Ethical principle: Social workers challenge social injustice.
Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of
vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people. Social
workers` social-change efforts are focused primarily on issues of
poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and other forms of social
injustice. These activities seek to promote sensitivity to and
knowledge about oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social
workers strive to ensure access to needed information, services, and
resources; equality of opportunity; and meaningful participation in
decision making for all people.
