Financial Education and Social Work

Already advising on complex topics like housing, public benefits and health insurance, social workers may soon add financial education and guidance to their services. But would training social workers to increase the financial capability of their communities be too much to ask of an already strained profession? Or might it be an essential ingredient that has been underestimated all along?

New NEFE-funded research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that now is the time to add financial education to social work curriculum.