CAPE FEAR/FAYETTEVILLE ASSOCIATION OF BLACK SOCIAL WORKERS
About US
ABSW is local, non-profit service organization that provides a forum through which Black Social Workers, and workers in related fields of social services can
exchange ideas, offer services and develop activities in the best interest of people of African descent and the African American community. Our primary goal is to promote the general welfare of the Black Community.
Our History
NABSW was created during the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement on May 8, 1968 in San Francisco, California by a group of Black Social Workers who were convened for the National Conference on Social Welfare, the largest professional social work organization at the time. This group of Black Social Workers disengaged from that meeting and gathered at Glide Memorial Church and forms what has ultimately become the foremost advocacy group established to address the unique social issues and concerns of the Black community. Those Black Social Workers ultimately became the founders of the National Association of Black Social Workers.
