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 School Social Work Week 2021 theme is the same as it was in 2020.
What is Beacon of Hope?
(..School Social Workers – Lighting the Way)
This is the theme for Social Work Month 2021.
What is Social Workers Are Essential?
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?
Born in Richmond, VA on March 24, 1912, I am a social worker and civil rights activist, affectionately called “the godmother of the civil rights movement” by President Obama.
Who is Dorothy I. Height?
As the overseer of twenty-three elementary schools in Henrico County, she developed the first in-service training program for Black teachers and worked on improving the curriculum of the schools. She has an HCPS school named after her.
Who is Virginia Randolph?
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?
I began my journey as a women's rights and civil rights activist, working as a social worker, teacher, and lecturer. I am known for my Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Color Purple.
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?
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?
I am the first Democratic woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, the first woman to win a statewide election in Maryland, and the longest serving woman in the history of Congress.
Who is Barbara Mikulski?
In the early 1970s this state department officially recognized the school social worker and established accompanying endorsement requirements for practice in the public schools.
What is the Virginia Department of Education?
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?
I was involved in expanding school access for black children, and worked with Jane Addams to oppose the establishment of segregated schools in Chicago.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This facility of higher education just passed a School Social Work certificate program!
What is Kutztown University?