This website is designed to support the learning and practice of current and future UW MSW students concentrating in Administration Practice.  But it also exists to serve the continuing needs of our Administration graduates, as well as their administration-practicing colleagues (UW-affiliated and not), for professional development and networking.
On this site (which just debuted in July 2007), you will find:

• Information on the UW-SSW Administration Practice concentration.
• A discussion list for sharing job leads and other professional development opportunities in the area of administration practice.
• Information on past and upcoming events of potential interest to the social services administration community.

You can share information you have about administration practice-related opportunities (events, jobs, trainings, and so forth) through this site.  Please email the 2007-08 Administration Concentration Chair, Professor Anna Haley-Lock, at annahl@u.washington.edu OR post your information to the discussion list. (To do this, you will first be asked to select a log-in name and password.  Please be assured that none of your information will ever be shared beyond the UW faculty managing this site, and is sought only to preserve a focus of the sight on administration practice.)

Social work administrators are involved in some of the core challenges of promoting social justice in the field.

On a daily basis, social work administrators are responsible for assuring just and effective social work practice:  for developing and maintaining accessible, culturally sensitive, and consistent client services; supportive work conditions for employees; and accountability to communities, funders and regulators.

By addressing essential questions of service access, quality, and appropriateness, social work administrators can change how the world works for vulnerable persons.