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Forensic Social Work

Famcare

As counselors they may provide psychosocial counseling, group counseling or mediation services. They may be employed across a wide variety of settings such as court systems, mental health agencies, rehabilitation centers, correctional facilities, hospitals, child and family agencies, prisons, and faith-based institutions.

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A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19

Social Work Synergy

They go about their work in the backgrounds of organizations that are meant to do other things: in hospitals that are meant to save lives, in schools that are meant to educate children. Before I became a social work professor, I did casework in hospitals, child welfare agencies, crisis hotlines, and in the Veteran’s Administration.