by Linda May Grobman, MSW, ACSW, LSW
Social Work Month! It's a great time for a month-long celebration with The New Social Worker. Please join us! First and foremost, I want to say THANK YOU for all you do, today and every day.
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This year, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) has designated “Empowering Social Workers” as the theme for Social Work Month. What does this theme mean to you? When I think about this theme, I think the empowerment can be that of the social worker or that of the client, individual, family, group, organization, or society that social workers help to become empowered.
The New Social Worker Social Work Month Project 2024
For The New Social Worker’s Social Work Month Project 2024, I asked our columnists to address the empowerment theme. You will see their messages in our 2024 Social Work Month series throughout the month. Watch our website, Facebook page, and LinkedIn group for these new posts.
Also, for this Social Work Month, I have put together a month-long calendar of writings from The New Social Worker that relate to power, empowerment, and Social Work Month.
Social Work Month 2024 Calendar
Download the calendar, and use the links to read each daily offering. You, your team, or your class can use it for a one-a-day dose of social work inspiration and EMPOWERMENT.
I have left the weekends open for your own use! Please note, the new articles on Tuesdays will be updated with links as we add them. And watch for our special Social Work Month YouTube video conversation with The New Social Worker columnists!
I have listed the calendar links below, by day. Feel free to come back to this page each day for your daily empowering dose.
- Social Work Month Project 2024 Welcome and Thank You (you are HERE)
- Free Day
- Free Day: Watch for our special Social Work Month video conversation with our columnists later this month!
- The Art of Adaptability—The Social Worker’s Superpower
- A Power-Full Message About Self-Care as Paramount for Empowerment
- Social Workers: 3 Key “Powers” We Develop
- Empowered: An Ode to the Power of Journaling
- What I Wish I Had Known: Burnout and Self-Care in Our Social Work Profession
- Free Day
- Free Day
- The Power of Podcasting in Social Work Education
- Empowerment: A Social Worker in Environment Perspective AND Conversations on Social Work Careers: Happy Social Work Month From The New Social Worker Columnists! (video)
- Social Workers: 5 Ways To Raise Each Other Up
- Empowering Clients Means Empowering Ourselves First
- 10 Essentials Social Workers Must Know About Hope
- Free Day
- Free Day
- Poetry: The Power of Essential Social Workers
- World Social Work Day 2024—Buen Vivir: A Shared Future for Transformative Change Requires Expansive Self-Care
- A Letter to Social Work Leaders
- Social Work Is Empowering
- Open Letter to Social Work Professors Who Love Social Work Month
- Free Day
- Free Day
- 7 Powerful Morning Routine Starters for Social Workers
- Empowering Character and Maturity to Resolve Societal Burnout
- Does Social Work Matter?
- Turn Your Negative Self-Talk Into An Opportunity for Empowerment
- Chestnuts
- Free Day
- Free Day
Social Work Month Through the Years
To explore Social Work Month through the past 10 years, click on a year below to see our Social Work Month Project series for that year. There are so many "hidden" gems in these—I hope you will take time this month (or any time) to read and be encouraged by them.
Get Ready!
Social workers serve others while respecting the dignity and worth of the person, with competence, with integrity, with a recognition of the importance of human relationships, and with a dedication to social justice. These core values are always timely for us as social work professionals. Social Work Month is a great time to recognize and highlight this commitment.
Please watch The New Social Worker’s website throughout March, as we post new items. Follow us on Facebook (click “Like” and then “Following” and “See first”) or subscribe to our publications, to make sure you don't miss anything!
Again... Thank you. Please join me.
In harmony, Linda
Linda May Grobman, MSW, ACSW, LSW, is the publisher, editor, and founder of The New Social Worker® magazine.