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by Jim McCaffery, Chair, Global Social Service Workforce Alliance Steering Committee Welcome to Day Five of Social Service Workforce Week! This week, as you probably know, we have been…
By Stela Grigoras, PhD, Director, Partnership for Every Child, Moldova, and Florence Martin, Director, Better Care Network “The work of the community social worker is very important. The better…
by Carol Bales, communications officer, IntraHealth International Mohammed Adamu Adangba, a social service worker in Nigeria, was getting his bachelor’s degree when a professor approached him about helping children…
by Grace Mayanja, Chief of Party, USAID SUNRISE-OVC Project, Uganda Orphaned as a child in a community heavily affected by HIV/AIDS, Doreen was defiled and became pregnant at 15,…
Welcome to Day One of Social Service Workforce Week! This week, we are celebrating the work of community level social service workers. Building support for community level workers …
On the final day of the National Association of Child Care Workers (NACCW) biennial conference in Cape Town, South Africa, the youth delegation took the stage chanting, “We are the…
Meet Grace Kozak, Alliance Summer MSW Intern Grace Kozak is a Master of Social Work student at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, studying community organizing…
By Yanica Faustin by Yanica Faustin When people find out that I experienced the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, they are understandably curious. But when…
“My dream has always been to work with children,” said Siphiwe Sikhasa, between playing at the soccer field at the Safe Park in Grabouw, South Africa. Just 45 minutes…
From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 to the most recent annual gathering of social workers on March 23, 2015, the United Nations has brought people together along…
“The social service workforce plays a critical role in our [UNAIDS] mission of zero new HIV infections, zero AIDS-related deaths and zero AIDS-related stigma and discrimination,” said David Chipanta, Senior…
Roundtable Discussion on Faculty Recruitment and Retention Social Service Workforce Strengthening Webinar Series Tuesday, September 23, 2014 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM (Washington), 2:30 –…
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