Actualities
16.11.2018 The Social Workers’ Association organized an annual conference
Video is available in Latvian version of the website here. 16.11.2018 Social Workers Association organized the annual conference, which theme this year was “Social work in the institution.” Conference with reports spoke of social work professionals in the field and the heads of social service organizations. The conference was opened by Linda Ozola, chairwoman of […]
The meeting of the Ministry of Social Welfare Working group with agenda ‘Review of Social Worker’s Code of Ethics’
The meeting took place on January 17, 2018. Sandra Darkevica, who is the member of the board of SWA, participated in this meeting, which started to update The Code of Ethics of social workers in Latvia. The Methodological Management and Control department organized the meeting. The Departament of Welfare and Social Work of Riga Stardini […]
The meeting of the Ministry of Social Welfare Council of Cooperation of Social Work specialists on December 20, 2017
The Council discussed a number of important issues in social work field. 1. The need to update the Code of Ethics for social workers; ethical principles, values and norms; ethical qualities of social worker; ethical guidelines for professional conduct of employees. It was said that the Code of Ethics should be updated as much as […]
Annual social workers conference organized by Latvian Social Workers Association on 10th November
Annual social workers conference will be hold on 10th November at Baltic International Academy. The agenda of conference is ‘Actualities in Social Work: specialization and borders’. Participation fee includes conference materials, breakfast coffee and lunch. Participants will receive attestation of confirmation in lengths of 6 hours. All interested, please, apply until 6th November.
The Board of Collaboration of Social Work specialists at the Ministry of Welfare on September 27, 2017
The Chairman of the board of Social Workers Association (SWA) Linda Ozola participated in the meeting of BCSWS (the Board of Collaboration of Social Work specialists) at the Ministry of Welfare on September 27, 2017. The Deputy Director of the Methodical Management and Control department Ilze Skrodele Dubrovska, informed participants that Ethical Code issues were […]
The conference ‘ Ethics in social work’
The Ministry of Welfare organized the conference ‘ Ethics in social work’ on 24th March, 2017. The moderator will be the Deputy of Chairman of SWA Martins Moors and he will start this discussion about various facets of professional ethic. In contract, Ilze Jasina will speak on the topic ‘ Ethics in social work – […]
March – the month of social work identity
March is the month of Social Work identity especially when we could be proud of work we do. We are very different as social workers in our various daily professional activities but at the same time united. Therefore to build the feeling of unity Latvian poster is carried out for our use. This poster use […]
Annual conference of Latvian Social Workers Association will take a place on the 13th November 2014
The conference is organized by SWA in co-operation with the Baltic Psychology and Management University, and the Ministry of Welfare. The aim of the annual conference is to talk and discuss about social work actualities, current events and social work development in Latvia. At the end of the annual meeting, the Ministry of Welfare will […]
The animation movie for adults “The Stones in my pockets”
The USA magazine of Social Work has published a reference for Signe Baumane’s adult animation movie, which she applied in 2014. The name of this movie is “Stones in my pockets”. The cartoon is a true story, which based on the fantastic stories of five Signe Baumane’s family women, including Signe themselves – their struggle […]
The session of the Board of Collaboration of Social Work specialists on the 10th September 2014
The regular session of the Board of Collaboration of Social Work specialists was held on the 10th September 2014. The participants of meeting were informed about the organization procedure of the contest “The best Social Worker of Latvia 2014” and the final closing venue. The representatives from the Ministry of Welfare invited to support this […]
The meeting of the Ministry of Welfare on earmarked subsidies for social workers
The Ministry of Welfare was organized meeting with the Latvian Association of Municipalities, the Latvian Association of Municipalities of Social Service leaders and the SWA representatives. The meeting was occurred on the 28th July 2014. The agenda of the meeting was to prepare the new policy initiative project 2015-2017 of earmarked subsidies for social workers. […]
The Board of Collaboration of Social Work Professionals of the Welfare Ministry occurred on the 2nd July 2014
The basic issue of the meeting was The Concept of Minimum Income Level (The Concept) determining and planned support to the most deprived people’s serving out food or packages of basic needs. During the meeting were presented researches and statistical data, which are the basis for The Concept. The Concept general guidelines are: The GMI […]
The meeting with an expert of Organization for Economic and Co-operation Development (OECD)
The SWA Board Chairman, Martins Moors, at the invitation of the Ministry of Welfare, met the OECD expert – political analyst Arthur Mickoleit. The meeting occurred on 30th June, 2014. During the meeting a representative of the Ministry of Welfare, Senior Expert Gundars Ignats, provided information of current policy development process and collaboration with partners. […]
The Board of Collaboration of Social Work Professionals of the Welfare Ministry on the 25th March 2014
The Board of Collaboration of Social Work Professionals of the Welfare Ministry, (The Board), occurred on the 25th March 2014. The meeting attendees were informed about the activities of the political document “The Fundamental Guidelines of Professional Social Work Development 2014 – 2020”. The information was provided by the Director of Social Inclusion and Social […]
The Board of Collaboration of Social Work Professionals of Welfare Ministry
The Fundamental Guidelines of Professional Social Work Development was approved on the 10th December 2013 by the Cabinet of Ministers. The representatives from SWA were Ieva Lass and Liga Aboltina who participated in the work process of this document. 1. The Director of Social inclusion and Social Work Department of Welfare Ministry, Ilze Skrodele-Dubrovska and […]
The Sub-commission of Social Security of Saeima (Parliament)
The Sub-commission of Social Security of Saeima (Parliament) took place on Tuesday, 26th November 2013. The main agenda of the meeting was to discuss state budget financing in order to support studies of Social Workers. The initiator of this meeting was the Paula Stradina University. The number of qualified Social Workers in Latvia has to […]
The session of Social Security Subcomission of Saeima (Parliament) on 20th November
The Subcomission of Social Security of Saeima took place on the 20th November. During the session Social Work education issues were discussed. In this session were involved a number of representatives from SWA, Christian Academy, University of Stradini in Riga, University of Liepaja, members of parliament of Saema, representatives from the Ministry of Education and […]
The workshop “The maintenance of professionalism and competency of Social Workers: USA experience” will be held on the 8th November 2013
The Social Workers Association has organized a very particular event for Social Workers in Latvia which affords an opportunity to participate in the workshop with experienced Social Workers from the USA. They will present topics which are actual issues in the Social Work practice in Latvia. These topics are: Social Work with dysfunctional families and […]
The session of the Board of Collaboration of Social Work specialists on the 25th September 2013
The session of the Board of Collaboration of Social Work specialists was occurred at Welfare Ministry on the 25th September 2013. The session was chaired by director of Social inclusion and Social Work Department of Welfare Ministry, Ilze Skrodele-Dubrovska. The representative from SWS board was Marite Sire. The SWA board Chairman Martins Moors represented Welfare […]
Project to draft basic guidelines for Professional Social Work development 2014-2020
The Ministry of Welfare have drafted basic guidelines for Professional Social Work Development for 2014-2020 which was announced at the State Secretary meeting on June 20th. The Social Work Association had put forward various amendments that they would like to find in this draft.
