Jane Pauley

Tracy Whitaker, DSW, ACSW, director of the National Association of Social Workers’ Center for Workforce Studies, took part in an interactive online chat with veteran newscaster Jane Pauley on Jan. 11.

The online chat on an AARP Web site (www.AARP.org/Jane) was a discussion of social work as a career and a way to give back to society for people aged 50 and above.

Tracy Whitaker

Pauley is host of AARP’s “Life is Calling” segment, which airs monthly on NBC’s Today Show. Youth counselor Sylvia Abrego-Araiza also participated.

To read a transcript of the chat, click here. 

Interested in a social work career? To learn more about what social workers do and find accredited social work schools visit BeASocialWorker.org!