Social Workers
in the
Movement to End Poverty

"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time.
But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
Lila Watson

 

Welcome to all social workers, human service workers, and others working for true social welfare. On these pages you will find materials, links, and information to use in your work. We invite you to explore these sections:

Who we are

• Our Mission
• Our Program and Flyer with contact info

Training Programs

• Training Programs
• Arrange to have us present at your agency, school, organization, or conference

Training Materials

• Power Points, outlines, flyers, documentation forms, and other materials we have developed in our work. You are free to use or adapt these, but please credit us when doing so.
• • Powerpoint: Economic Human Rights for Social Workers - Intro Template
  • Powerpoint: Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign- Overview
  • Powerpoint: Economic Human Rights Framework For Social Work Practice
  • Powerpoint: Claiming Our Rights, Reclaiming Our Children (CORROC)

Syllabi

• Examples of courses taught by our members.

Library

• Articles and book chapters we have published about our work.
  Note: Because most of these articles and chapters have copyrights held by the publishers, we are able to post copies of only a few. If you do not have access to a library, please contact us at Contact us for a private, single-use copy.

Links
The Social Welfare Action Alliance, which is a member group of PPEHRC, and other member groups in which social workers are particularly active.

• Social Welfare Action Alliance
• Organize! Ohio
• Poor Voices United
• Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights
• Sisters of the Road
• Social Welfare Action Alliance - Rochester
• Women's Economic Agenda Project
• Women in Transition

Discussion Board
To connect with others and share your work, join our discussion board at http://www.yahoogroups.com/ Search for SSWST_discussion to join the group

This is a work in progress. We welcome your questions and ideas, and we hope you will share links and relevant materials you have developed with us. To do so, e-mail us at socialworkers[at]economichumanrights[dot]org