Tag: social work ethics

The 2020 African Heritage Month theme, The Ties that Bind: Faith, Family and Community, recognizes the essential traits that sustain the strength, resiliency and togetherness of the African Nova Scotian community. For social workers, African Heritage Month is also an important time to reflect on the urgent and continued work that is needed to create full inclusion and belonging in Nova Scotia.

Ethical behaviour is at the core of social work practice. It guides our actions and is part of everyday decision-making.

All social workers associated with the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers must complete five hours of professional development in social work ethics over a five year period.

Social workers are consistently faced with ethical dilemmas in practice. This train-the-trainer session is a small-group discussion on ethics and the struggles that social work practitioners are experiencing.

Connecting Nova Scotia social workers with their colleagues, and with the people they have the honour to work with, learn from, and walk alongside.