Social Service Workforce Week
Social Service Workforce Week 2020
Date: October 26-30, 2020
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. The 2020 Social Service Workforce Week highlighted the many essential roles of the social service workforce in the lives of individuals, families and communities. Throughout the week, daily blogs, worker profiles and new resources reviewed how the workforce is essential during COVID-19 and for transforming children’s care, protection of children, and delivering mental health and psychosocial support. A new Guidance Manual on Strengthening Supervision of the Social Service Workforce, developed by the Alliance’s Interest Group on Supervision, was also released and a webinar was held to share promising practices in supervision.
View content from the week below.
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Content from the Week
Blog Posts
- Day 1: During COVID-19 and Beyond, Recognizing the Essential Role of the Social Service Workforce, by Hugh Salmon, Director, Global Social Service Workforce Alliance
- Day 2: Supervision – An essential ingredient in sustaining effective practice, by Dr. Ian Milligan, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, CELCIS, University of Strathclyde
- Day 3: A lifetime of lessons: What being a member of the essential workforce transforming care for children has taught me, by Sully Santos de Ucles, Maestral International and Changing the Way We Care
- Day 4: Rising to Tomorrow’s Challenges: The Power of the Social Service Workforce on the Frontlines to Protect Children, by Cornelius Williams, Associate Director and Global Chief of Child Protection, UNICEF Programme Division
- Day 5: Delivering Mental Health and Psychosocial Support – Global examples of the essential role of the social service workforce in supporting refugees and migrants, by Nicole Brown, Communications & Advocacy Manager, Global Social Service Workforce Alliance
