Adopt A Social Worker Program (AASW)
Covenant to Care's Adopt a Social Worker (AASW) program matches individual religious congregations of any faith tradition with a child protective services social worker. The purpose of the match is to support that worker and to meet the unmet needs of abused, neglected, and severely impoverished children in the local community. Due to the increasing numbers of children living in these situations, many churches and synagogues are needed to help.

Social workers who work with these families voluntarily participate in the Adopt A Social Worker program in order to help people of faith reach the needy who live among us.

Most of the needs identified by the adopted social worker can be met through the abundance in the homes of congregation members: the extra blankets and sheets, the outgrown snowsuit, the discarded juvenile furniture, the baby sweater knit by a caring grandmother.

Through this partnership, we are building stronger connections between congregations and their commuities, reducing the negative consequences that poverty has on the nurturing children receive in their homes, and providing hope for families who experience the support they need from caring neighbors.