What is a School Social Worker?
What is a School Social Worker?
What is a School Social Worker?
School social workers assist students within the academic setting by providing strategic services that identify and address social, emotional, and environmental issues that interfere with the educational process.
School social workers assist students within the academic setting by providing strategic services that identify and address social, emotional, and environmental issues that interfere with the educational process.
Working with parents/guardians, teachers, school administrators, and community based resources, the school social worker implements strategies that promote students’ positive school adjustment. They address the social and psychological issues that can block academic progress.
Working with parents/guardians, teachers, school administrators, and community based resources, the school social worker implements strategies that promote students’ positive school adjustment. They address the social and psychological issues that can block academic progress.
Through counseling, crisis intervention, and prevention programs, they help young people overcome the difficulties in their lives, and as a result, give them a better chance at succeeding in school. School social workers are a part of the Student and Family Services division for the school system. Each social worker is assigned to the school(s) based upon identified needs of the student population.
Through counseling, crisis intervention, and prevention programs, they help young people overcome the difficulties in their lives, and as a result, give them a better chance at succeeding in school. School social workers are a part of the Student and Family Services division for the school system. Each social worker is assigned to the school(s) based upon identified needs of the student population.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
School Social workers at a minimum have a Master's of Social Work (MSW) from an accredited school of social work with a minimum of 60 graduate semester hours; a minimum of six graduate semester hours in education; and have completed a supervised practicum or field experience of a minimum of 400 clock hours in an accredited school discharging the duties of a school social worker as well as a School Social Worker (Pupil Personnel) license by the Virginia Department of Education.
School Social workers at a minimum have a Master's of Social Work (MSW) from an accredited school of social work with a minimum of 60 graduate semester hours; a minimum of six graduate semester hours in education; and have completed a supervised practicum or field experience of a minimum of 400 clock hours in an accredited school discharging the duties of a school social worker as well as a School Social Worker (Pupil Personnel) license by the Virginia Department of Education.
Further information on services provided by School Social Workers can be found at the following link: http://www.sswaa.org/
Further information on services provided by School Social Workers can be found at the following link: http://www.sswaa.org/