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Mailing address:
PO Box 786
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Physical
Address
2400 E. Hartford Avenue
Enderis Hall 10th
and 11th Floors
Milwaukee WI 53211
PHONE:
414-229-4851
Fax: 414-229-5311
Email: ssw@uwm.edu
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Social
Work
 Welcome!
The Department of Social Work is one of two departments in the Helen
Bader School of Social Welfare. Accredited since 1965, we prepare
social work professionals with undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
While our faculty have a variety of areas of expertise, faculty specialties
are in child welfare, gerontology, and behavioral health. We house
the Center for Addiction
and Behavioral Health Research (CABHR), the Center
for Age and Community, and the Child
Welfare Training Program.
Our
Mission
The mission of the Department of Social Work is to provide scholarly
leadership for the profession of social work through teaching, research,
and service. Reflecting the metropolitan mission of UWM and the Helen
Bader School of Social Welfare, the Social Work Programs particularly
focus on metropolitan social problems, with a commitment to social
and economic justice, cultural diversity, and the empowerment of individuals,
families, groups, organizations, and communities to effect change.
Through
our Undergraduate Social Work program,
we prepare social work practitioners who demonstrate the knowledge,
skills, values and ethics of the profession and who are competent
for generalist practice at the BSW level.
Our goal
in the MSW program is to educate and
train advanced social work practitioners who demonstrate the knowledge,
skills, values and ethics of the profession and who are competent
for specialized practice and scholarly pursuits at the MSW level.
The Ph.D.
program in Social Work prepares students to make significant contributions
to social work education and the knowledge base of the profession.
Additional
Goals
The social work faculty are committed to the following goals:
- To
engage in the development and/or dissemination of social work and/or
interdisciplinary research and discourse that address either (1)
the prevention and/or amelioration of social and psychosocial problems,
and/or (2) the promotion of positive development and functioning
of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities;
- To
apply empirically supported methods to prevention and intervention
strategies, including practice at all levels of systems.
- To
address social and economic injustices by enhancing public understanding;
and,
- To
advocate for the prevention and resolution of contemporary social
problems, particularly for populations-at-risk.
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