CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS - IN CRITICAL DEMAND - 2022 ANNUAL REPORT

addition to the ongoing pandemic: ongoing calls government’s election campaign and subsequent al year with the Ontario Association of Social for racial justice rang out, and only intensified inclusion in the mandate letters, CASW’s work Workers back within the CASW Federation fold – Sincerely, after a horrific attack on the Muslim communi- is now to continue putting pressure toward the and it has. [...] CASW hosted two online events to highlight the im- who spoke to the importance of this year’s portance of the social work profession all the way from the community level, theme – and the importance of social to the highest levels of government. [...] and communities Thus, CASW was happy to see the reintroduction of Bill C-5 in December 2021 – a bill that, if passed, • CASW published 215 Children: Recognition and Grief reacting to discovery of the would repeal all mandatory minimums specific to drug offences, and allow for greater flexibility and judicial remains of 215 children on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, discret. [...] Lebanon 2 26 | CASW Annual Report | 2022 2022 | CASW Annual Report | 27 Intersectoral Committee The purpose of the Intersectoral Committee is to promote communication, connec- Number of Assessments forwarded to Regulatory Bodies by Province 2021 tion, and collaboration among the three sectors (education, association, and regula- tion) and to strengthen the social work profession in Canada. [...] The Social Work our partnership with the International regularly, highlighting the following: the Office of the United Nations Working Conditions Research Project Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) which High Commissioner for Refugees launched its second phase of surveying is the global body for the profession of so- • The Education Commission has been (UNHCR), the Office of the United the profes.