Social Work Digital Pal (#SWVirutal Pal) is a world and digital group of follow for the social work occupation, that digitizes the follow of getting a pen pal for skilled studying and networking. This group focuses on connection and collaboration amongst social work practitioners, college students, and educators to supply the occupation a possibility to harness its collective data for the larger good. Click here to be taught extra about Social Work Digital Pal.
On this weblog publish, we, Dr. Amanda Taylor-Beswick (@amltaylor66) and Dr. Laurel Hitchcock (@laurelhitchcock), co-founders of Social Work Digital Pal (@SWVirtualPal #SWVirtualPal), are delighted to introduce our new #SWVirtualPal co-hosts: Hannah Chambers, who’s finding out social work on the University at Buffalo School of Social Work, and Geoffery Kennedy, who’s finding out social work on the School of Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast. Hannah and Geoffery are aiming to achieve out to as many social work college students as potential as a part of our contribution to connecting the occupation; our efforts to assist the event of robust and purposive skilled relationships throughout the globe.
They’re eager to attach with established pupil teams working to assist studying {and professional} growth; they’re eager to unite to assist pupil connections as a part of the global social work educational requirements, from the International Federation of Social Workers, that define how:
- Social Work in context schooling should embrace: “a vital understanding of how socio-structural inadequacies, discrimination, oppression, and social, political, environmental and financial injustices influence human growth in any respect ranges” that clarify how “the worldwide should be thought of“.
Slightly bit about Hannah and Geoffrey:
Hannah Chambers is a co-organizer and host of SWVirtualPal’s Twitter account. She is a grasp’s pupil on the College at Buffalo’s Faculty of Social Work. Hannah is interning with iHeartTech, the place she is engaged on a number of tasks that contain know-how use in social work. The chance to assist the work of SWVirtualPal, a world group of social staff, was interesting, particularly as somebody new to the sphere. Hannah explains how she is having fun with seeing what social staff in different components of the world are engaged on, and she or he has been lucky to attach with Geoffrey, her new SWVirtualPal, who’s in Belfast, Northern Eire! Hannah is trying ahead to creating and facilitating many extra connections!
Geoffrey Kennedy is a co-organizer and host of SWVirtualPal’s Twitter account and is finding out on the Faculty of Social Work in Queen’s College, Belfast. He has a selected curiosity in working with folks with disabilities and is eager to develop his data on this space and constructing a profession in social work. Geoffrey, a former Chartered Surveyor, turned interested by altering his profession by means of his involvement with a charity geared toward working with folks with disabilities to enhance life possibilities, rights, and alternatives. He was delighted with the chance to grow to be concerned with #SWVirtualPal and is trying ahead to supporting world connections and for himself to be taught from many new future buddies. Geoffrey already talks about his studying from his first-ever digital pal, Hannah, a brand new good friend, sharing related pursuits from throughout the globe!
Hannah and Geoffery ask that if you’re social work pupil anyplace on this planet who’s interested by discovering a social work digital pal that you simply attain out through Twitter. They’re completely happy to assist you to consider discovering a social work pal and to share the advantages of connecting past your instant geographic space. They too plan to achieve out through the #SWVirtualPal Twitter feed in regards to the occasions they’re fascinated about internet hosting. They wish to ask the worldwide social work pupil inhabitants what they will do, with and the by means of #SWVirtualPal group, to assist college students to attach collectively throughout the globe.
We’re very enthusiastic about their concepts and energies and are humbled that they’ve provided to work with us to develop the work of #SWVirtualPal. Please be a part of us in welcoming Hannah and Geoffrey to the Workforce, and for these of you new to, or pondering of becoming a member of us @SWVirtualPal, you possibly can examine the place the digital pal concept got here from and why we consider it to suit so properly with the internationalization of social work objectives: #SWvirtualpal: Hashtagging for Connection – Social Work Virtual Pal
Amanda and Laurel
Learn how to cite this weblog publish:
Taylor-Beswick, A. & Hitchcock, L.I. (2021, April 11). Introducing our new @SWVirtualPal pupil co-hosts. Educating & Studying in Social Work Weblog. https://laureliversonhitchcock.org/2021/04/11/introducing-our-new-swvirtualpal-student-co-hosts/
