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The Advanced Palliative & Hospice Social Work Certification is the only exam based advance practice certification for health social workers. Based on a national job analysis, the APHSW-C became available in 2019 and has over 1000 certificates. The exam is available to take on-line. The APHSW-C is overseen and administered through the Hospice & Palliative Care Certification Center. The HPCC website has all the information you need to apply for your APHSW-C.
A strong community creates success when its individuals support one another. A vital component of this support is the service of our social workers. With the Bureau of Labor’s growth projection of over 100,000 social workers by 2026, it is more important than ever to make sure our social workers have the tools they need to succeed.
SSWLHC supports free-to-use guides developed SocialWork.org to help achieve this fundamental goal.
There are many post graduate fellowships available to health social workers. A list with links is coming soon!
As a benefit of joining SSWLHC, the list serve’s purpose is to improve communication and education for members. By joining the list serve, you will have the ability to interact with fellow SSWLHC members.
Members may use the list serve to either make announcements or initiate discussion. An announcement is used for one-way communication, to send announcements to a group of people while a discussion is used to enable a group of people to discuss topics among themselves, with everyone able to send email to the list and have it distributed to everyone else in the group.
Please note that these discussions will be moderated. Those who violate the SSWLHC social media policy, which can be found in the welcome message are subject to dismissal from the group.
Access to this list serve will ultimately better your experience as a member. We hope that you find this to be a valuable member benefit.
To join the list serve, follow the instructions below:
- Login to the SSWLHC member portal here. Your ID is your email address. If you forgot, your password, click here.
- Once logged in, click on Community Forum. This link can be found directly above “Welcome to the Members Only Area.”
- There are currently 11 discussion forums within the Community Forum. Each discussion forum focus on a central theme. Current discussion forums include:
- Discussion Forum – This is an area for general discussion.
- Annual Conference
- Leadership Institute
- Social Determinants of Health
- Department Organization, Line of Report
- Methods to identify specific patient populations who will need social work intervention
- Methods to identify social acuity to help staff prioritize efforts
- Coping with budget/staff reduction related to current financial/pandemic environment
- The new open-access requirement (patient chart access)
**Note: You MUST be a current member of SSWLHC in order to participate on the list serve.
Social Work Best Practice Health Care Case Management Standards, written by the Coalition of Social Work Organizations/Associations
Social workers in health care are regularly confronted with patient care issues arising from domestic violence and child and elder abuse. Three new standards of care have been developed to guide social work practice.