Social and community service managers' work can take a number of shapes: They might work directly with a specific community, such as the homeless or the seriously ill, and seek to identify ...

Lutheran Family and Children’s Services organization celebrates social workers, highlighting the crucial role social workers play in strengthening families across Missouri. “Our social workers are the ...

She's a community health worker with Montefiore Health System. Using her own experiences and knowledge of the community, she fills the gaps between medical care and social services. "A lot of ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently established the Community Health Worker Act to give community health workers improved ...

In one of the most impoverished areas of Seoul, South Korea, residents live in precarious conditions: tiny micro-units often ...

community education, informal counseling, social support and advocacy. CHWs work in all geographic settings, including rural, urban and metropolitan areas, border regions (colonias), and the Native ...

In 2015, the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice received funding from the Office ... this OVC grant funded two pilot projects at the Center: the Community Health Worker Peer (CHWP) project and ...

Share inspiring stories, from social workers, celebrities and people with lived experience, about the difference that social work can make. Enable social workers to champion one another through our My ...

A researcher spent a year living in a jjokbang-chon, an extremely impoverished neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea. While there, he calculated residents' carbon footprints, finding they contribute much ...