Mission Statements
University
Walden University provides a diverse community of career professionals with the opportunity to transform themselves as scholar-practitioners so that they can effect positive social change.
College of Social and Behavioral Health
The College of Social and Behavioral Health provides inclusive, accessible education promoting individual and systemic change.
The Barbara Solomon School of Social Work
Prepares a diverse group of highly qualified social workers who engage in advocacy and intervention based on inclusive best practices across all continuums including behavioral healthcare.
Bachelor of Social Work
The BSW program’s mission is to cultivate the development of generalist social work scholar-practitioners who are able to provide ethical, evidence-based services to individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. With the BSW degree, social workers are prepared to use critical thinking skills and evidence-based practice to engage in generalist social work.
Bachelor of Social Work Field Office
The mission of the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) Field Office is to work collaboratively with BSW students, social work faculty members, and social work agencies to provide quality field experience opportunities that allow Walden students to apply classroom knowledge, values, and skills to practice settings.
Vision Statements
University
Walden University envisions a distinctively different 21st-century learning community where knowledge is judged worthy to the degree that it can be applied by its graduates to the immediate solutions of critical societal challenges, thereby advancing the greater global good.
College of Social and Behavioral Health
The College of Social and Behavioral Health endeavors to educate social change agents for a healthier, more compassionate, and just world.
The Barbara Solomon School of Social Work
The Barbara Solomon School of Social Work strives to be the leading provider of accessible, inclusive social work education, promoting change across multiple systems, including behavioral healthcare.
Goals
University
- To provide multicontextual educational opportunities for career learners.
- To provide innovative, learner-centered educational programs that recognize and incorporate the knowledge, skills, and abilities students bring into their academic programs.
- To provide its programs through diverse process-learning approaches, all resulting in outcomes of quality and integrity.
- To provide an inquiry/action model of education that fosters research, discovery, and critical thinking and that results in professional excellence.
- To produce graduates who are scholarly, reflective practitioners and agents of positive social change.
Bachelor of Social Work
- Demonstrate an understanding of what is needed to develop a professional orientation and identity as a generalist social worker.
- Apply ethical standards and values to generalist social work practice.
- Advocate for social change through promoting social, economic, and environmental justice.
- Utilize evidence-based research to inform the practice of serving traditionally oppressed and disenfranchised populations.
- Apply theories of human growth and development to social work practice.
- Apply culturally competent intervention skills as a generalist social worker.
BSW Program Description
The goals of the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program are derived from the mission statement of the program and the school. The Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree is designed to prepare students to serve individuals, families, and groups as generalist social workers. All students in the program will complete coursework, generalist skills training, and supervised field experiences, and they will receive support designed to prepare them for ethical and competent practice as professional social workers. Walden University BSW graduates will be prepared to utilize their social work skills to promote positive social change and advocate for human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.