The Symposium will provide a forum for practitioners, government representatives, scholars and other experts from around the world to discuss efforts to strengthen the social service workforce to address a range of child protection issues related to care reform, violence, HIV/AIDS and migration. This year’s Symposium will feature countries that have formed multi-stakeholder national leadership groups or committees to create and implement comprehensive national workforce strengthening strategies. These groups typically consist of high level representatives from government, multilaterals and bilaterals such as UNICEF and USAID, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), universities, training institutions, civil society, religious organizations and professional associations. Country-based panels of speakers representing these types of stakeholders will provide examples of how they have helped to elevate the discussion about the workforce, brought more visibility to the topic, and designed and implemented strategies to better plan, develop and support the workforce. A Call to Action to spur the development of similar national leadership groups in other countries will be launched at the event.
Objectives
The objectives of this symposium are to:
Facilitate discussion and information sharing of national coordination efforts to strengthen the social service workforce and improve the lives of children and families
Encourage stakeholder advocacy to national governments and policymakers through a Call to Action for greater planning, development and support to the social service workforce
Forum Participants
Participants will be able to join in person in Washington, DC, and via live webcast from any location. It is anticipated that attendees will represent a range of constituencies, including non-governmental staff and practitioners engaged in programs providing support to children and families and strengthening social service systems, government social welfare ministry staff, donors with investment in child and family welfare, trainers and social work educators, and representatives from professional associations.
Event Organizer
The Symposium is being organized by the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance, a non-profit network with 1800 members in 125 countries, that aims to promote the knowledge and evidence, resources and tools, and political will and action needed to address key social service workforce challenges, especially within low- to middle-income countries. Tides Center acts as the fiscal sponsor and host of the Alliance. An 11-member Steering Committee oversees and guides the direction and development of the Alliance and provides support to the Alliance Secretariat.
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