Practical Training of Young Social Work Talents

Practical Training of Young Social Work Talents

It had extensive pilot program to explore and experience. In early 2003, the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued “the notice on the strengthening of the construction of social work team”, which actively promoted the conditional provinces bold to carry out the construction of professional system of social work. In July 2004, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security Department promulgated the national occupational standards, provided social work profession’s requirements, theoretical knowledge and skills to operate, in order to positively respond the urgent requirements of the social work talents training. On the basis of standards, more than 170 regions and 260 units around the country carried out the pilot of the construction of social work talents team.

It improved policies to have a solid foundation. The growth of talent is greatly influenced by the social environment. So individuals only stay in the process of interaction with the social environment, in order to achieve individual socialization and become talents. Even effect throughout the whole process in the growth of talents and value realization, party and the state policies in order to train talents reflect the political environment which belongs to the social environment. These policies guide the growth of talents, and reflect a culture guidance of the growth of talent (Luo, 2006, p. 102). By the beginning of 2007, the central government has organized the “Research on the Construction of Social Work Talents Team”. On the basis of finding out the real situation and predicting the future, the party has made on strengthening the social work talents team. After

THOUGHT AND PRACTICE OF CULTIVATING YOUNG TALENT IN CHINA

this decade, “social worker continuing education”, the “social worker professional level certificate registration”, “guidance on the promotion of the social security system and service system for people with disabilities”, such as other documents which are relevant to the construction of social work talents team have been issued. Not only the central government, but also the local governments have strengthened the construction of social work talents team, proceeded to develop social work documents and supporting policies, and had a solid foundation of talent training.

It expanded better ways to construct the talents team. In the “Task of the Communist Youth League”, Lenin stressed:

In order to reform our national institutions, we make sure to give ourselves this task: firstly, to learn; secondly, learning; thirdly, still learning. And then we must check learning which is really deep into our flesh inside, truly and completely become an integral part of life, rather than making learning provision into a dead or fashionable rhetoric. (Lenin, 1960, pp. 699-700)

So learning and training have increasingly become the starting point of expansion of young social work talents. It developed a lot of young talents through the set of professional social work in which recruits college students. At the same time, the government has actively promoted the development of professional education of social work. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has put social work training into “the 10th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Civil Affairs”. It has set the bachelor degree, master degree, and doctoral degree of social work. There currently are more than 240 colleges which can offer bachelor degree of social work and more than 10,000 graduates every year.