THE CAREER PROBLEM
Most Social Work Students Graduate Without a Career Plan. Students spend years earning a degree but receive little guidance on planning their careers after graduation. Many enter the profession with a passion for helping others but lack a clear roadmap for exploring career paths and securing their first opportunity. The result is uncertainty for students, missed opportunities for institutions, challenges for workforce development efforts, and a profession that continues to face retention and sustainability concerns.
Career Clarity
Limited visibility into practice areas, roles, and pathways creates early uncertainty in academic and professional direction.
Workforce Readiness
Inconsistent preparation across programs creates gaps in applied skills, professional confidence, and real-world readiness.
Career Launch Readiness
A lack of structured transition support leaves graduates without a defined pathway into their first professional role.
Career & Lifestyle Alignment
Misalignment between financial needs, personal priorities, personality, and career decisions often shows up during the transition into the workforce.
THE SOLUTION
A Roadmap For
Your Social Work Career
The Social Work Career Mapping Workbook provides a structured framework for exploring practice areas, defining goals, implementing wellness strategies, and building a clear professional development plan before graduation.
Students move from uncertainty to clarity through intentional planning to secure their first role after graduation and shape their future direction.
Institutions gain a practical tool to strengthen advising, improve student readiness and success, and support stronger graduation-to-employment outcomes.
Grant funders and Behavioral Health Workforce Education Training (BHWET) Grantees support a scalable approach that strengthens behavioral health pipelines, improves workforce preparation, and reduces early-career misalignment.
Behavioral health tech companies gain an integrated, scalable framework that can be embedded into digital platforms to support career navigation, readiness tracking, and retention.
WHAT'S INSIDE THE WORKBOOK
What You'll Learn
-
Career Exploration
-
Practice Area Discovery
-
Educational Pathway Planning
-
Workforce Development Strategies
-
Professional Goal Setting
-
Career Mapping
ABOUT THE CREATOR
Meet Lequita Brooks, LCSW
Lequita Brooks is a Behavioral Health Workforce Strategist, trainer, entrepreneur, and creator of Social Work Career Mapping. She is also the author of Poetry Therapy in Practice: A 7-Week Growth Treatment Group Model for Women in Underserved Communities That Motivates Behavior Change.
Through her work, Lequita helps social work students and aspiring social workers gain career clarity, strengthen workforce readiness, build sustainable careers, and create a life aligned with their personal and professional goals. She specializes in social work career mapping, behavioral health workforce development, student success, and sustainable career pathways. In addition to supporting students, she partners with institutions, grant funders, behavioral health techn companies, and workforce development initiatives to strengthen workforce pipelines, improve student outcomes, expand career opportunities, and prepare the next generation of behavioral health professionals.
Her work helps students make intentional career decisions, strengthen workforce readiness, and build careers that support both professional success and quality of life while advancing workforce development goals across the behavioral health sector.
Store Policies
1. Return & Refund Policy
We want you to be fully satisfied with your Social Work Career Mapping™ Workbook. If you receive a damaged or defective physical product, please contact us at socialworkcareermapping@gmail.com within 14 days of receipt to request a full refund or replacement. To qualify, the defective product must be mailed to TherapyTopia, 225 E. Beaver St., Unit #100, Jacksonville, FL 32202.
Due to the nature of our educational materials, we cannot offer refunds for a change of mind once the workbook has been shipped or access to the community has been granted.
2. Cancellation Policy
Orders can be canceled for a full refund if the request is made at socialworkcareermapping@gmail.com within 30 minutes of purchase. Once an order is processed, Lulu immediately sends the request to production. After the workbook has been sent to production, the order can no longer be canceled.
3. Shipping Policy
We currently ship physical workbooks to students and institutions across the United States and internationally. Standard domestic shipping is free and typically takes 7 to 10 business days once Lulu prints the product.
There is a flat $30 shipping fee for international shipments, and the workbook typically arrives within 15 to 30 business days from the time Lulu prints the product.
Tracking information will be provided via email once your order has been handed to the carrier.
4. Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critical to us. We collect personal information such as your name, email address, and shipping address solely to process your orders and provide career mapping updates. We never sell your data to third parties. All payments are processed through secure, Wix-integrated payment gateways to ensure that your financial information remains protected.
5. Terms & Conditions
By purchasing the Social Work Career Mapping™ Workbook, you agree that the content is for personal or institutional educational use only. Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or resale of any part of this workbook is strictly prohibited. We reserve the right to modify our products and pricing at any time without prior notice.