• Society for Spirituality and Social Work 
  (http://ssw.asu.edu/spirituality/sssw/)
  

   The Society for Spirituality and Social Work is an organization of social workers and other helping professionals that has grown international in scope. It honors and encourages spiritual development and justice for all people of diverse religious and non-religious paths by advocating for spiritually sensitive social work education, research, theory, and practice. I began to develop the Society through networking while at the University of Iowa in 1986-89. In 1990, I founded the Society at the University of Kansas. In 1994, Professor Robin Russel, Ph.D., assumed leadership as Director and hosted the Society at the University of Nebraska. In 2003, Dr. Russell and the Society moved to the School of Education and Human Development, Binghamton University, State University of New York. During her tenure from 1994 to 2005, the Society expanded activities to national and international conferences as well as many other initiatives. On July 1, 2005, the Society moved to the Arizona State University College of Public Programs, School of Social Work under Professor Ann Weaver Nichols, DSW, ann.nichols@asu.edu or sssw@asu.edu . The Society's website contains information about membership, conferences, contacts, and resources for teaching and practice. Membership includes subscription to the Society's newsletter, The Spirituality and Social Work Forum, and its scholarly journal, Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought. Publications from the first three years of the SSSW can be found here (SSSW). This is a collection of the publications of the Society for Spirituality and Social Work (1989-1992), when I was the Society director and publications editor. It contains essays and research articles by some of the early leaders of the movement for spirituality in social work. The bibliographies included indicate the range of publications available in the USA during the late 1980s to early 1990s. This collection has never been published all together; the contents are rare to find through libraries, so I have made this collection available online.

• Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik School of Social Work Theory and Practice  
  (http://www.mladiuobrenovcu.info/seminari-razmene/inter-university-centre-dubrovnik-school-of-social-work-theory-and-pra-6.html)
  

     This educational center sponsors an annual International Symposium on Spirituality and Social Work in Dubrovnik, Croatia.  The Symposium is committed to themes of spirituality, social work, nonviolence, conflict resolution, and reconciliation. I was a co-director of this symposium for several years.

• Canadian Society for Spirituality and Social Work
  (http://w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/spirituality/index.html)
  

     The Society was founded in 2002.  It holds an annual conference to stimulate discussion on the topic of spirituality and social work education and practice, with an emphasis on social change and political action.  This website is intended to serve as a vehicle to help develop Canadian dialogue and scholarship on the topic of spirituality within the helping professions.

• Global Alliance for a Deep Ecological Social Work (GADESW)
  (http://www.ecosocialwork.org/)

     This site, founded in 2000, offers information on environmental issues, ecological justice, deep ecology, ecofeminism, eco-spirituality and sustainable social development.  It contains the following offerings: a bibliography of social work authors who have written on these topics; links to related topics and related fields; and a Partner Essay page. As of August 2002, a Media Page and On-line Journal are planned for the future.  Fred Besthorn, Ph.D., of the University of Northern Iowa, hosts this site.

• Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
  (http://www.cswe.org/spirituality)

      This is the Council on Social Work Education's site dedicated to spiritual diversity in social wrok education. It includes online access to an extensive searchable bibliography of nearly 800 international references with numerous annotations--by Canda, et al. (2003). It also contains a set of 22 case studies involving spirituality, with teaching recommendations--by Scales, et al. (2002).

• Professor Bernard Moss's Homepage
  (http://www.bernardmoss.org.uk/)

      Dr. Bernard Moss is a professor of Social Work Education and Spirituality, Staffordshire University. He is also a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a national teaching fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a director of the Centre for Spirituality and Health. In this site, he offers his extensive work including his recent inaugural professorial lecture. It also includes a link to Staffordshire University Centre for Spirituality and Health, which was created to respond to the increasing importance of spirituality in the field of health and social care.

• International Study of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work Practice (ISRSSWP)
  (http://spiritualityreligionsurvey.com/default.aspx)

      The purpose of the International Study of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work Practice (ISRSSWP) is to better understand the extent to which practicing social workers incorporate religion and spirituality in their practice and to explore their views regarding the appropriateness of religion and spirituality in social work practice. Cross-national survey research has been conducted in the USA, the United Kingdom, Norway, and New Zealand, to expand the knowledge base with empirical data regarding the global interface of spirituality and religion in social work practice and education. The executive reports from these countries are presented in the HP.
 

(If you are aware of a website that addresses diverse spiritual perspectives in the context of professional social work, and which you would like added to this list, please email me at edc@ku.edu)