When a wildfire cut off the mountain town of Glenwood Springs from food, fuel, and medical care, Rachel Forbes saw firsthand ...

Social work extends beyond the simple management of social suffering to a comprehensive approach to care. The most vulnerable ...

Social work is a broad profession that seeks to help people interact more effectively with one another and with the environment. As our society has become increasingly complex, people in both urban ...

The social work profession seeks to identify and alleviate the individual and social causes of problems related to meeting basic human needs, and helps people interact effectively with one another and ...

A clinical social worker who concentrates on medical and public health issues largely deals with the social aspects of our health. He or she is an advocate for patients and can explain health care ...

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

Meet Omar, 22, a social worker for a local authority. Find out more about his job and journey into the role. Part of our Bitesize world of work series. I help empower children to have their voice ...

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 ...