Social Worker Role

School Social Workers Help Students:

• Achieve maximum academic benefits from their educational opportunities
• Understand themselves and others
• Develop self-control and take responsibility for their actions
• Cope with stress
• Develop decision-making skills
• Develop social skills

School Social Workers Help Parents:

• Participate effectively in their child’s education
• Better understand and meet their child’s social and emotional needs
• Better understand and utilize school and community resources available to help students and parents

School Social Workers Help Communities:

• Understand school policies, programs, and practices
• Minimize the environmental factors which inhibit learning
• Develop resources to adequately meet the needs of students and their families

School Social Workers Help Schools:

• Understand factors that affect student’s abilities to make maximum use of their school experience
• Access community resources
• Improve school climate through development of school policies and a wide range of prevention and intervention programs