JSU BSW Mission Statement and Goals
BSW Mission Statement
The mission of the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree program at Jacksonville State University is to prepare generalist practitioners with the knowledge, skills, values, and interests to prepare them for life-long learning, ongoing professional development, and service to advance individual and societal well-being. The BSW program succeeds through partnerships of service and a central focus of being a regionally responsive, community-based, and practice-centered program.
BSW Program Goals
The JSU BSW Program has five program goals that are derived from the program’s mission. Below we identify the program goals and the relationship between the program mission and goals.
1.To educate social work students as competent generalist social work practitioners prepared for practice with diverse client systems, in diverse communities, and in organizations of various sizes and types.
2.To prepare students to maintain high professional standards through an academic foundation grounded in the liberal arts and person-in-environment framework.
3.To prepare students to pursue social and economic justice, the prevention of conditions that limit human rights, the elimination of poverty and inequality, and the enhancement of the quality of life for all.
4.To prepare students to apply scientific inquiry and critical analysis to evidence-based practice interventions and to evaluate their own practice outcomes.
5.To foster an environment for students to develop a professional identity that incorporates the values and ethics of the social work profession guided by the NASW Code of Ethics.