Addressing the 13 Grand Challenges for Social Work via Simulation Labs

Abstract

The 13 Grand Challenges for Social Work (GCSW) provide a framework for defining the most complex issues facing society today. They encourage social workers to engage in transformational innovation and evidence-based interventions to help eradicate complex problems. Since the inception of GCSW, excitement has been building within the social work community. Nevertheless, even with this excitement, social work educators face another challenge: How to infuse the GCSW into curricula at the undergraduate level and keep the momentum building amongst future social workers. This chapter provides an approach for infusing the GCSW into undergraduate social work education, focusing on the practical integration of the GCSW into social work simulation labs. This chapter is a project design for the implementation of the 13 GCSW into undergraduate social work programs, via simulation labs.