{"id":72283,"date":"2026-05-02T10:47:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freestatesocialwork.com\/?page_id=72283"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:47:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:47:56","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.freestatesocialwork.com\/?page_id=72283","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our small midwestern team started Free State Social Work in 2010 as a part-time project in an effort to find smarter and more affordable continuing education. \u00a0Sixteen years later, we have provided more than a million credit hours of continuing education to awesome professionals like you. \u00a0We are a continuing education company that offers ASWB and NBCC-approved continuing education for licensed social workers, counselors, and therapists.\u00a0\u00a0Our goal is to provide you with outstanding continuing education, customer service, and kindness.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Our Commitment<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are 100% committed to your continuing education needs and bringing you content that is evidence-based, affordable, and relevant to your practice.\u00a0\u00a0While the world around us may change, our core values of outstanding continuing education and customer service will always stay the same.\u00a0\u00a0Our goal is to support you and the important work that you do every day.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A Note From Our Team<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you for including us on your continuing education path. We know that you have a choice in continuing education providers, and we are so very happy that you are here with us!\u00a0\u00a0Please feel free to email us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@freestatesocialwork.com\">info@freestatesocialwork.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 913-530-2987 if you have any questions.\u00a0\u00a0One of the best parts of our day is when we hear from you! <\/p>\n<div class=\"story-signoff-container  story-signoff-bottom\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"story-signoff-icon\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/heart-leaf-icon.png\" alt=\"Free State Social Work Core Values\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our small midwestern team started Free State Social Work in 2010 as a part-time project in an effort to find smarter and more affordable continuing education. \u00a0Sixteen years later, we have provided more than a million credit hours of continuing education to awesome professionals like you. \u00a0We are a continuing education company that offers ASWB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72283","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freestatesocialwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freestatesocialwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freestatesocialwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freestatesocialwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freestatesocialwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freestatesocialwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freestatesocialwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}