Western Michigan University

School of Social Work

In the Western Michigan University (WMU), College of Health and Human Services, School of Social Work, Masters of Social Work (MSW) Program, we value scientific inquiry, service, integrity, ethics, ...
Community Care

Are independent social workers better able to defend core values?

Last month an independent social worker raised the spectre of a two-tier workforce, divided between more experienced self-employed and the less experienced employed practitioners. Helen Ogilvy, ...
The Business Journals

The six core values of social work and how to apply them to workplace culture

Tim Tiller is CEO of MyTek, an AZ managed IT services company that provides economical enterprise-level IT solutions to Arizona SMBs. To continue reading this content ...
Community Care

Good supervision, strong values and luck: three social workers look at what's kept them in the profession

It was heart-breaking to read the experience of one newly qualified social worker in Community Care a while ago. Here was a social worker apparently done-in after less than a year in the profession, ...