This web site intends to provide an introduction to social welfare and social work. It is free for anyone to use for educational purposes. The content is delivered completely over the Internet.

The web site contains hundreds of pages of text, 12 audio lectures, videos, and photographs. By going through the site I hope you become familiar with the major concepts in social welfare and begin to do your own analysis of social welfare and social work issues - what they are, where they come from, how they work and why they work the way they do.

Picketers of Local 114 demanding pensions, medicare and shorter work week. Photographer: unknown, National Archives of Canada, Neg no.PA93699.