NASW Code of Ethics:
3. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings
3.10 Labor Management Disputes
- Organized action, labor unions
- Labor-management, job actions, labor strikes - balance between advocacy and responsibility
Commonwealth
Land Trust
3.01 Supervision & Consultation,
3.02 Education and Training, &
3.03 Performance Evaluation
- Provided with knowledge, competence, & skill
- Clear, appropriate, culturally sensitive boundaries
- Avoid dual or multiple relationships
- Fair & respectful
- Inform clients when services are provided by students
- Evaluations: fair, considerate, on clearly stated criteria
- "Preserving neighborhoods and preventing homelessness"
- Linking supportive housing to care and case management
- Client population: majority with physical disabilities, mental health challenges, addictions, and HIV+ status
3.09 Commitments to Employers
- Follow-through
- Improvements & Accountability
- Commitment, but not cost
- Prevent & Eliminate discrimination
- Placements at fair & ethical agencies
3.04 Client Records
Resources
- Detailed, accurate, timely, private/ confidential, maintained
Scenarios
Types of Records & Documentation
- Code of Ethics (English and Spanish) - National Association of Social Workers. (2008). Retrieved October 27, 2015, from http://www.socialworkers.org/pubs/code/code.asp
- About Us - Commonwealth Land Trust. (2011, December 15). Retrieved October 27, 2015, from http://commonwealthlandtrust.org/about-us/
- Taking paperwork home
- Backdating
- Having paperwork out when there are other clients in the office
- Language differences
- Intakes
- Emergency Info
- Certificates & Verifications
- Releases (Other CMs, PCP, Specialists, Family)
- Progress Notes
- Assessments & ISPs
- Leases
- Housing Agreements
3.08 Continuing Education & Staff Development
3.07 Administration
3.05 Billing &
3.06 Client Transfer
- Administrators & supervisors provide/ arrange
- Professional Development
- Workshops
- Conferences
- Agency Events
- Advocacy for resources in & outside of agency
- Open, fair, nondiscriminatory, consistently, allocated resources
- Administrators responsible for agency allocation of resources and ethical standards
- Maintain practices that reflect nature of, extent of, and who provided, services
- Choose/ provide services based on clients' needs
- Consultation with other providers
HEALTH & MEDICAL CENTERS
- Arbour Hospital
- Boston Medical Center
- Brigham & Women’s Hospital
- Dorchester House Community Health Center
- Fenway Community Health Center
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center
- Latin American Health Institute
- Lemuel Shattuck Hospital
- North Suffolk Mental Health: The Eric Lindemann Center
- Lowell Community Health Center
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- South End Community Health Center
- Whittier Street Health Center
GOVERNMENT/QUASI-PUBLIC AGENCIES
- Boston Housing Authority (BHA)
- Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
- Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership (MBPH)
- NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
- ABCD
- AIDS Action Committee
- Barbara McInnis House
- The Boston Living Center
- Casa Esperanza
- Community Servings
- Coolidge House
- Daybreak Shelter
- East Boston Neighborhood Health Center
- Eliot Community Human Services
- Emmaus, Inc.
- Fair Foods, Inc.
- Harvard University Recycling & Surplus Center
- Home Start
- HousingWorks
- Living and Recovery Center
- Lowell Transitional Living Center
- Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless
- Massachusetts Shelter & Housing Alliance
- Multicultural AIDS Coalition
- Neighbors in Need
- New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans
- Salvation Army
- Saint Francis House
- SPAN, Inc.
- The Psychology Center
- Victory Programs
- Women of Color AIDS Council
- Women’s Lunch Place
- YMCA/YWCA
- Partnerships & Programs
- Referrals
- Consultations