Social Work

Overview

This Social Work at California State University Stanislaus teaching and learning environment enables faculty, students and graduates to collaborate with others to transform the conditions which contribute to privilege and oppression. Graduates are prepared to use an advanced integrative practice approach to work with individuals, families and communities to promote personal and collective liberation.

Program Goals:

• Prepare professional social workers to engage with diverse populations in a process of critical reflection and action to address oppression and promote social justice.
• Prepare professional social workers to engage in the struggle to understand and transform their biases.
• Prepare social workers to use an integrative practice framework for multi-system interventions guided by ethics and informed by research.
• Prepare professional social workers to assume leadership roles in meeting the social service needs of the region.
• Create a learning environment based on principles of social justice where faculty and students participate in the development of knowledge that contributes to improving the social conditions of the region.
• Create partnerships with community constituents based on principles of social justice that allow faculty and students to participate, both as leaders and learners, in the development of social work knowledge and service delivery systems.