社區工作與社區發展原分屬專業工作方法與政策方案二種不同的領域，但因社區工作的專業發展欠清晰，且社區發展具有長久的歷史因素及具有政策的普遍性，而出現社區工作依賴社區發展的情況。特別是台灣政府中各部門在推動社區方案中藉由訓練以培社區幹部的方案執行能力，並冠以「社造師」、「社規師」之名，而再開啟社區工作人員專業化的議題。而社區工作相關人員的專業化意義為何?是專業學歷？是證照？或是證照的前端內涵，也就是所謂的社區發展工作核心能力或者職能？或是社區現場的進階職能？這些課題涉及層面廣泛，相關人員的關注或指稱或未必相同。核心能力或職能需要的教學課程，是專業的最傳統意義，但已在社工工作現場的有經驗工作者，需要的專業化內涵又是什麼？

在社工的專業化過程中，這些議題也相似的討論；其發展路徑或必經過充分的討、溝通、澄清、對話，再漸形社會共識，最後才有社工師證照。更在專業證照為社會認可之後，更延伸出專業待遇及社工能力等問題。如果，社會工作師的專業化（或證照發展）有值得參照的價值，則開啟討論則是第一步。鑑此，台灣社區工作與社區研究學會邀集相關學者，開啟討論，期待可以引發更多的討論。

Community work and community development are two different areas of professional working methods and policy program. But nowadays community work depends on community development because of the unclear professional development and the long-standing historical factors of community development policy. In particular, various departments of the Taiwan Government, both local and central, have opened up the issue of the professionalization of community workers and community leaders empowerment by training, some entitled the name of community construction worker and community planners.

What is the professional significance of community work-related personnel? Is it a professional degree? Is it a practitioner license? Or the front-end connotation of the license, that is, the core competence and function of the so-called community development work? Or advanced functions on the community site? These topics cover a wide range of community workers pathways and different concerns. Teaching curriculum with required core competence for practitioners is the most traditional meaning of professionalization. But for those who are already in community site, what does the professional connotation of these experienced or on-job workers?

In the process of professionalization of social workers, these issues are discussed in a similar way. The issues of professionalization have been fully discussed, communicated, clarified, dialogued, and then gradually shaped into a social consensus, and finally reached to the social workers’ certificate. Only when the professional license has earned its social recognition, issues like the extended professional protection and social work ability standards were settled down. Take the career pathway development of social workers in Taiwan as reference, the Taiwan Society for Community Work and Community Studies start up this forum and invited respectful scholars to participate in this frontier discussion. In this forum, related issues and conditions of community work in Taiwan have been discussed, which are expected to lead to more discussions and studies.