Graduate School of Social Work
Child Welfare
The Child Welfare concentration prepares you to for work with children and families served in public and private child welfare agencies. Most of these children and families have experienced child maltreatment. Many of these families are also experiencing poverty, domestic violence, mental illness and substance abuse.
As a child welfare social worker, you'll investigate reports of child maltreatment and conduct assessments of risk and safety. You'll also address issues of family support, family preservation, foster care, kinship care, independent living, adoption and guardianship.
Intervention is focused on building individual and family strengths, preventing and alleviating the consequences of child maltreatment, and promoting the safety, permanence and well-being of children who have suffered, or are at risk of, child maltreatment.