Social Work 101
Social work month is always during this month.
What is March?
It takes this number of social workers to change a lightbulb.
What is one?
*but the lightbulb has to want to change
The group of clients or client systems for which a social worker is responsible to serve.
What is case load?
I am one of the first women to receive a Nobel peace prize in 1931.
Who is Jane Addams?
Registered Social Workers with the OCSWSSW must complete the Continuing Competence Program on this basis.
What is an Annual?
This is the theme for Social Work Week 2026.
What is Care. Insight. Together. ?
This social worker said, "I do this for the money".
What is No Social Worker Ever?
A technical word for a family tree and used as a means of helping families identify significant family members and how they relate to one another.
What is a genogram?
She was a Canadian civil rights activist, a female POC and prominent business owner in Nova Scotia in the 1940s. She now appears on the $10 Canadian bank note.
Who is Viola Desmond?
This was the original form of social work intervention, in the profession’s earliest stages of development?
What is individual casework?
This is is one of the largest membership organizations of professional social workers in the world.
Sometimes I have to remind people that I am a social worker and not this type of worker.
An ethical principle that recognizes the rights and needs of clients to be free to make their own choices and decisions.
What is self-determination?
This Canadian female Social Worker co- founded the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society in 1998 to support Indigenous children and families across Canada.
Who is Cindy Blackstock?
In this movie, the central characters Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust live in Headquarters, the control centre inside Rileys mind.
This is included as a part of the vital role that school social workers play between home and school.
What is community?
(will also accept partnership, communication)
Being a social worker is easy. It's like riding this.
What is a bike?
*except the bike is on fire, you're on fire, everything is on fire.
The act of intervening on behalf of an individual, group, or community to represent, defend, and support access to resources and/or services, and to address structural obstacles or barriers that restrict civil rights and principles of social justice.
What is advocacy?
These two women have been DPCDSB Chiefs of Service for the Social Work Department from 2019 to present.
Who are Yulanda Julien and Pina Grosso?
This Canadian association promotes research and scholarly publications to foster an understanding of the profession among the public and to safeguard standards. Principal professional journals in Canada include: Canadian Social Work/Travail Social Canadien, Canadian Social Work Review/Revue canadienne de travail social and Service Social and Intervention.
What is the Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW)?
The ethical principals of service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence are based on this?
What is social work’s core values?
A holiday movie about child abandonment and multiple agency failings.
An increase in perceived self-efficacy, resulting from a belief in the ability to positively influence ones’ environment and improve personal circumstances.
What is empowerment?
Dorothea Palmer, social worker, is best known for being a change agent in the area of Education, Women’s rights, Birth control activism. True or False?
What is True?
During the GREAT DEPRESSION, only 2 SW programs opened at the University of British Columbia (1928) and the other here.
What is the Université de Montréal (1939)?