Workforce study falls short.(GUEST EDITORIAL)

A recent report, Assuring the Sufficiency of a Frontline Workforce: A National Study of Licensed Social Workers (2006), a project of NASW's Center for Workforce Studies and the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the State University of New York, University at Albany, identifies three major challenges facing the profession to ensure the future adequacy of social work personnel: (1) replacing the large number ready to retire; (2) recruiting new social workers, especially people of color and men; and (3) retaining the current workforce in an increasingly stressful environment. Th