The Social Welfare Coordinating Group (SWCG) prepares, updates, and disseminates high-quality systematic reviews that help people make well-informed decisions about interventions in social welfare, social care and social justice.
Scope of work
We use the term “social welfare” in its broadest sense to include a wide range of interventions (programmes, policies and practices) aimed at preventing psychosocial and behavioural problems; improving human functioning, well-being and living conditions; and treating established conditions and problems. Relevant interventions may target individuals, families, groups, organisations or communities.
The scope of the SWCG includes:
- Poverty
- Income maintenance
- Labour force participation (e.g., employment training, job placement)
- Childcare
- Parent education
- Parent/family support
- Child protection and child welfare
- Immigration
- Refugees and displaced persons
- Human trafficking
- Individual, couple, family and group therapies
- Skills training (e.g., anger management, problem solving, negotiation)
- Mental health
- Behavioural health
- Substance abuse
- Respite care
- Foster care
- Adoption/guardianship
- Residential treatment
- Hospital care
- Gerontology
- Casework and case management
- Housing
- Social networks
- Advocacy
- Mediation
- Recreation
- Community development
- Organisational development
- Inter-organisational relations
- Low- and middle-income countries