United Mine Workers

Social workers have a crucial part to play in improving mental health services and mental health outcomes for citizens. They bring a distinctive social and rights-based perspective to their work. Their advanced relationship-based skills, and their focus on personalization and recovery, can support people to make positive, self-directed change. Social workers are trained to work in partnership with people using services, their families and carers to optimize involvement and collaborative…

OD Tools for Family Businesses In addition to more action research and cases, OD practitioners also need practical tools in engaging in family businesses. Five tools are described below. 1. Where is Who? One of the most important issue in dealing with family business is where is who where. This has two dimensions. First where is who in the family? A geni (for genealogy or geneagram) simple tool to trace the family would be useful in this regard specially for family businesses in the…

disabilities, improving my overall knowledge on disability awareness and most importantly learning that I can make a positive impact in any social care field that I wish to pursue. I am fully aware that becoming successful, fully trained social care worker does not happen overnight but takes years of hard work and practice. However, seeing the positive impact that I can make of people's lives with my career is the inspiration I need to go on and succeed. It is a long journey to get where I want…

who are disabled or blind, or 65 years old or older to remain safely in their home. The services include house cleaning, shopping, cooking, laundry, grocery shopping and personal care. For the purpose of this assignment, I interviewed a social worker…

these qualities and will use them to the best of my ability to help the people I serve. After my classes are completed, I hope that I will have the knowledge and resources to build a career that will be fulfilling and satisfying. As a human service worker, I am going to help individuals who have mental health and substance abuse issues. Most of the people who will be joining this field will devote their energies to try to fix issues that are present now such as addiction, abuse, hunger, and…

Introduction: As part of my Writing for Managers course at the University of Maryland University College, our professor, Dr. Lawrence Clark, tasked us with writing a memo to a supervisor regarding our personal professional goals. I feel that this assignment is beneficial since I am close to finishing my BS degree in Social Science and will be looking for a job in the social services domain quite soon. In preparation for this memo, I reviewed Dr. Clark 's material regarding setting goals to…

thought it was an easy class. But she fell in love with the class and everything that social work involves. From after that class on she knew that she wanted to go into Social Work. She said “This was the turning point in my decision to become a Social Worker. I continued to complete my general studies requirements interspersed with Social Work…

The role of a social worker has many interpretations, but I believe a social worker is someone who provides vulnerable people a sense of support and understanding, while supplying them with a safe environment that promotes openness. A social worker promotes this sense of openness and support with individuals that are in need of assistance by, not only developing a personal connection, but also approaching each situation empathetically. These approaches are important because as a professional…

Individuals are diverse; this concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect. While working in the field of social work, as a social worker, it is important in understanding each individual’s character with respect to behavior, attitude, tolerance level and approach. When working with the League City Police Department Crime Victim Advocate, I have learned to recognize and respect each victim’s differences. The important aspect is understanding each colleague and clients and moving…

Whenever people use to ask me, “why do you want to be a social worker?” I would always reply with, “because I want to help people.” This then lead to the next infamous question, “well, what do social workers do?” and this was a question that stumped me. I always knew social workers were there to help other individuals in need but I never really knew exactly what they did. All people every really know of social workers are their stereotypes. I would constantly get asked, “are you going to be the…