NASW Standards for Social Work Practice in Child Welfare

The NASW Standards for Social Work Practice in Child Welfare is a basic tool for social work practice in child welfare that might include family preservation and support, out-of-home care, family foster care, kinship care, residential group homes, adoption, independent living, child day care, adolescent pregnancy and parenting services, hospitals, and nontraditional settings such as faith-based facilities. Information is also available online at www.socialworkers.org.