Social Work Month Shines Spotlight on Profession of Hope

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by odd_boi_out

I'll be graduating with my MSW in June. Cool to see other social workers here!

Congrats on graduating! What kind of work did you get into?

Originally Posted by Kobi

To my colleagues, thank you for continuing to be beacons of hope in this troubled world.

Thanks, Kobi. I appreciate you bumping this thread each year!

Originally Posted by femmepacker

Wow. How cool. Worked in substance abuse, trauma, Employee Assistance, adoption, inpatient and outpatient psych, directed programs for LGBTQ, program manager, adjunct teaching and now I can say I am paying it forward.

For the past four years in full time social work education. Part of team that created a Newly accredited BSSW program. We are currently getting ready to go into candidacy for NEW program and have been appointed Director of Field Education and will also continue to teach.

Respect and support for all my frontline colleagues. I love social work.

Well, now, someone can't focus on just one thing.... ;-)

Truth be told, I would love to shift to try something else in social work, but now that I am firmly in outpatient therapy (20 years), the drop in salary would just be too great to swallow!

Don't get me wrong, I love what I do and have had an opportunity to do lots of different things in outpatient psych (run various programs for the severely mentally ill), but it would be fun to do something outside of psych (like maybe LGBT programming of some sort).

Damn mortgage!