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  • Home
  • About
    • Advocacy & Legislation
    • Awards & Scholarships
    • Board of Directors
    • Committees >
      • NASW Foundation - Hawai'i Chapter Fund
      • History of Social Work in Hawai'i Project
    • 2021 Conference >
      • Past Conferences >
        • 2018 Conference Presentations
    • Ethics
    • Governance >
      • Branch & Committee Resources
    • Island Branches >
      • Kaua'i Branch
      • Molokai Branch
      • Maui Branch
      • Hawai'i Island Branch
    • Newsletters
    • Social Work Awards Gala
  • Membership
  • Continuing Ed.
    • CE requirements
    • Upcoming CE opportunities
    • CE Law
    • Continuing Education Approval Program
  • Licensing
    • License Applications
    • Licensing Exams
    • Licensing Preparation Courses
    • License Renewal
    • LCSW supervision
    • Transfering your license in/out of state
  • Store
  • Employment & Classifieds
  • Find a Social Worker
  • Hawaii Schools of Social Work
  • Insurance
  • Kickball Tournament
  • Blog: Tales of a Social Worker

Thinking of going to school to become a Social Worker?

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If you’re looking for a career with meaning, action, diversity, satisfaction, and an abundance of options, consider social work.  Social workers are people who care about people, who want to make things better, who want to relieve suffering, who want their work to make a difference.
Social work is a profession devoted to helping people function the best they can in their environment. This can mean providing direct services or therapy directly to people.  It also can mean working for change to improve social conditions.

The phrase "in their environment" points to a distinguishing characteristic of social work—one that sets it apart from other helping professions. Social workers help clients deal not only with how they feel about a situation but also with what they can do about it. For example, a man suffering stress stemming from single parenting may be referred by a social worker to a child care agency. The social worker also might help him explore flextime with his employer and might work with a coalition of local employers to make flextime and child care more available. In addition, the social worker might provide therapy to help him handle the immediate stress.

Many social workers work for social change as well. The victim of an assault benefits not only from therapy but also from efforts to curb neighborhood crime. The client under stress because illness has devastated the family finances benefits from efforts to reform the nation’s health care system.
9 Reasons to become a Social Worker

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University of Hawai'i-
Manoa

Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health
2430 Campus Road, Gartley Hall
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: 808.956.7182
Fax: 808.956.5964

Degrees Offered: BSW, MSW & PhD
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Hawai'i Pacific University

College of Health and Society
Social Work Program
Waterfront Plaza 500 Ala Moana Boulevard Building 1, Suite 400 Honolulu, HI 96813

808.544.0234;
 ssw-info@hpu.edu 


Degrees offered: BSW, MSW
                                                
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Brigham Young University-Hawai'i

School of Social Work
5-220 Kulanui Street 
Laie, HI 96762

Phone: 808.675.4968
Fax: 808.675.3981
Email:
socialwork@byuh.edu

    Degrees offered: BSW
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