ProSocial Workers: Promoting viewpoint and political diversity

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At ProSocial Workers, we provide a range of courses designed to expand your professional skills and knowledge. We put the social back into social work.

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ProSocial Workers Matthew Watson and Zander Keig bring diverse expertise and experiences to provide top-tier educational content.

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ProSocial Workers, provider #2002, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: May 6, 2025 – May 6, 2026.  Site users assume responsibility to ensure courses meet requirements for continuing education in their respective regulatory jurisdiction. 

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Meet our Team

Founders
Matthew Watson and Zander Keig

Matthew Watson and Zander Keig, despite being a socially dichotomous “odd couple,” exemplify the breadth of diversity within the social work profession. They’ve gathered a diverse group of contributors to enhance viewpoint diversity among social workers.

Matthew Watson is a licensed clinical social worker and has been licensed in five states. He has been practicing for over thirty years in a variety of settings. He currently manages mental health operations support for a global workforce of over 80,000 missionaries. 

Zander Keig is an award winning social worker, best-selling author, social care educator, and motivational speaker with many distinguishing accolades, including 2023 Caregiving.com LGBTQ Advocate of the Year, 2020 NASW National Social Worker of the Year, 2020 WPATH Harry Benjamin Distinguished Educator of the Year, and 2018 NASW CA Social Worker of the Year. 

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Senior Scholar
Dr. Nafees Alam

Dr. Nafees Alam is an award-winning professor (2022 Golden Apple Award) specializing in nonprofit program evaluation and macro practice, with over seven years of experience. Before academia, he worked in Wall Street’s financial sector for over seven years. Dr. Alam’s research agenda is self-determination in sport social work with a secondary focus on viewpoint diversity, open inquiry, and constructive disagreement in higher education. He has several publications and has presented at conferences worldwide, including two keynotes. He aims to disseminate ideas through many public platforms as a contributor to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Heterodox Academy, Inside Sources, Psychology Today, and Real Clear Education. 

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Features of Our Courses

Why Enroll With Us?

Our courses address contemporary social challenges in the ProSocial Workers way:

  1. Seek to humanize,
  2. Strive for dialogue,
  3. Stand for ethical principles.

ProSocial Workers: Social work for social workers. 

Expert Instructors

Our courses feature insights from leaders like Matthew Watson, Zander Keig, and Dr. Nafees Alam providing top-tier education

Simple and Flexible Learning

Our online courses offers simplicity and flexibility, allowing you to listen and learn at your own pace.

Convenient Continuing Education

Earn continuing education credit by registering, completing a quiz, and providing an evaluation after each course.

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“The courses are well-structured and insightful, making it easy to apply what I learned in my practice.”
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“Prosocial Workers has helped me bridge gaps in my understanding and improve my professional practice significantly.”
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Peers, Partners, Affiliates, and Friends

Peer Organizations:

Heterodox Academy’s mission is to advance open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement across higher education.”

Heterodox Social Work is a community of social workers who value viewpoint diversity, constructive disagreement, and open inquiry in social work education and practice. All social workers, including faculty, staff, administrators, graduate students and practitioners are invited to join.

We look forward to seeing you at our next Zoom meeting on Thursday, October 16, 2025, at 1 pm EST ZOOM LINK: https://unomaha.zoom.us/j/9339090149

Friends:

The Open Therapy Institute (OTI) is at the forefront of a burgeoning area of mental health care, developing innovative, evidence-based tools to help people, support professionals, and address social issues. Top scholars, researchers, and clinicians are applying a wide range of theoretical models to understand current challenges and disseminate this knowledge throughout the field and to the general public.

When people make connections to others and get support, they’re more likely to speak up. This can improve dialogue, understanding, and viewpoint diversity, as well as mental health. These positive changes can then ripple throughout the larger society. Whether you’re a mental health professional, a patient, the leader of an organization, or just a citizen looking for openness and dialogue, OTI is developing solutions to help make things better.