Published on : April 24, 2020
About Social Work Responds
The Association of Social Work Boards, the Council on Social Work Education, and the National Association of Social Workers are committed to collaborating on the range of issues affecting the social work profession and the people and communities we serve in this ever-changing and unsettling environment created by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.
Follow Up
Based on previous Social Work Responds e-mails and calls to action, our organizations want to share critical follow-up information.
- CSWE has a representative on the National Advisory Board for the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC). Funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the MHTTC lists products and resources that can be useful when coping with the effects of widespread public health crises. Visit their resources here.
“We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming…”
For the past 4 weeks, ASWB, CSWE, and NASW have come together to share Social Work Responds with you. Each week, we communicate what we’ve learned from our respective memberships about social workers’ COVID-19 related issues and concerns. In doing so, we hope to inform stakeholders and share our solutions, best practices, and ideas about dealing with those issues.
Although it has been gratifying to be recognized as an “essential” workforce in addressing and alleviating the impact of the pandemic, this role brings into sharp relief the need to balance our professional responsibilities and duties with self-preservation. Not only is “safe, competent, and ethical” the way we are called to practice as social workers, educators, and regulators, but this phrase also mandates that we care for ourselves to provide the best care to others.
Like you, we have been avid consumers of COVID-19 news at national, regional, and local levels so that we may provide support and leadership to the profession and highlight the distinctive value social workers bring to the nation’s pandemic response (and beyond).
This week, we would like to invite you to share how COVID-19 is affecting you as a social worker. We want to better understand the challenges you face and how you have responded to these unprecedented times with creativity and grit—because that’s what social workers do!
Please complete this brief survey, which will guide our future actions and communications.
Thank you for all that you are doing,
