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Last Thursday, ACOSA hosted Stephen Burghardt, Lisa Hawash, and Ric Munoz, who presented an enthralling webinar based around Burghardt's new book, The End of Social Work: A Defense of the Social Worker in Times of Transformation.

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.

In this message, we want to highlight two particularly important accomplishments. First, the Macro Social Work Student Network (MSWSN) is building a very large email distribution list of current students who are the future of ACOSA! Thanks to all student leaders, along with Alberto Cifuentes, Jr., Tamarie Willis, and Becki Sander who have provided support for the Network. New chapters are emerging across the country and hundreds of people have attended the three webinars hosted by MSWSN this year. You are making a big difference!

The Association of Community Organization and Social Action (ACOSA) is searching for a new editor or co-editors of the Journal of Community Practice (JCP) to begin in January 2022 following a three month overlap in 2021 with the current editorial team.

The Journal of Community Practice is looking for paper submissions in the following areas: community organizing, planning, social administration, organizational development, community development, social action, racial and social justice; and social change. As an interdisciplinary journal, we accept manuscripts from social work and the social sciences; urban planning; community, social and economic development; community organizing; policy analysis; urban and rural sociology; community health; public administration; and nonprofit management.

ACOSA members and supporters:  As we turn our attention to building our own infrastructure for more outreach and member and partner engagement, we want to invite you to remember ACOSA when you post to your Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook accounts.