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Social Work History Month 2021: Social Workers are Essential

Michigan Girl's Café

March is National Social Work History Month. The 2021 theme is " Social Workers are Essential.” From the NASW website : Social workers are essential to community well-being. As practitioners, social workers are trained to help people address personal and systemic barriers to optimal living.

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NASW News Hits May 2022

Social Workers Speak

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) reached a potential news audience of more than 860 million people in May, due to extensive coverage of the NASW Ohio Chapter’s successful legal push to get the town of Lebanon to not enforce an abortion ban and a Spanish language article on the states with the highest social work pay.

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Earn CE Credits for Reading Select NASW Press Books!

Social Work Blog

The third edition of Ethical Standards in Social Work by Frederic G. Reamer offers the social work profession the only in-depth analysis of the Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers. The appendix includes challenging ethics cases. CEUs for reading this title.

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News Items – February 2, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Olivia Knox is policy assistant for NASW-NYS: Report: Low salary contributes to NY social workers leaving field WAER A new report shows social workers are not being paid equal to similar professions. Many feel this is one piece of a larger puzzle contributing to social workers leaving the field.

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News Items – February 2, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Olivia Knox is policy assistant for NASW-NYS: Report: Low salary contributes to NY social workers leaving field WAER A new report shows social workers are not being paid equal to similar professions. Many feel this is one piece of a larger puzzle contributing to social workers leaving the field.

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News Items – March 3, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Social workers are the unsung heroes of the pandemic. Should social workers work with police? Across the state, law enforcement departments take varying approaches to integrating social workers into policing, but Goetz and other experts express concerns that it’s being done too hastily. The Washington Post.

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Key Components for Effective Social Work Assignments

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Photo by Arisa Chattasa on Unsplash As social work educators, we create assignments to give our students opportunities to learn about the profession and develop competencies needed for social practice. Assignments also offer a way to assess if students are growing in their understanding of how to be professional social workers.