Tag: advocacy

Feb 27, 2023 — NSCSW members are invited to explore strategies for integrating advocacy within social work practice.

Feb 17, 2023 — NSCSW members are invited to explore strategies for integrating advocacy within social work practice.

Feb 8, 2023 — NSCSW members are invited to explore strategies for integrating advocacy within social work practice.

March 25, 2022 — Participants in Advocacy Day and other interested community members are invited to sign an open letter that will be sent to government leaders.

March 30, 2022 — NSCSW closing celebration for National Social Work Month. Honouring the legacy of Alexa McDonough with Senator Dr. Wanda Thomas Bernard.

March 16, 2022 — It’s National Social Work Month! Please join the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers for our first Advocacy Day.

20 October 2021 — Save the date for our First Annual Awards Gala. Special guest speaker Dr. Ingrid Waldron.

Part of practising from an anti-oppressive lens is continually asking ourselves how the intergenerational effects of colonization and slavery have impacted our own perspective and bias, and how we can address the resulting behaviours.

National Social Work Month is an opportunity to reflect on how we enact the values of our profession within the communities where we live and practice. This month, the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers, in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS), released a new report titled “Creating the future we all deserve: A social policy framework for Nova Scotia.”

On Monday, January 21st, 2019 the Nova Scotia Government & General Employees Union (NSGEU) and the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers (NSCSW) launched a campaign encouraging Nova Scotians to write to the Premier to demand an increase in spending on social programs including Child Welfare in the next provincial budget. The campaign #childwelfareonthebrink feature… Read more »