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.
Master of Social Work
The Master of Social Work (MSW) program prepares scholar-practitioners who demonstrate culturally responsive, ethical, evidence-based practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. The curriculum emphasizes cultural humility within a strengths-based, generalist intervention model and provides advanced clinical skills needed for specialized practice. The program prepares students to be change agents within and beyond their local communities and to advocate for social justice on behalf of diverse populations, with particular attention to people who are vulnerable and/or oppressed.
Master of Social Work Field Office
The mission of the field office is to work collaboratively with MSW 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.
Master of Social Work
- Demonstrate the development of a professional orientation and identity as a social worker.
- Apply legal and ethical standards in clinical social work practice.
- Apply principles of advocacy that promote cultural understanding and positive social change.
- Utilize evidence-based research and critical-thinking skills to inform practice clinical social work practice in meeting the needs of diverse clientele.
- Synthesize and apply theories of human growth and development to develop culturally responsive social work practices.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills in the areas of engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation with individuals, families, and groups.