Social Work

  • Mission Statement
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    • The Program seeks to train entry-level social work practitioners who are prepared to meet the growing, unique, and varied social service needs of the diverse communities of Brooklyn and greater New York. These practitioners will have strong clinical, advocacy, and administrative skills that they will put to use in community based organizations throughout the area. As the only social work program in Brooklyn, The LIU B.S.W. Program will place emphasis on working with the growing geriatric population; with racially, ethnically, and socially diverse groups; and with immigrant populations.

    • The Program distinguishes itself by tailoring the curriculum to reflect and respond to the educational needs of a non traditional, ethnically diverse student body that will work with an equally diverse population of three million people within Brooklyn. It further distinguishes itself by affording local community based organizations an opportunity to articulate their needs for well trained generalists by encouraging them to have direct influence on the Program's curriculum. The program also seeks to prepare students for social work graduate study and for advanced standing in graduate programs.

    • PROGRAM GOALS
    • In accordance with the its mission and CSWE criteria, the Program will do the following:

      1. Provide students with a strong liberal arts foundation that supports a social work curriculum with content about social work practice with client systems of various sizes and types.
      2. Prepare graduates to practice with diverse populations and in particular the racially, ethnically, socially, economically diverse, and immigrant populations in Brooklyn and greater New York area

      3. Offer courses and other learning experiences about the social context of social work practice, the changing nature of those contexts, the behavior of organizations, and the dynamics of change.

      4. Infuse throughout the curriculum the values and ethics that guide professional social workers in their practice.

      5. Prepare graduates who are aware of their responsibility to continue their professional growth and development that includes graduate study, especially in social work.
      6. Develop the Social Work Program to serve as a resource for groups and organizations whose mission and purpose is the uplifting of their racially, ethnically, socially, economically diverse and immigrant constituencies in the Brooklyn and greater New York area.