Contributor Guidelines

Any social worker, student, or allied professional can contribute. You don't need credentials to start — peer review and editorial oversight handle quality. What matters is good faith, accurate sourcing, and respect for the people our work serves.

• Assessment tools with administration, scoring, and cultural notes.
• Intervention models with theoretical framing and step-by-step implementation.
• Educational materials with clear learning objectives and accessible language.
• Advocacy resources with evidence-based recommendations and action steps.
• Regional protocols for navigating specific systems, agencies, or jurisdictions.
• Edits and improvements to existing articles — corrections, updates, additions.

• Write at roughly an 8th-grade reading level; explain jargon when you have to use it.
• Lead with the practical — what should a reader do on Monday morning?
• Cite current sources (within five years where possible) and prefer peer-reviewed work.
• Acknowledge limitations, biases, and the contexts where your guidance does not apply.
• Use inclusive, person-first or identity-first language as the community in question prefers.

• Anonymize all client material; never include identifying details.
• Follow the NASW Code of Ethics and your local equivalents.
• Respect confidentiality, informed consent, and HIPAA/GDPR where applicable.
• Do not promote products, services, or for-profit programs you are affiliated with.
• Credit prior work — quote, cite, and link rather than paraphrase without attribution.

• Improve clarity, accuracy, or sourcing — leave a brief edit summary explaining why.
• Substantive changes (new sections, reframings, removals) should cite reasons in the talk page.
• Disagreements are resolved on the talk page first, then with editorial mediation if needed.
• Don't edit-war. If reverted twice, take it to discussion.

By contributing you agree to license your work under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Anyone can use, adapt, and redistribute it for non-commercial purposes with attribution. This keeps the Commons a commons.

New resources move through a three-tier review — automated screening, blind peer review, and editorial oversight — typically within 10–14 days. You'll get structured feedback and can collaborate on revisions. See the full process in our Editorial Standards.

All contributors and reviewers operate under our Code of Conduct. Disagreement is welcome; disrespect is not.