School of Social Work

Through your classwork and your experience in the field, you’ll learn:

• to see the world through a social work lens – meeting people where they are at and facilitating their growth and development towards their own definition of a life well lived.
• evidence-based interventions focused on facilitating change, growth and development for all clients/client systems
• deeper understanding of the systems and factors that impact our communities

Want to change the world? We got you!

• Want to help individuals, families, groups create change in their own lives? We got you!
• Want to help communities create change for their members either in mutual support, organization, or how the community operates? We got you!
• Want to change/make the rules about how our social policies work? We got you!

A Program Grounded in the Values of Equity and Social Justice

As a community, we don’t just talk about the importance of these values, we have spent time exploring what they mean to us as a community and are vested in actually doing the work to create a more equitable and inclusive society. 

Our faculty have engaged in equity focused trainings to help us understand and address when our policies and practices are not creating equitable opportunities and outcomes. Additionally, faculty members actively engage with the SSU community to move towards belongingness and inclusion by serving as Provost Faculty Fellows for our HSI Roadmap work, chairing the research IRB, and as the Provost Faculty Fellow for Inclusive Excellence.