Social Work Practice: Advocating Social Justice and Change

This module focuses on defining social work as a profession, exploring roles social workers perform across settings, examining core social work skills at the micro, mezzo, and macro system levels and addressing social work professional ethics.

This module covers core frameworks and approaches that guide social workers' change efforts, including ecological systems perspective, strengths approach, empowerment, social justice lens, cultural humility framework, and evidence-informed practice perspective.

This module explores the history of social work as a field, using an interactive timeline to outline how different people, events, and policies have shaped U.S. based social work over the past 100 years. It also covers current-day social workers and social work's "Grand Challenges."

This module explores the connection between social work and social justice, introducing the Privilege, Oppression, Social Justice, and Diversity (P.O.D.S.) framework. It covers key concepts like intersectionality and praxis, and how social workers center justice in their work.