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

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.

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.

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.

This special issue focuses on community practice and research that advances racial, economic, and social justice through critical race, abolitionist, or similar theoretical traditions. The editors are interested in manuscripts that move beyond documenting the existence of racial disparities and social injustice towards analysis of race, racism and white supremacy. Race scholars are invited to showcase work that is explicitly and unapologetically anti-racist, anti-oppressive, anti-subordination and liberatory in spirit.

ACOSA is searching for an Editorial Team for the Journal of Community Practice (JCP) to begin in January 2025 following a three month overlap in 2024 with the current editorial team. The Journal, first published in 1994, is “designed to provide a forum for development of research, theory, practice and curriculum strategies for the full range of work with community groups, grassroots organizing, organizational and inter- organizational planning, collaboration, and coalition building.” This journal is published quarterly by Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group and is listed in numerous abstracts and indices.

Current issue online now.

Current issue online now.

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.