School Social Work Best Practice Guide

1 School Social work best Practice Guide Third Edition 2020 A collaborative initiative of the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Association of School Social Workers 2 FOREWORD The Illinois Association of School Social Workers (IASSW) believes that School Social Workers (SSW) are a vital part of the educational team, working together with educational administrators, teachers, counselors, psychologists, nurses, speech and language pathologists and other staff. Their unique graduate level training in Social work enables them to understand and interpret the influences of the School , home, and community on children. School Social Workers identify factors that can make School a more successful experience for students. Within their roles, School Social workers perform a variety of tasks and implement an array of supports to assist students, parents/guardians, schools, and communities.

The first edition of this guide was a manual published in 1983, and the immediate previous revision was published in 2007. In 2016, IASSW members requested to collaborate with ISBE to produce an updated version of this valuable guide. IASSW solicited volunteers to work on this current edition. The contributors

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