SAVE THE DATE 📆 for the 2nd National Mental health conference 2023 happening between 24th to 26th May Venue is Silver Springs hotel Bugolobi. An initiative supported by the @MinofHealthUG Mental Health Division and partners.More details to be updated. #NationalMentalHealthConf23

Meeting with the Uganda convention bureau today on the bureau's invitation - a department under the Uganda tourism board. The bureau moving forward wants to work closely with NASWU through offering technical support for national and international conferences for better outcomes.

World Social Work Day Western Uganda 🇺🇬 has ended on a high note with a call for radical community engagements , research, harnessing technology, and supporting youth-led interventions for a shared transformative future.

Social Workers of Uganda today celebrated #WSD2024 @ Kyambogo University.Key resolutions around advocacy, research, and community engagements on presaving our mother nature for a sustainable planet has been central.

Uganda started National -Wide World Social Work celebrations with Eastern Region yesterday at UCU Mbale with key recommendations around policy, research, and community engagements, Child Protection, to ensure a shared future for transformative.#WSD2024.

They both shared shared best practices, innovations and success stories from their diverse backgrounds in addition to networking.

In a move to facilitate cross-learning along different domains of social work practice,we led the Isreal delegation of social workers who are currently in Uganda to Butabika National Referral Mental hospital to have a professional engagement with medical social workers in Uganda

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Representing the speaker @AnitahAmong, Hon.Magolo and the chairperson of Mental Health Paliamentary Group Hon.Macho pledged to present a motion to regulate social work in Uganda and to mobilise all their collegues to ensure speedy presentation of the bill to regulate social work.

While giving his remarks on behalf of social workers in Uganda, Our president @byamikes emphasised the on the urgent need to have a law through an act of paliament to streamline the quality of social service in Uganda and protect all social workers in Uganda.

Today,a delegation of 27 social workers from Israel led by our president @byamikes and capacity building officer @SsekateMary paid a visit to @Parliament_Ug to meet the speaker and share experiences on how social work is regulated in their own country.

Today @Parliament_Ug , I led a delegation of professional #Socialworkers from Israel to meet the speaker of parliament with an aim of sharing experiences and the value of regulated SW profession in the country. I resounded the need to to have a law through act of parliament.

Among other things, the delegation has toured the campus, met the dean of school of social sciences and met the department team led by Professor Eddy Walakira and the current Head of department Dr. Dennis Muhangi.

The next session in our Child Protection Social Work Practice Masterclass Series will explore how social workers can effectively manage conflict. 🗓️ Tuesday, 16 May ⏰ 12.00-1.30 📍 Online using MS Teams Find out more and book your place ⬇️ https://t.co/z3jdQdKri9

Today we kicked off cross-learning between social workers from Israel Union of Social Workers and social workers in Uganda 🇺🇬 at @Makerere University Department of Social Work. All this coordinated by the @naswu_ secretariat led by our national coordinator @SsekateMary.

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He added that in some universities some people are teaching social work a core subject at BA and Masters level yet they never studied SW and are ignorant of what SW profession stands for. He equated it to someone teaching medicine without any knowledge on anatomy.

.@byamikes also talked about bringing all key stakeholders on board as we develop benchmarks, think about complaince with minimum standards including enforcement, need for regulations for high quality service delivery .

"As we commemorate King Charles' #Coronation, we also reflect on the enduring partnership between the Commonwealth and #Uganda 🇺🇬. Together, we will build a brighter future for all." #CoronationWeekend

Our president @byamikes gave the status of social work in Uganda and the gaps at country level including some universities lacking independent departments of social work,others having department heads who don’t have even basic knowledge of social work,limited funding among others