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A New Social Work Cadre to Offer Services to Tanzania’s Most Vulnerable...
I wanted to share some thoughts on an inspiring initiative undertaken by the Tanzanian government to create a new social worker cadre to care for and support the country’s most neglected and vulnerable...
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Expanding iHRIS to Support the Social Services Workforce
This blog was originally posted on theCapacityPlus website.When we think of health care workers, we tend to think of doctors, nurses, midwives, and the like. We originally developed the iHRIS Suite to...
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Overcoming Obstacles to Accessing Mental Health Services in Ethiopia
“What do you see as one major obstacle to people seeking treatment that may be needed, and what advice or suggestion do you have to help overcome that obstacle, whether for the person, family member,...
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Greater Support for Social Service Workers Leads to Better Care for Children
This post originally appeared on the Frontline Health Workers Coalition blog.A young boy—we’ll call him Mani—was living on the streets of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He had...
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Social Service Workers Address Ebola’s Widespread Social Impacts
This post was originally published by the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance. Photo courtesy of Social Workers Sierra Leone.The number of confirmed cases of Ebola is quickly climbing past 6,200....
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Courage to Change Child and Youth Lives
“My dream has always been to work with children,” said Siphiwe Sikhasa, between games at the soccer field at the Safe Park in Grabouw, South Africa.Just 45 minutes outside of cosmopolitan Cape Town,...
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Haiti’s Need for Mental Health Services, Before and After the Quake
When people find out that I experienced the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, they are understandably curious.But when I tell the story, even five years later, my heart rate rises. I...
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Social Service Workforce Week Celebrates Community-Level Workers
Community health workers can have a tremendous impact on health and wellbeing, particularly for the most vulnerable among us. Community-level social service workers are a key part of keeping children...
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Let’s Keep the Keepers
“We are our brother’s keeper,” says Mohammed Adamu Adangba. Many of us have uttered that phrase. Adangba, a social service worker in Nigeria, means it.“I grew up in a typical Nigerian community—a...
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Once an At-Risk Youth, Thembi Becomes a Child & Youth Care Worker
After Thembi’s* parents passed away from an illness when she was in Grade 11, she and her brother, in Grade 8 at the time, moved in with their grandmother.It was not an easy transition for any of...
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Social Service Workers Can Help End Violence against Women
The numbers of women and girls subjected to violence are staggering. Estimates suggest that one in three women globally have experienced either physical or sexual violence at some point in their...
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