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The Carrier Role of Social Work: Learning from Alaskan Native Americans

THE CARRIER ROLE OF social work entails transferring knowledge of various approaches to life from one group of people to another group. This allows our clients and potential clients to help each other.' Via the carrier role, social workers connect client with client through their profession's general trust of learning, which consists of social work literature, practice wisdom, and the social work educational system. This new role arises from the premise that the wisdom of workers' clients is an untapped source of practice enrichment, a source that needs to be tapped and shared. The idea of the carrier role was developed through the author's work with a local child welfare agency. Alaskan Native children composed one-third of the residential care program. An independent program review, however, showed that the culture of these youngsters was being neglected. They did not even know if they were certified members of regional Native Corporations or if they were either potential inheritors of stock or land distributions or both. As a corrective measure, the agency launched a cultural awareness program staffed by an Alaskan Native. Cultural content entered the stream of the agency's functioning several ways. First, the Alaskan Native staff person routinely participated in agency team meetings concerned with children of Native origin. She brought Native knowledge, values, and wishes to these meetings and their decision-making processes.