Category: Reflections on Practice
The Stories We Tell Ourselves Part 4: School Social Work and White Womanhood
The recent violence of White women has made the news and has ignited a wider conversation about...
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves Part 3: School Social Work and School Segregation
Racial segregation impacts resource distribution, access to opportunity, and democratic...
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves Part 2: School Social Work, Immigration and Citizenship
In 2020 39,000 adults and 3,600 unaccompanied children were detained in over 218 immigration...
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves Part 1: School Social Work and Casework
Since the professionalization of school social work in the Progressive Era direct practice has been shaped by what was considered the ‘best’ or most legitimate forms of scientific evidence. In this article, I will examine how Progressive Era notions of science were rooted in the White supremacist eugenics movement. Additionally, I will explore how eugenics ideology impacted casework, the standard method of practice during the early 20th century.
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Tragedy, Trauma and Triumph: School Social Work during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The “triumph” during these last two school years was found in the little victories that I witnessed. I found myself falling back on the basics of social work, breaking down barriers, respecting the client and family, looking at situations that were fraught with difficulty, and continually finding new ways to help students succeed.
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Write for SSWN: Call For Articles For 2021-22
What’s your article idea? What do you want our readers to know more about? We’re looking for a variety of work here, and here are some examples based on previous work we’ve published–submit your ideas to us and let us help you publish your own on SSWN this year.
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“in this program I found a cohort:” SMHAPP Students Tell Their Story (Part 3)
“ I was feeling pretty burned out at school, you know, working as a school social worker. I was feeling like I was spinning my wheels and I didn’t have. I felt like I needed support I needed more tools. And so in this program I did find that I found a cohort, I found a cohort of other school social workers that have been extremely supportive and then I also learned so much about evidence based and evidence informed programs.”
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“MY FAVORITE PART ABOUT THE SMHAPP WAS THE DIRECT APPLICABILITY OF ALL OF THE COURSE CONTENT”– SMHAPP Students Tell Their Story (Part 2)
I want to share that the SMHAPP was a great addition to what I already had with my MSW. What this program helped me not only with all the material
that is very practical for me to use in practice, is the that just seeing, hearing and listening to what social work is and how big of an impact we can actually have was a mentality change for me. I would encourage anyone to go for it and do the SMHAPP because the one year we have in internship practice in a school is not enough to learn everything there is. So again, I felt like I needed more. And like others said it’s not just something else I had to do. It was a pleasure to do these things.
