The Professionalization of Clinical Practice is a direct result from trained and educated social workers who after graduation have had a difficult time trying to seek feasible and professional work. Most of the employment available for social work practitioners has been in community capacity building and child welfare making these positions scarce and limited in availability. The question that eme
rged again and again: How do we think through the challenges faced by clinicians who are trained and lack the necessary opportunities to gain access to professional work? Drawing from the insight of scholars, educators, government, civil service, independent persons, NGO practitioners and politicians. We seek to interrogate the kind of collaboration that might be possible between Global South and Global North. Finally, we seek to imagine the new, breaking through systemic barriers that would otherwise promote marginalization, oppression, and subjugation. The conference builds on issues that are prevalent to those living in the Horn, while also thinking through the particularities of practitioners living in North America. Looking at the gaps that prevent the professionalization of clinicians living in the Horn: why are they not qualified as professional practitioners, what makes their journey difficult, how can these issues be remedied?