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Mission
statement:
The union of social
workers and psychologists is a grass root
base organization committed to promote and
maintain a forum for advocating the social
workers and psychologists right of
employment, better working conditions and
pay that correspond to their training and
working efforts. The union and as a
professional grass root organization is also
committed to the professional development of
its members and beyond. This professional
development is regarded as a response to the
expressed needs of the field and as a
continuous development of its members. The
union and as a professional gathering is
committed to address the community needs,
specially the distressed children and
families in such a complex political and
social situation that produces much
alignments which needs to be addressed
professionally. The union is committed to
the values of human rights, justice and
peace. With our commitment and foundational
believes, we identify ourselves as a major
players in advocating these rights as well
as rendering all professional help needed in
the various fields of social services and
related fields.
The Union
mandate is to advocate, develop
and serve as a forum for the union members.
In our commitment to serve the members, the
union board of directors identifies three
major areas of operations:
1.
Advocate the rights
of social workers and psychologists to a
better working condition and their rights to
be considered as professionals in the field
of their work.
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Develop a
legal tool that can defend these rights and
solve disputes.
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Lobbying the
Union as a pre-requisite accreditation body
for employing.
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Lobbying the
Palestinian’s Legislative Council for
adopting a regulator low that serve and
promote our professional image and rights.
2.
Attend to the
professional and developmental needs of the
union members. This is due to: lack of
practice, no action research institutions
available and that their training is within
already established social services
institution mainly based on charity and far
away from professional practices as decision
makers themselves constitute an obstacle to
professional practices.
3.
Activate such
potentials among the union members for
utilizing these potentials in serving their
community in times that the community mostly
needs such services due to the
political/economical situation that the
Palestinian community is going through.
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