The Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers (NSASW) is the professional and regulatory body for social workers in Nova Scotia. It helps ensure that all social workers are practicing within accepted standards, and helps advocate and promote the profession of social work. "Social work is a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being. It aims at helping them develop their skills and the ability to use their own resources and those of the community to resolve problems. Social work is concerned with individual and personal problems but also with broader social issues such as poverty, unemployment and domestic violence."