Social Service Workforce Week
Social Service Workforce Week 2023
Date: October 17-22, 2023
Theme: Making the Case for Investing in Strengthening the Social Service Workforce Across Sectors
Overview: Every year, the Alliance hosts Social Service Workforce Week to advocate for social service workers and raise awareness of workforce strengthening efforts across the globe. In 2023, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Alliance, the week celebrated global-, regional- and country-level progress in strengthening the social service workforce over the past decade. It also explored remaining and emerging challenges in relation to strengthening the workforce and put forth a vision of what the next decade of social service workforce strengthening may look like.
View content from the week below.
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Content from the Week
Day 1: Launching a Global Movement Around Social Service Workforce Strengthening
- Putting Together Puzzle Pieces, by Maury Mendenhall, Senior Advisor on Orphans and Vulnerable Children, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of HIV/AIDS
- What a Small Group of Committed Citizens Can Achieve: Reflecting on 10-years of Impact by the Alliance, by Kathryn Conley Wehrmann, Global Social Service Workforce Alliance Steering Committee Chair
Day 2: Guiding Efforts to Plan, Develop and Support the Social Service Workforce
- Envisioning the Future of Social Service Workforce Planning: A Data-Driven Approach, by Alex Collins, Senior Technical Advisor, Data for Impact (D4I) project, Palladium
- The Power and Potential of Social Work in South Africa, by Dr. Vishanthie Sewpaul, PhD, MSW, Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, and Professor II, University of Stavanger, Norway
- Malaysian “Heroes Among Us” Campaign Drives Support for Social Workers, by UNICEF Malaysia
- Can Paid Internships Save Social Work?, by Pilar O. Bonilla, MSW, and Elana Metz, MSW/MPH
Day 3: Strengthening Systems that Improve the Well-Being of Children and Families
- The Story of Efua: How Ghana’s Integrated Social Services (ISS) Provide Comprehensive Assistance to Child Survivors of Sexual Violence, by Young Joo Lee, Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Ghana
- Harnessing the Community and Leaders to Protect Children in Timor-Leste, by Child Frontiers
- Impact of Case Conferencing on an HIV-affected Youth in Zimbabwe, by Miriam Chadzingwa and Lispoh Rugaro, FACT Zimbabwe
Day 4: Equipping the Workforce to Meet the Needs of all Populations
- Equipping the Social Service Workforce to Meet the Needs of Children with Disabilities, by Lucy Marie Richardson, disability inclusive child protection expert, lead author of UNICEF’s DICP Competency Framework.
- Breaking the Silence: Weekly Campaigns Shaping Mental Health Awareness in Nepal, by Aishworya Shrestha, Deputy Chairperson at Antardhoni Nepal
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