School of Social Work Mission Statement 

The WNMU Social Work Program prepares and empowers students for culturally responsive and sustaining generalist (MSW advanced generalist) practice that promotes social, racial, economic, and environmental justice.

School of Social Work Goals 

1. Prepare students for effective, professional, advanced generalist social work policy practice and anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
2. Prepare students for lifelong learning, including graduate education and awareness of their responsibility to continue their professional growth and development.
3. Prepare students by incorporating the liberal arts perspective in the program’s pedagogy, which emphasizes development of critical thinking skills and a liberal arts perspective and incorporates a broad range of interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills.
4. Prepare students to conduct themselves ethically and engage in ethical decision making in order to ensure human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice.
5. Prepare students to engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research to assess, intervene, and evaluate.
6. Prepare students to engage in equitable and inclusive practice with diverse populations.
7. Prepare students to integrate technological advancement in their practice.
8. Prepare students for self-reflective practice by teaching the skills of self-reflection, self- evaluation, self-care, and self-correction for effective practice at multiple system levels.

School of Social Work MSW Mission Statement

School of Social Work BSW Mission Statement

The mission of the WNMU BSW program is to prepare students for culturally humble generalist practice through a person-in-environment framework, a global perspective, respect for human diversity, and scientific inquiry. The program is committed to fostering social work values and competencies that promote:

• Social, economic, racial, and environmental justice
• Individual and community well-being by preventing conditions that limit human rights
• The elimination of poverty through advocacy and systemic change
• The enhancement of quality of life for all individuals and communities

Through this mission, the program equips students with the knowledge, skills, and ethical foundation necessary to address complex social issues and create meaningful change.