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 Report in order to receive chapter support payments. Please note that Annual Reports are due by March 31 of each year. 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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Announcements

Making Waves: Group Work Stories of Social Justice - The Social Work with Groups journal is inviting narrative essays of 5 to 9 manuscript pages, about group work practice that facilitates social justice worldwide. Learn more.

Do you want to play a part in developing a new model of group work practice? You’re invited to be part of a research project by researchers at the University of Calgary. The purpose of this project is to discover how group work practitioners can utilize diversity to promote group development. Learn more.

TRGN Chapter Event (November 30th): Mini Group Work Camp

MA Chapter Event (November 29th): When It Gets Real: Navigating Challenging Moments in Groups

TIP! Le groupe d’une seule rencontre en travail social de groupe

Thank you for wonderful 2018 symposium in South Africa!

Many congrats to the Lithuania Chapter for an outstanding Group Work Camp (October 12 – 14th, 2018).

THE TIME FOR GROUP WORK

The climate is changing. In many parts of the world, respect for people who are different from ourselves has diminished and communities feel fractured. Dialogue is too often replaced by bombings and vitriol; hate-filled populism blasts reasoned, respectful understanding. It is not difficult to see why many people feel alienated; they themselves are disrespected and disempowered by increasing inequality, job insecurity and a sense that the important decisions are no longer within their influence.

We need to find ways to become inclusive, to celebrate our differences and to generate a powerful sense of togetherness. There has never been a more urgent time to bring communities together towards a mutual understanding and a respect, not just for humanity, but for the planet as a whole. Social groupwork can create security where there is uncertainty, a feeling of belonging where there is alienation, and a vehicle for positive communal action where there is a sense of helplessness. It has been used to unite and give voice to people in the aftermath of conditions that seemed beyond repair. Through social groupwork, nations, communities and individuals can repair.

This is the hopeful message that IASWG and its members offer to the world. IASWG stands against oppression and disenfranchisement. As social groupworkers, we stand for and advocate for creating spaces for respectful dialogue to expand our worldviews and perspectives in community with each other.

Contact us. Let us know how you are using group work to repair the world. Ask us how we can help you in this process. It’s time for group work.