National School Social Work Week
With compassion and expertise, school social workers provide invaluable support in navigating academic, personal, and social challenges.
Highlight how school social workers address student barriers to learning—partner with education vendors, mental health platforms, and HR/benefits providers to reach schools and districts with support solutions.
- Behind the scenes: what school social workers actually do to support student mental health and wellbeing
- Employers & benefits: how to recognize and support school social workers in your community
- Resource guide: mental health and life-skills tools schools use to support vulnerable students
For many social workers, school isn’t about just learning your primary education. While learning is an essential factor, social workers focus on the needs of the children in these school districts, such as hunger, homelessness, domestic violence, and mental health issues.
These factors can be barriers in learning, and social workers don’t only focus on serious matters, they can also provide help throughout the school districts to keep the students learning and active in their community. Social workers can teach students life skills and lessons on emotional intelligence, including coping skills on how to handle their home life and interact with the people around them.
However, many times this kind of social work can be underappreciated for what they do. The School Social Work Association of America thus created the holiday back in 2009 through the news reports showing how essential and vital social works can be in a school setting.
Since then, the SSWAA encourages people to celebrate this holiday as a way to say thank you to those social workers that help students get through their school years and be able to function in society as active members.
Throughout the first week of March, social workers talk about what they do to help the students in their community and give students and parents an opportunity to thank these social workers for what they do.