Chapters

There are chapters and organizing areas located throughout the world. To locate the chapter nearest you, please refer to the sub-categories on this website.

Join or Start a Chapter

For information about forming a chapter in your area, please contact Chapter Development Chair at [email protected]

For more information on founding a chapter, please review the Application for Chapter Recognition and Chapter Seed Funding. Additional chapter resources: Manual for Current Chapters and Chapters-in-Development and the IASWG Chapter Bylaws General Template.

Existing Chapters

Each year, existing chapters are required to submit an Annual Chapter Report in order to receive chapter support payments. Please note that Annual Reports are due by March 3. Annual reports can be emailed to the IASWG Secretary, Joyce Webster ([email protected]).

If a chapter is interested in hosting a special event or project, additional funds may be available based on financial need and relevance to group work. Please submit an application for Special Chapter Projects Fund to IASWG Secretary, Joyce Webster ([email protected])

Hosting an upcoming IASWG event? Please have event attendees complete an IASWG Consent Form, which allows audio/videotapes, verbal/written information, and/or photographs to be used for IASWG's marketing purposes.

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Call for Group Work and the Pandemic Stories - Tell You Pandemic 2020 Group Work Story: The Social Work with Groups journal is inviting narrative essays of 5 to 9 manuscript pages, about group work practice and the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. Your story can take place in any setting and with any population in response to the pandemic. For more information, click here.

Call for Editors: Proceedings of the IASWG Annual Symposia have been published continuously for 42 years as a resource for group workers throughout the world. We invite you to apply for the position of editor or co-editor of the next volume in this esteemed series, the 2019/2020 IASWG Symposia Proceedings, which will be published as a double issue. For more information, click here.

Teaching Group Work Online and in Hybrid Models: We have recently added a section on Teaching Group Work Online. Here you’ll find full syllabi and other resources contributed by IASWG Members. Currently, many of us are moving to online social work education to as an alternative to In Person teaching during the Coronavirus pandemic. Therefore, we are also posting resources that we believe will be valuable immediately.

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