Hospital social work is an essential component in contemporary healthcare, tasked with addressing the psychosocial determinants of health. Social workers in hospital settings provide a broad spectrum ...

Think about the last time your family faced a crisis. Maybe it was financial stress after a job loss, the struggle to care for an aging parent, or helping a teenager through mental health challenges.

Social work emerged as a profession in the early 20th century to promote the well-being and quality of life for all persons in society. Today, social workers continue to advocate in the public arena ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s recent decision to reclassify social worker master and doctorate degrees as “nonprofessional” fundamentally misrepresents what we do as professionals, the complexity ...

Social work and African and African American studies double major Maxwell Johnson spent his fall semester serving at the ...

Ariel Golnick works with a client, as a social worker for Avenidas. Courtesy of Michelle Shinseki. Local Avenidas social workers Kelly Ilnicki and Ariel Golnick are at very different points in their ...

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The Peoria Unified School District passed a policy requiring all social workers and mental health counselors to hold unrestricted state certifications and licenses. The new policy goes into effect on ...