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Welcome to ACSW’s new registrant portal! We have made changes to the way you interact with ACSW! We have modernized our website and built a more reliable, easy-to-use system that will not only strengthen our ability to protect the public and better regulate the growing social work profession in Alberta; it will simplify your registration and optimize access to everything...

Changes are coming to the Continuing Competence Program, aimed at simplifying requirements for registrants while strengthening our ability to better regulate the growing social work profession in Alberta. These changes will take effect in January 2026. Participation in the competence program is a mandatory requirement of registration. We will be hosting webinars in the months of October, November, December and...

Welcome to ACSW’s new registrant portal! We have made changes to the way you interact with ACSW! We have modernized our website and built a more reliable, easy-to-use system that will not only strengthen our ability to protect the public and better regulate the growing social work profession in Alberta; it will simplify your registration and optimize access to everything...

The Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) is committed to becoming a more inclusive, equitable, and diversity-embracing regulatory body that honours truth and reconciliation. Our commitment to and focus on Reconciliation, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI) has been embedded as one of the Goals of ACSW's most recent Strategic Plan (2023-25): We demonstrate regulatory excellence We are leaders in the...

In August 2024, the Minister of Health requested regulators to review and address requirements for registrants to have professional liability insurance. The Health Professions Act requires all regulated health professionals to obtain professional liability insurance as a requirement for registration to practice. Regulators are to ensure: insurance requirements include coverage that would provide support to the registrant throughout the complaints...

We are making changes to the way you interact with ACSW! We are modernizing our website and building a more reliable, easy-to-use system that will not only strengthen our ability to protect the public and better regulate the growing social work profession in Alberta; it will simplify your registration and optimize access to everything you need to practice!   You...

The Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) is committed to upholding our mandate of public protection through the ongoing professional regulation of social workers. Background and Issue: ACSW has been alerted that the names and valid registration numbers of registered social workers have been used to create false profiles published on the website Psychology Today, fraudulently advertising services as a registered...