r/socialwork

85K archived posts · Jan 2010 – Sep 2026

A Spot for Social Workers...

r/socialwork

This community is for social workers and those interested in joining the social work field! It is a place to ask for advice, share your frustrations, receive support, and anything else related to the social work sector.

Created Jan 23, 2010

99KMembers (last snapshot)

85KArchived posts

Posting Guidelines:

Please:

Search for similar questions before asking yours
Be concise in your post title
Be kind, keep discussions civil, and practice good reddiquette

Rules/Posts subject to removal:

1. Seeking Professional Advice This subreddit is not intended for professional advice including: medical, legal, mental health and financial advice. All client questions will be removed. This is place for professional feedback and development. This subreddit is intended for social work professionals and students to serve as a place discuss the field itself. Posters answering obvious posts asking for professional advice, will receive a warning for their first offense and a temporary 5 day ban for subsequent offenses.

2. Social Work Education or Early Career Posts No questions about school and/or entering the field of social work. This sub receives plethora of posts related to social work education, admissions, internships, and how to become a social worker. If you have a question that is related to social work education or entering the field, please post it in the "Entering Social Work" pinned to the top of the main page.

3. No Blog Posts or Self-Promotion No blog posts or self-promotional posts. This includes links to your practices/businesses, YouTube pages, etsy stores, etc. If you feel your content is relevant to sub users, please send modmail in regards to doing an AMA.

4. No Licensure Related Questions Questions related to licensure will be removed and referred to our weekly license question thread. Obtaining your license is something that can vary by location. We do not want anyone to be given potentially wrong advice when it comes to their career and recommend if in doubt to contact your licensing board, coworkers, or fellow students. Posts about passing the exam and including any guides or tips, are allowed.

5. Salary Posts in Megathread Posts asking about salary will be removed. All salary posts will be redirected to our Salary megathread (linked in the sidebar).

6. No Asking/Looking for Jobs No asking/looking for jobs, job postings, job availability, the job market in certain cities, or resume help. There are many other subs that are dedicated to these topics, please consult with them for these questions. We do allow city/state-specific job market questions in our stickied thread.

7. No Homework Help No asking for help with your homework assignments, evaluations, or interviewing a social worker. Homework in all of its stages is meant to help develop you as a professional. If you are feeling stuck, please consult with either your professor, supervisor, or classmates for assistance. They will be much more familiar with the criteria of the assignment than us.

8. No Solicitation Posts No solicitation posts. This means no posts asking for financial assistance, no links to GoFundMe campaigns, no posts asking for or propositioning an exchange of money.

9. Confidentiality We want this subreddit to be a place for social workers to be able to get feedback from peers, but we also must be mindful that posts are protecting the identity of clients and other reddit users. Posts may be removed temporarily at the discretion of the moderators if there are confidentiality concerns, and the poster will be given the option to edit their post. Doxing of users, including sharing publicly available or identifying information, will result in a permanent ban.

10. No crossposting Please do not crosspost out of this subreddit. Please see our reasoning here

11. Be Excellent to Each Other Be Excellent to each other. Hostility, hatred, trolling, and persistent disrespect will not be tolerated. Users who are unable to engage in conversation- even contentious conversation- with kindness and mutual respect will have their posts/comments removed. Users violating this rule will first receive a warning, secondly an additional warning with a 7 day ban, third incident or a pattern of disrespect will result in a permanent ban.

12. User Flair/Location Required User Flair/Location is now required. While this sub's users skew heavily North American, we have a wide variety of global users. Some questions are location specific or not universally applicable, so we ask that users please include a location tag either in their post or in their user flair to help others navigate the sub and offer applicable feedback.

13. No Reposting Removed Threads Reposting a thread removed by Automod or the Mod Team is an automatic 3 day ban. Please reach out by Modmail for post review and approval.

Weekly Themed Threads

Sunday - Education/New to SW

Monday - Underground Discussion

Tuesday - Link to Salary Thread

Wednesday - Venting/Rant Thread

Thursday - Leaving the field thread

Friday - Positivity/Sharing Wins

If your post is more appropriate for one of the weekly threads, you'll be redirected to there

If you are uncertain if your post will break one of the sub's rules, please message the moderators and tell us the content of your post and we will let you know. We are very friendly and do not bite. :)

We only allow research that is specifically targeting social workers and has been approved by an IRB to be posted here. If you are a researcher and want to post your survey here, please send us a modmail before posting.

If you are writing a book/screenplay and would like feedback on the accuracy of events involving a social worker, you must send a modmail before posting. Book/screenplay feedback posts that haven't reached out to mods ahead of time will be removed.

Helpful Links:

Salary Megathread (Jan - April)
r/socialwork Wiki!
Frequently Asked Questions
Mega Book List
Mega Podcast List
/r/socialwork IRC Chat on Discord
Directory of Accredited Social Work Programs
UB School of Social Work Community Resources
Directory of Open Access Journals
Social Work Salaries extra
Social Work and You(for those interested in becoming a social worker)
More information about certain social work careers
Grad Cafe

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