Abstract

In this paper we aim to present two initiatives that contribute to improving access and quality of social work training in the current scenario of the overlapped sociopolitical and sanitary crises. First, we describe the Transdisciplinary Nucleus of Social Work, which has been developed by a team from the Department of Social Work at the University of Chile. The second initiative presented refers to an Online Training platform created by the Chilean Social Work Research Network, an organization formed by social work academics and researchers in 2015. Both initiatives aim to democratize the access to and improve the quality of social work training in Chile, from an innovative perspective which seek to counteract the consequences of these critical times in students' and practitioners’ professional development.