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?
This ethical principle requires social workers to protect client information except in specific legal or safety situations.
What is confidentiality?
This is the theme for Social Work Week 2026.
What is uplift. defend. transform?
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?
This First Lady and former social worker championed human rights globally.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
This legislation, passed in 1935, expanded social welfare programs during the Great Depression.
What is the social security act?
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 social worker is a widely known author, and who focuses on research related to vulnerability and shame.
Who is Brene Brown?
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?
This percentage of social workers in the U.S. are women (approximately).
What is 80%?
This civil rights leader collaborated with social workers and advocated for economic justice and anti-poverty initiatives.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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?
March is both Social Work Month and this other national celebration.
What is Women's History Month?
This feeling is a common occupational hazard when helping professionals absorb clients’ trauma.
What is compassion fatigue?