{"id":6217,"date":"2024-12-18T08:58:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T13:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/?p=6217"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:18:44","slug":"msw-community-practice-class-engages-in-green-social-work-through-experiential-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/2024\/msw-community-practice-class-engages-in-green-social-work-through-experiential-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"MSW community practice class engages in Green Social Work through experiential learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        MSW community practice class engages in Green Social Work through experiential learning\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>This fall, Dr. Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa&#8217;s MSW community practice class visited the Sawmill Creek shoreline in an experiential learning opportunity that saw them join the Greenspace Stewardship Committee of the Alta Vista Community Association to uproot invasive species and add native plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nathalie Bradbury and Suzanne Doerge of the AVCA Greenspace Stewardship Committee and Dr. Mpofu-Mketwa co-authored an article for Vistas, the Alta Vista-Canterbury Community Newsletter, to discuss the partnership and Green Social Work in more detail.&nbsp; The full article can be viewed on page 18 of the newsletter, <a href=\"https:\/\/vistas-news.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/VISTAS-DECEMBER-2024.pdf\">linked here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/Green-Social-Work-field-trip-400x327.png\" alt=\"picture of a group of people from an MSW community practice class\" class=\"wp-image-6218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/Green-Social-Work-field-trip-400x327.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/Green-Social-Work-field-trip-160x131.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/Green-Social-Work-field-trip-240x196.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/Green-Social-Work-field-trip-360x294.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/Green-Social-Work-field-trip.png 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, Dr. Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa&#8217;s MSW community practice class visited the Sawmill Creek shoreline in an experiential learning opportunity that saw them join the Greenspace Stewardship Committee of the Alta Vista Community Association to uproot invasive species and add native plants. 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