The Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development (SWSD) 2018 will explore the theme ‘Environmental and Community Sustainability: Human Solutions in Evolving Societies’.
The conference will cover the following themes:
- Linking environmental and sustainable development
- Role of social workers in fulfilling the UN’s sustainable development goals
- Income, wellbeing, employment and poverty
- Relationship-based practice: promoting the importance of human relationships
- Evidence informed interventions
- Strengthening education to meet the needs of communities
- Identity, discrimination and social exclusion
- Community development and social enterprise
- Health, mental health and disability
- Conflict, violence, migration and human trafficking
- Engagement with people who use services
- Rights of families and children
- Life span perspectives and issues
- Ensuring the sustainable and ethical use of technology in human services
- Women’s issues focused stream
The event will take place in Dublin, Ireland 4-7 July 2018.
Dublin, Ireland