The Agents for Social Change Foundation

05/02/2025

04/23/2025

💡The personal journey social workers go on deeply impacts their work with clients.

📃Social workers often face high workloads and complex cases, leading to stress and burnout. To support their wellbeing, many engage in activities like dancing and walking, and benefit from employer initiatives such as flexible working arrangements and employee assistance programs. ​

The Philadelphia Police Department piloted its Crisis Intervention Teams on the Behavioral Health Unit a little more than two years ago, as a co-responder program that sends an officer with a mental health clinician or social worker to respond to crises or mental health calls.

04/17/2025

💡Social workers commit to supporting their communities, often at the cost of their own wellbeing. The below article talks about some tangible strategies to practice intentional self care.

📃Social workers often face high workloads and complex cases, leading to stress and burnout. To support their wellbeing, many engage in activities like dancing and walking, and benefit from employer initiatives such as flexible working arrangements and employee assistance programs. ​

https://www.theguardian.com/social-work-looking-to-the-future/2025/mar/14/i-call-it-my-mental-health-monday-how-social-workers-look-after-their-own-wellbeing

Life as a social worker can have its ups and downs, but with support from employers, professionals in the field are able to carve out valuable space for themselves – and improve their practice and job satisfaction in the process

02/28/2025

⭐Nonprofit Newsflash!⭐

In their first year, The Agents for Social Change Foundation provided cost-efficient supervision to three mental health practitioners, two fully licensed Social Workers, and two private practices which ultimately led to improved clinical skills, knowledge, personal insights, and capacity at personal and community support levels.

Mental health professionals require 2 years of post-master supervision to become fully licensed to practice as a mental health professional independently. For many new graduates, finding quality, affordable supervision that aligns with their needs is a challenge, leading to provisionally licensed Social Workers and Counselors being forced to work in other fields of counseling and social work while they work on obtaining their experience and supervision hours. This creates a sizable (2-year) gap between service providers wanting to serve as mental health clinicians and the significant number of patients looking for services. Through affordable, quality supervision, Agents for Social Change assist practitioners in joining the field sooner, leading to more patients' mental health needs being addressed.

Thank you for doing this important work that many in our community may not be aware is a need in the mental health space.

Learn more about the Agents for Social Change Foundation here: agentsforsocialchange.org

02/24/2025

We are committed to providing our clients with the best care possible. We are excited to share that our clinical supervisor, Kush Desai, has earned his Approved Clinical Supervisor credential. This nationally recognized credential demonstrates advanced skills and knowledge in clinical supervision and consultation practice.

01/26/2025

Agents for Social Change Foundation offers scholarships to social work & education scholars to ease the burden of higher education. We also support community helpers through clinical supervision, consulting, & training.