Educating students for social work with Latinos:: Issues for the new millennium

The growth of the Latino population in the United States and their internal migration to new regions will have a strong influence on social work practice. To be culturally competent when working with this population, social workers and social work students must have adequate knowledge, values, and skills necessary for work with Latinos. In this article the authors discuss social work literature on Latinos, current and emerging trends in this literature, and the implications of these trends for social work education.