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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.

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.