What Is Social Work?

The OASW is always looking after your interests by promoting an understanding on the part of the public as to just what social work is.  Take a look at the following Youtube videos:

 

Social Workers Help People Get Back on Track

The theme of the upcoming 2012 Social Work Week is: “Social Workers Help People Get Back on Track”.  lt will be celebrated March 5-11.

This theme was selected to highlight the significant role that social workers play in helping people deal with day-to-day problems and with overcoming barriers that prevent them from leading meaningful and productive lives. Social workers help people of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds to create better lives for themselves and their families.

Social workers offer hope, grounded in practical problem-solving expertise.   In fact, our profession believes in the boundless human potential for people to make positive change in their lives.  They focus on people’s strengths and take into account the social, emotional and economic factors that can negatively impact health and social well-being.  Social workers also advocate for change to improve social conditions.

Few professions match social work for the wide variety of settings in which they work and the range of services they provide.  Social workers work as front-line practitioners, clinicians, managers, supervisors and administrators.  They are also therapists, educators and researchers.  They work at all levels of government and some hold political office.

Social Work Week provides an opportunity each year for social workers to promote and celebrate their profession and the life-changing work that they do in every community.  On behalf of the Huronia Highlands branch of the Ontario Association of Social Workers, I wish to express our appreciation for all the work that social workers do.

Jill Lamourie MacIsaac MSW/RSW

Reasons to join the OASW

There are so many reasons to join the OASW.  Here are a few of them.

OASW Scholarship recipient for 2012