NAPSW Kazakhstan WSWD2021
We would like to share with you our current activities devoted to support of social work
development in our country as a follow-up of WSWD2021.
This week we organized the Week of Social Work, dedicated to raising the status of thesocial work profession in Kazakhstan. This event is held within the framework of a joint
project of L.N. Gumilyov ENU with UNICEF and the Ministry of Labor and Social
Protection of the Population «Strengthening national curricula for the training andfurther training of social work specialists in the main competences of interaction andcooperation with the community with the aim of changing social norms of behavior».
During this week experts in the field of social work from different countries in theformat of a live broadcast will share their professional success, the history of theircareer path, as well as prospects and opportunities for social worker professions intheir country.
Today in Kazakhstan there is an urgent problem of personnel training in the field ofsocial work. According to the results of the family's social card, the need for new
personnel to accompany clients in difficult life situations is more than 20 thousand
professionally trained social workers (Materials of the Resource Center for Social Work,
2019-2020). However, the majority of students enrolled in the specialty "Social Work",
not knowing about this profession before entering, choose it unconsciously, not gaining
enough points on the Unified National Test for the desired profession. Therefore, uponcompletion of their studies at the university, a few remain in the profession, the rest do
not work in their specialty.
The main tasks of the Week of Social Work in Kazakhstan:• Build qualified and motivated social work professionals who can effectively
manage risk cases.
• Increasing the number of consciously applying applicants by informing about thepossibilities and prospects of the profession of a social worker in Kazakhstan.
• Drawing attention to the status of a social worker at the micro, meso, and macrolevels.
• Informing students, undergraduates about the importance of an interdisciplinary
approach in helping clients in difficult life situations.
Target audience: students, undergraduates in social work, social pedagogy, nursing,public health, schoolchildren in grades 10-11, specialists in the social protection system,education, health care.
We already started today with the session of Dr. Dinara Yessimova, executive director ofNAPSW Kazakhstan and Professor of Social Work Timo Toikko from University ofEastern Finnland. Coming days prominent SW professional from India, Germany, Russia,
Great Britain, the USA and Kazakhstan will share their own stories and careerdevelopments with our students.
Should your schedule allow it, we would really appreciate seeing you among our guest
speakers with a presentation on the topic: “My professional path, career success story.
Opportunities and prospects for the profession of a social worker in my country”. It
could be 15-20 minutes presentation and 40 minutes Q&A session.
Waiting for your response.

Kind regards,Zhanar Abdykalykova
NAPSW Kazakhstan
Mobile: +7 701 705 9776
Email: Napsr.almaty@gmail.com