Social Worker Safety
The 2004 NASW Workforce Study inquired about a variety of practice issues, including workplace safety. Forty four percent of survey respondents indicated that they face issues threatening their personal safety at work. Of these, an alarming one third felt their employers did not pay sufficient attention to their on-the-job safety.
Here’s a link to the […]
Student Loan Forgiveness for Social Workers
Here’s an article by Elizabeth Weiss McGolerick that may interest some of you:
Cash-Back Rewards Loan Forgiveness Programs Lure Social Service Grads
The article makes mention of several loan forgiveness programs that apply to social workers.
Social Worker Salary
By now you’ve probably heard about the NASW Workforce Study from 2004. One of the variables they examined was social work salaries. Here’s a link to a summary of their findings:
More Money—Less Money: Factors Associated with the Highest and Lowest Social Work Salaries
http://workforce.socialworkers.org/whatsnew/salaryreport.pdf
This report provides data for licensed social workers who are employed full-time in […]
