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As social workers, we operate in a society characterized by power imbalances that affect us all. These power imbalances are based on age, class, ethnicity, gender identity, geographic location, health, ability, race, sexual identity and income. We see personal troubles as inextricably linked to oppressive structures. We believe that social workers must be actively involved in the understanding and transformation of injustices in social institutions and in the struggles of people to maximize control over their own lives.

SW4W03, Child Welfare course offered at Six Nations Polytechnic - starting Sept. 2012

For course content and registration details, click here

School speaks out on the loss of the National Council of Welfare

Letter to Prime Minister Harper.
Newspaper article, Policy Plan to Hide Poverty, Inequality

Beyond Caring Labour to Provisioning Work

Co-authored by Stephanie Baker Collins and colleagues, this new book from the University of Toronto Press revisits conceptually and methodologically the work women do in sustaining others and community and offers direction for much-needed change in public policy.

Randy Jackson appointed to Aboriginal Pre-Doctoral Fellowship leading to
Assistant Professorship

We’re delighted to announce the appointment of Randy Jackson to this position, jointly located in the School of Social Work and Department of Health Aging & Society. Randy brings to both programs extensive experience as a community-based researcher and advocate; he served for many years as the Director of Research at the Aboriginal AIDS Network, and has an already distinguished record of publication and leadership in related scholarly and activist communities.

Occupy Wall Street: Social Work Responses

is a research project initiated by Social Work Action Research McMaster (SWARM) to explore the experiences and responses of the social work community in relation to the occupy protests.
Follow this link for more on the purpose, process, risks involved and note especially that posting to the site means you consent to take part in the study.

Social Work Competencies

A Critique and Letter to the Community link

Flash Mob

Follow this link and see a video of the flash mob organized by a group in Sandra Preston’s SW 4J03 class on Social Movements and Social Change, aimed at raising awareness of poverty and its damaging effects.

Our BSW and MSW programs are accredited by the
Canadian Association for Social Work Education. Interested In Social Work?