Employer Communiqués

Celebrating Ethics, Insight and Innovation at AMED 2019

On June 13, the College hosted members at its 2019 Annual Meeting and Education Day (AMED) at Toronto’s Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The theme of AMED 2019 was Ethics. Insight. Innovation. More than 500 social workers and social service workers – and hundreds more online – participated in AMED this year. As an employer, you may be interested in telling your staff about AMED and the resources we have posted online. AMED is one way…

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Employer Roundtable

Since 2017, the College has hosted Employer Roundtables in Thunder Bay, Windsor, Sudbury and Kitchener. These interactive events provide an opportunity for employers to learn about the College and its public protection mandate and to share their ideas about how the College can better support employers. The date of this fall’s roundtable has been set for October 10, 2019. The College will announce the location in the next issue of the Employer Communiqué.

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Q&A: Mandatory Professional Development

Does the College require members to engage in ongoing professional development each year? Yes. As part of its public protection mandate, the College requires members to engage in ongoing learning through its Continuing Competence Program (CCP). Based on an adult education model, the CCP requires members to: Review the Standards of Practice every year.Complete a self-assessment based on those principles.Set goals and carry out learning activities based on their self-assessment. The College’s CCP was launched…

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The Benefits of Field Education for Employers

Have you considered providing field education opportunities to social work/social service work students? Field education is a mandatory practicum requirement for those aspiring to careers as social workers and social service workers. An experiential learning tool, field education helps students develop their professional competency by providing them with an opportunity to apply their knowledge to the practice setting. Field education can also be beneficial to participating employers and their social worker/ social service worker staff…

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The Importance of Regulation

Why are social workers and social service workers regulated in Ontario? Employers sometimes ask that simple, direct question at our biannual Employer Roundtables, which provide the College and its employer stakeholders with the opportunity to engage in direct dialogue. It’s an important question because it gets to the heart of our public protection mandate. (more…)

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What Employers Should Know About Our New Public Awareness Campaign

On March 1, 2019, the College launched our first-ever, online public awareness campaign. “What’s in a name?” promotes awareness of the College and the Online Register of social workers and social service workers in Ontario. It also reinforces the College’s ongoing mandate to protect the public interest through the campaign’s full tagline, “What’s in a name? Protection for you.” (more…)

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Watch AMED 2019 via Livestream!

The College is holding our Annual Meeting and Education Day (AMED) on Thursday, June 13, 2019. Although AMED is exclusively for registered social workers and registered social service workers, we will livestream the Annual Meeting, keynote address and four afternoon breakout sessions on the College website and our Facebook page, so stakeholders across the province are able to watch the proceedings live. (more…)

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Introducing ETHICS→A

Have your employees ever faced an ethical dilemma related to practice? In February 2019, the College introduced ETHICS→A, an ethical decision-making tool that supports members’ ethical and professional practice. Both robust and concise, ETHICS→A reflects the College’s governing legislation, regulations, and Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice. The tool can be used in clinical and non-clinical, direct and indirect practice. (more…)

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Employer Roundtables

Since 2017, the College has hosted Employer Roundtables in Thunder Bay, Windsor, Sudbury and Kitchener. These interactive events provide an opportunity for employers to learn about the College and its public protection mandate and to share their ideas about how the College can better support employers. The College’s most recent roundtable was held on November 9, 2018, at the Holiday Inn in Kitchener. Twenty-four employers across a variety of settings and sectors signed up for…

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Title Protection: Protecting the Public from Unregulated Practitioners

In August 2018, the College launched the Unregulated Practitioners webpage, located in the Public section of the College website. This page lists court proceedings that have been initiated or are in the process of being initiated against unregulated practitioners. It is just one of a number of new and ongoing initiatives developed to enhance the College’s regulatory effectiveness as it fulfills its mandate to protect the public interest. How can the Unregulated Practitioners webpage help…

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