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This report deals with studies on utilization of the baccalaureate-level practitioner in social work. It makes available information on the needs of social work practitioners and social work educators in order that better communication and understanding of each group's needs may be developed. The studies reported on include: "The Midway Project on Organization and Use of Public Assistance Personnel"; the "Study on Staff Utilization in the Foster Family Care Division"; the "Utilization of Social Work Personnel Project"; the "Study on the Use of Social Work Associates"; and the "Project on the Complexity-Responsibility Scale." Also included is a report of a special Task Force on Manpower Utilization organized under the Syracuse University curriculum-building project. (Author/CS)

Critiques the National Association of Social Workers policy statement on manpower and contends that it is essentially useless to the social work educator seeking greater specificity regarding the competencies to be developed at each level of the educational continuum. (Editor/PG)