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Recognizing Our 2025 ACOSA Awards Recipients

Published On 3/4/2026

As we celebrate Social Work Month, we want to acknowledge and celebrate our 2025 ACOSA Awards recipients.

The awardees represent meritorious contributions to macro practice, including researchers and practitioners, across various settings and career stages.

March is Social Work Month!

Published On 3/1/2026

Social Work Month was first celebrated in March 1963 to build public support for the profession. It has become an event celebrated by hundreds of thousands of social workers – and their supporters – each year.

February 2026 Macro Monday Event

Published On 2/11/2026

Social Enterprise: Balancing Innovation, Sustainability, and Real-World
Practice

Member Involvement Needed!

Published On 5/31/2023

We have several initiatives or projects that will be getting underway soon and want to invite ACOSA members to be involved. Learn more ...

Published On 5/17/2023

Now available as Open Access! The recently published Journal of Community Practice article by ACOSA members Mary Dungy and Amy Krings (also on our board): M. L. Dungy, & A. Krings. (2023). The challenges of "Moving at the Speed of Trust": How women navigate new public management dynamics in power-based community organizations.

Published On 2/8/2023

On January 23rd, ACOSA and the Social Work Equity Campaign co-hosted a lively discussion on social work licensure, specifically issues of racism, classism, and ableism; the need (or not) for licensure; and the costs to both practitioner and service users when licensure is denied.

Published On 3/24/2021

In this interactive workshop, we discuss our new ACOSA Community Practice Certificate that provides social work students and alumni an opportunity to earn a national credential in community and macro practice. We will review and discuss the framework and requirements for the certificate within the context of participants’ respective schools.

JCP Issue 33(4) Available!

Published On 2/4/2026

The current issue of the Journal of Community Practice is available online.

JCP Issue 32(1) Available!

Published On 4/3/2024

Just Published! JCP Issue 32:1 (2024)

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