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    "ocrText": "- 8 -\nfor educating social workers. If social work education is to be\nadequate to the needs of the profession, mich larger sums must be\navailable to these schools, for new and more diversified services must\nbe provided.\nThe development of comprehensive and functional programs for\neducating all types of social workers, and the accreditation of these\nprograns, are two of the most crucial problems the profession now\nfaces. When social work education was limited primarily to the prep-\naration of social case workers the problem was not so complicated.\nBut within the last decade the problem has been made more acute by\ndemands for the preparation of other professional personnel. Instruo-\ntion for group workers has been added. But youth-serving organisations\ndo not believe that social work programs are yet sufficiently oriented\nto their needs. State public welfare departments expect schools of\nsocial work to devote more attention to the preparation of adminis\ntrators, supervisors, and research workers. Many social welfare lead-\ners are of the opinion, moreover, that social work education should be\nbroadened and strengthened so as to prepare more of the kind of wel-\nfare workers needed in social insurance, in vocational rehabilitation,\nin public health, and in the welfare activities of such organizations\nas labor unions, business corporations, and correctional agencies.\nOthers hope universities will soon find more adequate means for prepar-\n'ing social work leaders for service in foreign countries. These"
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