IASSW congratulates Prof. Vimla Nadkarni, Immediate Past President for NAPSWI Life Time Achievement Awards in 2018 NAPSWI is one of the largest organisations of professional social workers in India, have instituted NAPSWI Life Time Achievement Awards in 2013. NAPSWI feel honored that it has conferred this award in past years to the esteemed distinguished social work educators such as Prof...

Publication of IASSW Internationalizing social work education -Insights from leading figures across the globe By Gurid Aga Askeland and Malcolm Payne Special Offer for IASSW Members on E-publication of this book It’ll give 50% off the epub of Internationalizing Social Work Education until the end of March, 2019. IASSW Members will need to use code _______ at...

Prof. Annamaria Campanini IASSW President is visiting different parts of Latin America to involve schools in these area to participate in IASSW activities and increase the school membership from Latin America region. In Chile, Universidad de Valparaiso opened the IV conference on Clinical social work In Santiago. Prof. Annamaria Campanini met the Rector of INACAP...

Dear Colleagues, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, IASSW school member is organizing the EASSW 2019 Conference in Madrid. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CALL FOR ABSTRACTS–        Opens: July 6th, 2018. –        Closes: October 15th, 2018. For more details please contact: cc Carlos (eassw2019@ucm.es), the Conference Secretariat, as he is the person in charge of...

Cybercounselling Online, Level 1 September 14th – December 20th, 2018 This course is for experienced counselling practitioners who want to offer professional, ethical online counselling to their clients. We cover video, live text-chat and email-style communications methods. You will engage in hands-on text-based work with both asynchronous (secure email) and synchronous (chat) approaches. Registration Regular...

IASSW statement on the Supreme Court of India’s decision IASSW acknowledges the monumental judgment taken by the Honorary Supreme Court of India’s decision to scrap certain provisions under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalised homosexuality. In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court in India scrapped the controversial Section 377- a 158-year-old colonial...

DGSA Position Paper – Appeal for global solidarity and the right to asylum_July2018 Appeal for global solidarity and the safeguarding of the right to asylum 1 With deep concern, we witness the current developments in Germany’s asylum policy. The proposed changes are triggered by tremendous shifts in political and medial discourses, and we fear that...

IASSW Updates: July 2018 IASSW Archives: Newly Formed Archive Committee Lynne Healy, Chair IASSW’s history is well documented in its archive, held at the Social Welfare History Archive at the University of Minnesota Library in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States. Holdings that date back to the founding of the association in 1928 include official...

A message from IASSW President and Board on Disaster in Kerala, India To Indian Social Work Educators, As IASSW community we are thinking of the population that are struggling with the aftermath of the catastrophic flooding in Kerala, with more than 300 people death and more than 200.000 people displaced . Once again, we are facing...

Dear social work education community, Please forward this to your social work academic colleagues. If you have Wikipedia Editor experience, than this request is directed at you – please read the REQUEST below. I am the chair of the Standing Committee on the World Census of Social Work Programs for the International Association of Schools...