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Your MSW is a systems degree. You were trained for policy analysis, needs assessment, and program evaluation. You just need to learn the language hiring managers use. This guide explains how to transition into macro social work and get hired for the work you were built to do.
Macro social work built Social Security, Medicare, the minimum wage, and the 40-hour work week. Now it makes up less than 10% of the profession. The history is remarkable. Clinical drift is a crisis.
Building a Theory of Change: Why Your Logic Model Is Telling the Wrong Story
A Diagram of Activity Is Not a Theory of Change Most social justice organizations do not have a theory of change. They have a diagram of activity. Many have a logic model buried somewhere in a grant application. Some have updated it once. A few have actually used it. The problem is not that logic models are useless. The problem is that most logic models in social justice settings were designed…
Social work centers lived experience in its language, but the credentialing apparatus often filters it out in practice. From licensure to debt to accreditation, who actually gets through? A closer look at the structures shaping the profession.
Awareness without influence is not systems change. Empathy without accountability is not justice.
Our new guide examines strategic storytelling as a tool for creating systems change. This guide is meant for advocates, nonprofits, and macro practitioners who seek to create meaningful change.
New article at The Macro Lens: Social work was built on proximity to harm. We've spent decades rewarding distance instead. The Architecture of Amnesia asks who really belongs at the blueprint table.
The federal government just classified theology as a professional degree. Social work didn't make the list. Comment deadline is March 2. Here's what happened, why it matters, and who gets hurt most. 👇
Most MSW students get stuck with whatever practicum their program offers. But you can design your own macro placement. This guide shows how to partner with organizations you care about, arrange external supervision, and build systems-change skills through a "creative laboratory" practicum.
The epistemic regeneration spiral explains how coordinated macro practice, lived experience leadership, and shared governance can rebuild trust and restore social work’s systems-change capacity.
The Epistemic Erosion Spiral: Why Social Work Struggles to Change the Systems It Claims to Serve
Introduction: The Epistemic Erosion Spiral Social work has always carried a dual mandate: providing direct support to individuals in crisis while taking structural action against the conditions that produce harm. For decades, the profession has understood that individual suffering often reflects policy choices, institutional power, and unequal social conditions. Direct…
