Upcoming Events
MCSW Indigenous Engagement Session – April 11, 2025
The Manitoba College of Social Workers (MCSW) invites you to a space for dialogue, reflection, and knowledge-sharing. Your insights, lived experiences, and wisdom are vital in shaping social work regulation and practice to align with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit values, priorities, and self-determined needs.
MCSW 10th Anniversary Gala – May 15, 2025
Celebrate the Manitoba College of Social Workers 10th Anniversary at The Gates on Roblin. This in-person event promises to be a memorable evening filled with entertainment, networking and more. Don’t miss out on this special occasion to recognize MCSW’s journey and its commitment to moving forward in a good way.
Past Events
2025
- January 16: Technology, Social Media and Social Work Ethics: Risks and Considerations
- January 31: Foundations for Reconciliation in Social Work
2024
- October 24: MCSW Annual General Meeting
- October 10: MCSW Education Event held in Brandon, MB. Review the Program of Events.
- March 2024 https://nationalsocialworkmonth.ca/
- March 28: Preserving integrity in professional practice / Préserver l’intégrité dans la pratique professionnelle
- March 26: Relationships Matter: Examining the pathways to supportive long-term relationships for youth ‘aging out’ of care
- March 25: Enhancing social work practice through reflection & creative expression
- March 20: The link between adverse childhood experiences & addiction
- March 18: Valuing human relationships / Valoriser les relations humaines
- March 14: Pursuing truth and reconciliation / Établir la vérité et la reconciliation
- March 7: Adopting anti-ableist approaches in social work practice with families
- March 6: Disasters are a social work issue
- Appreciation Networking Event March 6, 2024 at The Leaf, Assiniboine Park. Read the Highlights…
2023
- Virtual Annual General Meeting was held October 26, 2023. View the Annual Report here.
- MCSW Annual Education Event, held on October 13, 2023. View the Education Event Program and Highlight Bulletin for details.
- In honour of residential school survivors and all those who did not make it home, MCSW Executive Director, Barbara Temmerman, participated in the 2nd annual Reconciliation Run, beginning at the ruins of the former Residential School in Birtle, Manitoba and concluding at Birdtail Sioux Dakota Nation on September 30, 2023.
- Keynote with Sheila North: In Recognition of the National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, May 5, 2023.
- Ethics and Risk Management Challenges in Social Work Documentation: A Primer on March 29, 2023.
- The Member Appreciation Networking Event was held March 16, 2023 at The Leaf, Assiniboine Park. View highlights of the event honouring MCSW members and the 2023 CASW Distinguished Service Award winner, John Smyth.
- The Black Experience (Black Excellence, Black Resistance, Black Dignity and Black Futures) Keynote, February 21, 2023.
- The Right to Die: Supporting clients through Medical Assistance in Dying (webinar) on January 24, 2023.
- CCP Overview webinars on December 14, 2022 and January 17, 2023 from noon to 1pm.
2022
- The Manitoba College of Social Workers Annual General Meeting was held online on October 6, 2022 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM.
- The Manitoba College of Social Workers hosted the Member Appreciation Networking Event on May 31, 2022 at Pineridge Hollow. View highlights of the event honouring MCSW members and the 2022 CASW Distinguished Service Award winner, Clemene Hornbrook, here.
- Working in Long Term Care Facilities during a Pandemic (March 31, 2022)
- Private Practice – Essential Considerations for Social Workers (March 21, 2022)
- Truth and Reconciliation with Sandi Boucher (March 10, 2022)
- MCSW Ethical Decision Making Framework (February 8, 2022; January 11, 2022 & October 21, 2021)
2021
- Cindy Blackstock: Systemic Racism & Reconciliation (October 14, 2021)
- MCSW Annual General Meeting
- The MCSW Annual General Meeting was held October 7, 2021.