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Social workers help students, families, homeless people and sick people. They need their bachlers degree. They are licensed professionals who gives family advise and support. They go to collage for four years.to get the job that you want you may need to get a Masters degree which takes two more years of school. Social workers make good money. I would like to help people especially little kids. Social workers learn different ways to work with people. Social workers must be emotionally mature, objective and sensitive to people they are working with. They must be able to handle responsibility, work independent, and maintain good working relationships with clients and coworkers.

Social workers have advanced educational preparation and practice experience. A master’s in social work (MSW) is the predominant social work degree for licensed social workers (79% of active practitioners). social workers’ most frequent specialty practice areas are mental health (37%), child welfare/family (13%), health (13%) and aging (9%).Social workers spend the majority of their time providing direct client services (96%), followed by consultation (73%) and administration/management (69%).With 12% of respondents planning on leaving the workforce in the next two years and the increasing need for social work services, there will likely not be enough social workers to meet the needs of clients

Social workers held about 595,000 jobs in 2006.About 5 in 10 social work jobs were in health care and social assistance industries and 3 out of 10 are employed by state and local government agencies.

Employment by type of social worker in 2006:
 * Child, family, and school social workers – 282,000
 * Medical and public health social workers – 124,000
 * Mental health and substance abuse social workers – 122,000
 * Social workers, all other – 66,000