This document discusses the various settings in which social work is practiced, including government agencies, the private sector, civil society organizations, schools, and communities. Social workers operate throughout government branches and levels to help individuals and families with life issues. In the private sector, they work for service providers, mental health and healthcare facilities. In civil society, they participate in community development and advocacy. Within schools, social workers provide counseling, mental health services, and family support. At the community level, they improve entire neighborhoods through programs and structural changes.

1. SETTINGS, PROCESS,
METHODS AND
TOOLS IN SOCIAL
WORK

3. SETTINGS
◦GOVERNMENT
◦PRIVATE SECTOR
◦CIVIL SOCIETY
◦SCHOOLS
◦COMMUNITY

5. GOVERNMENT
◦Social work is extremely important in our
society, but particularly so in the
federal government. Social workers operate
all through the various levels and branches
of government as they try to help individuals
and families deal with various life problems and
issues.

7. PRIVATE SECTOR
Social workers are employed in the private sector as well as
in public agencies that provide an even wider range of career
opportunities in the field.
◦ Social Work in the Private Sector
◦ Individual and Family Service Providers
◦ Mental Health Facilities
◦ Healthcare Facilities

9. CIVIL SOCIETY
◦Civil society as a concept in social work is
often grounded in local community
development. Participation in civic associations
that work collectively toward local development
is one means through which residents achieve
structural change and social justice.

11. SCHOOLS
◦A school social worker provides counseling and
psycho-social services to children and adolescents
in schools at both micro and macro levels. Social
workers work as mental health experts, leaders
of social and emotional development within
the school community, family-school liaisons, and
program development experts.

13. COMMUNITY
◦In a nutshell, community social
workers make communities better. Just as their
subordinates, social workers, help to improve the
lives of individual people or
families, community practitioners help improve the
lives of entire schools, neighborhoods, and even
cities and states.