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Assessment Outcomes

The BSW program is fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education. 
View current (2025) BSW assessment data.

The MSW program is fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education. 
View current (2025) MSW assessment data.  

School of Social Work Strategic Plan

Please view the School of Social Work Strategic Plan here.

School of Social Work Mission Statement

The ¸£ÀûÌìÌÃר×¢¾«Æ·¸£Àû School of Social Work prepares students for the profession through transformative coursework and experiential practicum education opportunities that foster interprofessional collaboration. We develop visionary leaders who champion equity, justice, anti-oppressive practices and policies to advance the well-being of individuals and communities.

Master of Social Work Program Mission and Goals

The Mission of the MSW Program at ¸£ÀûÌìÌÃר×¢¾«Æ·¸£Àû is to develop clinically informed advanced practitioners. The program prepares culturally responsive, advanced professionals who are grounded in anti-oppressive, anti-racist, trauma-informed, strengths-based, and biopsychosocial practice models. Emphasis is placed upon systems across multiple levels in order to identify what can be done to effect change and strengthen relationships among individuals, families, and communities in order to promote optimal functioning. The program educates professionals who, grounded in social work’s history, purposes, and philosophy, integrate the values of the profession into an ethical approach to all professional activities at an advanced level of knowledge, skill, and competency.

MSW Program Goals

The MSW Program prepares students for advanced social work practice through an integrated practice framework — micro-informed (practice with individuals and families) macro practice and macro-informed (practice with groups, organizations, and communities) micro-practice. Students learn foundation and specialized clinical, organizational, policy, and research knowledge, values, and skills critical for effective micro, macro, and global social work practice. The six goals of the MSW Program provide an educational program that prepares graduate students:

1. through an integrated practice framework that prepares graduate students for advanced social work practice utilizing anti-racist, anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, strengths-based, and biopsychosocial practice models that support cultural responsiveness and promote social justice in practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
2. for practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities that is culturally responsive.
3. with the analytical skills and substantive knowledge essential for advanced social work practice that is policy- and research-informed, for assessing the effectiveness of current social work methods and developing more effective practice procedures with diverse client systems.
4. to develop the capacity, competence, and confidence to be leaders in public and private social service agencies in southeastern Massachusetts, statewide, regionally, and globally.
5. to promote and support research in practice and the development of knowledge to improve the effectiveness of social work practice, policies, and programs.
6. to promote social work practice based on the values and ethics of the social work profession. The coherence and integration of the curriculum is derived from the close relationship between the program goals and the knowledge base of the social work profession. The following theoretical bases provide the conceptual framework that informs the program curriculum:
   1. Anti-oppressive practice
   2. Anti-racist practice
   3. Systems framework
   4. Social justice
   5. Strengths-based framework
   6. Biopsychosocial framework