Urge Your U.S. Representative to Cosponsor the MSWs in Libraries Act (H.R. 3006)

Social workers have long served their clients in a wide variety of settings. One setting where social work services could be expanded is in public libraries. Libraries benefit communities in a variety of ways and often serve as community hubs. 

The More Social Workers (MSWs) in Libraries Act (H.R. 3006) provides a key step in increasing the availability of social work services in communities through libraries. 

The bill will help reinforce America’s social worker talent pipeline by creating a paid social worker internship program at public libraries across our nation. Specifically, under the MSWs in Libraries Act, the Department of Education would develop a program to provide competitive grants to institutions of higher education that would be used to:

• fund an internship for social work university students in a regional public library; and
• employ a qualified social worker in a regional public library to oversee social work student interns  

Read the Press Release from Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (D-TX-29), lead sponsor of the bill. It is cosponsored by Congresswomen Barbara Lee (D-CA-12) and Hillary Scholten (D-MI-03). All three of them are social workers.

Take action now and ask your U.S. Representative to sign on as a cosponsor of the MSWs in Libraries Act (H.R. 3006).