Inching toward interdependence: Social work and social policy affecting infants,toddlers and their families

Conclusion Social policy that affects infants, toddlers and their families also affects individual social workers, the arenas in which we practice, and the opportunities for our profession as a whole to work effectively. Since social policy is created and implemented at many levels and in a process that is an ongoing one, social workers at every stage of experience and in any setting can participate. With our twin commitment to the development of the individual and to a society based on interdependence, social workers have much to offer. And there is much to do.The profession of social work has the broad purpose of trying to make it possible that every individual have the most productive life of which he is capable.Charlotte Towle,Common Human Needs, 1945, p.10