Date:  March 22, 2024
Time: 12 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Venue: Virtual Live – Stream via Zoom
CE Credit: 1 Core hr.
Registration Fee:
Social Work Students: Free (No CEs Awarded & a Valid Student ID is Required to Register)
Non-Students: NASW/NASWGA Members: $10.00 (Valid NASW Membership ID Required)
Non-Members $15.00

Presentation & Objectives:
Description: Social work in sport is a growing subspecialty of social work practice (Dean & Rowan, 2014; Beasley et al., 2021; Moore & Gummelt, 2019; Newman et al., 2021, 2022). Social workers are now employed in youth, community, collegiate, and professional sport organizations offering case management, clinical, and macro services.

One sign of the growth of the field was the establishment of the Alliance of Social Workers in Sports (ASWIS) in 2016, an organization dedicated to the advancement of social work practice in sport. As the field continues to grow, social work practitioners and scholars have advocated
for more sport-based field placement opportunities for social work students (Bates & Kratz, 2022; Clark et al., 2022; Gill, 2008). To meet this need, ASWIS recently established a Field Task Group dedicated to growing sport-based field placements. In line with this aim, the purpose of this workshop is to introduce attendees to the subspeciality of social work in sport and present on the work of the ASWIS Field Task Group including outlining specific strategies for establishing social work field placements in sport settings. This workshop, developed for social work field staff, faculty members, social work students, and practitioners, who are interested in social work practice in sport, will discuss the work of ASWIS as well as detail the specific work of the ASWIS Field Task Group.

The presentation will begin with a brief overview of the history of social work practice in sport and discuss the growth of the subspeciality including the different areas of sport that social workers practice. Then in line with recent calls to focus on competency-based education for
social work practice in sport (i.e., Beasley et al., 2022), the presenters will focus on the work of the ASWIS Field Task Group, whose goal is to advocate for sport-based field placement opportunities and provide resources to social work field departments interested in establishing
placement opportunities in sport. Specifically, the presentation will cover the different types of sport-specific field placements that may be available to social work students, strategies to establish these field placements, and detail different types of learning activities in sport-based placements that meet the Council on Social Work Education’s (2022) Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Attendees will leave this workshop with knowledge around an emerging subspeciality of social work practice and specific strategies to introduce social work students to a career path in social work in sport.