A Financial Social Work Certificate Program for Community and Family Practitioners

Abstract

A Financial Social Work Certificate program launched, responding to a need for greater financial knowledge and skill development among social workers. Community leaders who were alumni of a social work school partnered with educators and researchers to plan and organize an intensive 7-day training over the course of 7 months, through the School’s Office of Continuing Professional Education. Content focused on understanding personal finance, learning about interventions to address clients’ financial needs, exploring critical and emerging macro issues, and focusing on how these dovetail with clinical practice. Preliminary results on financial social work self-efficacy indicate greater self-efficacy over three evaluation time points. Next steps will include a more robust evaluation and fostering a network of engaged graduates.

How Competence, Training, and Career Development Affect the Achievement of Airfield Adisutjipto Jogjakarta Members

“…(Hill, 2003) argues competence is: a basic characteristic of a person that enables him to provide superior performance in a particular job, role, or situation. (Callahan et al, 2021) said that training is an organizational effort to facilitate employees to learn about competencies related to their work, while development is an organizational effort to prepare future employees through abilities, formal education, work experience, relationships, and personal assessment. Career planning can be defined as a process that is used by a person to choose career goals and career paths to achieve these goals.…”