SUMMARY Public health management SOCIAL WORKER EMPLOYMENT POSSIBILITIES IN LITHUANIA Milda Venclovienė Scientific advisor Dr. Ramunė Jurkuvienė. Kaunas medical university, Nursing faculty, Social Care department. – Kaunas, 2005. - 55 p. Introduction. This work is about Lithuania’s social worker job market and about employment possibilities of graduates, who received Master’s degree in the years 2000 –2004 and acquired social worker qualification. What are the possibilities of social workers, which have university education to get the work in Lithuania in this context is a relevant and not researched subject. It is obvious that the number of specialists who graduate from social work studies is growing, but there is no research done on where they get their work The purpose of this work is to research employment possibilities corresponding to the specialty of graduates – Masters who acquired social worker qualification in the years 2000 – 2004 Work goals: 4. To review and to present the official statistics and current social worker resources; 5. To evaluate social and demographic characteristics of 2000-2004 year graduates with Master degree who acquired social worker qualification; 6. To evaluate the possibilities of social worker employment depending on employment area, sector, on the work experience of the employed and social relations. Work target are the year 2000 – 2004 university graduates with Master’s degree, who acquired social worker qualification. Main research... [to full text]