While women contine to be denied access to the same kind of correctional programs and services received by men, their incarceration rates are increasing at a faster pace than arrest rates. In the past, social work has been primarily involved with offenders indirectly through the extension of child welfare services to children of incarcerated women. These services have often resulted in such women losing custody of their children while few efforts have been made to enhance the relationship between mother and child during the mother's confinement. Social work is oriented toward a positive and healthy interaction between an individual and his/her environment. Given this orientation, social workers can hardly support the incarceration of women, particularly those convicted of nonviolent offenses, as providing a healthy environment conducive to more responsible living. Social workers should become advocates for community-based corrections approaches for women, so they may learn to avail themselves of services and develop constructive living patterns in a normative and supportive environment. Social workers are schooled to deal with individuals in a systems context, i.e., in interaction with other people and the total living environment. Community-based corrections that focus on the person-situation interaction is an appropriate context for social work operations. Social workers should act as enablers to assist clients in making responsible decisions, as service brokers to link clients with needed community services, and as advocates to help women receive the community resources they require. Fourteen references are provided.