OASW members and our board of directors celebrated the association's 2025 achievements and recognized inspiring social workers during our 2026 Annual General Meeting.
The video recordings from our 2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Joan MacKenzie Davies Keynote Presentation are now available on our YouTube channel. Check out highlights of our achievements for 2025, and celebrate the success of your fellow social workers in winning CASW’s Distinguished Service Award and OASW’s Inspirational Leader and Lifetime Achievement Awards, in the business portion recording of the Annual General Meeting.
Our 2026 Joan MacKenzie Davies Lecture was presented by Dr. Carolyn Mak, Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto.
Originally recorded on May 14, the presentation explores how social workers are "everyday heroes" who attend to clients and communities with compassion, empathy, advocacy, and values that empower in a variety of settings. This lecture grounds social workers in our professional roots, as we weather the storms of local and global contemporary challenges.
Watch the 2026 Joan MacKenzie Davies lecture
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