#systems-change

Your MSW is a systems degree. You were trained for policy analysis, needs assessment, and program evaluation. You just need to learn the language hiring managers use. This guide explains how to transition into macro social work and get hired for the work you were built to do.

Macro social work built Social Security, Medicare, the minimum wage, and the 40-hour work week. Now it makes up less than 10% of the profession. The history is remarkable. Clinical drift is a crisis.

Building a Theory of Change: Why Your Logic Model Is Telling the Wrong Story

Social work centers lived experience in its language, but the credentialing apparatus often filters it out in practice. From licensure to debt to accreditation, who actually gets through? A closer look at the structures shaping the profession.

Most MSW students get stuck with whatever practicum their program offers. But you can design your own macro placement. This guide shows how to partner with organizations you care about, arrange external supervision, and build systems-change skills through a "creative laboratory" practicum.

Library social work is often framed as crisis intervention and individual support. This piece argues that libraries are something else entirely: overlooked macro practice environments where community needs become visible, partnerships form, and systems-level change begins.

Deafening Silence: NASW Restructuring and the Fear of Speaking Up