Life Resources Relating to Social Work Practice

When I graduate from St. Cloud State University in Fall of 2012, I will have a double major in social work and women’s studies. I plan to practice at the macro/social justice level helping people advocate mainly around class and gender issues. I searched “social work class and gender issues at macro level.”

I first searched Google Plain and there were a lot of useful websites relating to advocacy work that needs to be done relating to issues around class and gender. A lot of the issues that women face are class issues because they are amongst the poorest in this country. Keeping up with current legislative decisions is very important as a social worker because your practice is affected by what laws are passed. Google helped me find the latest the news relating to the issues of class and gender, as well a general overview of what class and gender issues are. One of my favorite links that I found was an article called “Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills.” It is interesting to see what people in the field are doing relating to gender and class issues.

Google Blogs was a little helpful, but there were blogs that only talked about gender issues and blogs that only talked about class issues. As interesting as those blogs were, I wanted more of an intersection between the two of them. One of the blogs,“Privilege and Safety”  was written by a very intelligent woman with macro practice experience; it was refreshing to hear her personal experience in the field so I can kind of get a feel as to what I could go into in the future.

Technorati, Alltop, Google News and Google Groups were not helpful at all in my search. I realize that my search is very specific and these sites were made for more general knowledge.