- Utilize the Macro Specialization Curricular Guide (2018) produced by CSWE in partnership with the Special Commission to create or strengthen your macro content in classroom and field (free online version cswe.org)
- Invite Macro practitioners/alumni to your classrooms and events to speak to their experiences as macro-focused social workers
- In social work courses, reference macro social work and use the term “macro-directed practice”
- When teaching or supervising social work practice, use inclusive terms e.g., clients and constituents, client systems, or macro-direct practice
- Remember that evidence-based practice is not only found in clinical practice; include evidence-based macro practice in social works courses
- Attend or hold macro-related conferences, workshops, and talks locally and at the state level
- Encourage colleagues in macro non-traditional jobs to identify and refer to themselves as macro social workers
- Show our three minute Youtube video: “Special Commission to Advance Macro Practice in Social Work-Overview”
- Feature macro alumni on your school or agency website and social media
- Plan a macro social workday forum during Social Work Month in March
- Promote and participate in a state NASW Chapter Lobby Day
- Reaffirm or help revise your state’s social work licensing language around the definition of social work and scope of practice. Join our licensing work group!
- Develop a CEU on a macro topic for your state’s licensing requirement
- Join or renew membership in ACOSA, ISP, and NSWM (our “United for Macro” family)
- Create and/or mentor a Macro Social Work Student Network (MSWSN) chapter. Find them on Facebook @MSWSNetwork or Twitter @MSWSN
- Participate in #MacroSW Twitter chats on Thursdays, 9-10pm EST. Visit macrosw.com
- Join the National Social Work Voter Mobilization Campaign (votingissocialwork.org)
- Identify and publicize all of the macro social workers in your community
- If your school does not have a macro-focused track, make one! We can help!
- Create a dialogue around macro social work with clinical professors and colleagues, emphasizing the critical relationship between the two
- Engage in political activism by joining an issue campaign about which you are passionate
- Identify and engage with social workers or allies who are in Congress’ Social Work Caucus or who hold State and local elected office (visit crispinc.org)
- Run for office! (Contact Humphrey’s Institute for Political Social Work at UCONN)
- Create a short video interview with a macro practitioner that can be used in the classroom and distributed among your field agencies. Ask us for a template!
- Use the term “macro direct practice” to counter the sense that “direct” only means micro or clinical social work
- Reference and use macro research methodologies e.g., community-based participatory research; there is evidence-based macro practice available
- Contribute or revise macro articles for the online Encyclopedia of Social Work
- Sponsor a “Why Macro Matters” essay contest among students and field agencies
- Hold an event for macro field instructors and celebrate their leadership
- Nominate yourself or colleague for one of CSWE’s Commissions or Councils
- Become a CSWE site visitor to implement the more robust macro-informed EPAS2022
- Circulate the Special Commission materials found on the ACOSA website: “Why Macro Matters” by Michael Reisch; “Macro Practice is Social Work (five frameworks)”
- Write for, use, cite, and review the macro journals: Journal of Community Practice; Human Service Management