Advocating for the Social Service Workforce
Obtaining Political and Financial Support
The Alliance has developed the following tools and resources to assist in your advocacy efforts.
Global Advocacy Toolkit for the Social Service Workforce
This toolkit provides advocates with a common set of tools and messages with which to bring about greater political and programmatic priority for strengthening the social service workforce. The Toolkit includes lessons from behavioral science and original research on the most effective ways to communicate to policy and decision-makers. It includes case studies, stories, fact sheets and infographics.
Key Messages for Advocating for the Social Service Workforce
The Alliance’s Interest Group on Advocacy developed a set of key messages specifically for advocating to donors, policymakers, media, the general public and other social service professionals about the importance and value of the social service workforce. We encourage you to make use of these key messages for each specific audience.
A Call to Action for Strengthening the Workforce to Better Protect Children and Achieve the SDGs
This Call to Action makes recommendations at the country and global level for governments to initiate, lead and engage in dialogue with partners in order to strengthen the workforce and improve the lives of children and families. We encourage you to share the Call to Action with national governments and stakeholder groups.
Other Opportunities for Advocacy
Using the Alliance network as a platform for coming together across disciplines, organizations, countries and regions, we can all do more together than we can alone. Stay tuned for Alliance-hosted advocacy events, such as Social Service Workforce Week. Be sure to also follow us and like or retweet our content on X, Facebook and LinkedIn.
We also encourage you to find opportunities to elevate the importance of a strong social service workforce. Conferences, UN days dedicated to specific topics, worker appreciation days, World Social Work Day and Social Service Workforce Week are just a few of the many annual events that can be a springboard for local advocacy throughout the year.
