Program Mission and Goals

The mission of the Nazareth BSW Program is to educate ethical, competent social workers prepared for graduate education and generalist practice. The Nazareth BSW program provides a supportive, equitable and inclusive learning environment that facilitates learning among a diverse student body and emphasizes social work values as well as knowledge and skill development to improve the effectiveness of social work practice, programs and policies. The Nazareth BSW program prepares students to engage in strengths-based, culturally responsive, anti-racist, anti-oppressive practice and to advance human rights as well as social, racial, economic, and environmental justice.

1. Prepares competent, ethical, strengths-based generalist practitioners committed to culturally responsive, anti-racist, anti-oppressive practice with diverse populations and to advancing human rights as well as social, racial, economic and environmental justice.
2. Provides a supportive, equitable and inclusive learning environment that facilitates learning among a diverse student body and emphasizes social work values as well as knowledge and skill development to improve the effectiveness of social work practice, programs and policies.
3. Develops qualified candidates for graduate education and generalist practitioners dedicated to life-long learning.

Program Mission and Goals

The mission of the Nazareth MSW Program is to educate social work students to be ethical and competent advanced practitioners who, through collaborative and interprofessional practice, promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging and serve as leaders and changemakers.

1. Through the cultivation of knowledge, values and skills specific to the social work profession, develop ethical, professional and competent advanced practitioners who promote critical thinking and evidence-based practice processes 
2. Advance collaboration, leadership, and interprofessional practice skills to improve the effectiveness of practitioners and serve as changemakers
3. Valuing cultural humility, engage with diversity and difference to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging and address bias and oppression

Training Opportunities

• Learn about international social work practices through study abroad in India.
• Students and faculty can collaborate in clinical services, research, and the development of innovative practices in the Social Work Services clinic at Nazareth's York Institute.
• Get specialized preparation in school social work as well as working with school-age children with autism through Interdisciplinary Specialty Program in Autism (I-SPAN) specialization, for which the cost may be covered by a federal grant — the I-SPAN Scholars grant opportunity.
• Some funded traineeships are available for field education at community sites.

Options for current MSW students: Add an advanced certificate or specialization

• MSW Specialization and Advanced Certificate Request Form

Licensing

LICENSED MASTER SOCIAL WORKER

• License Requirements
• Application Forms

LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER

• License Requirements
• Application Forms
• "R" Psychotherapy Privilege

State Education Dept. memo: Requirements for LMSW Licensure

• Child Life Specialist
  

• Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) Track
  

• EDU 583 - Health Education/Child Abuse/Violence Prevention and Intervention Workshop
• EDU 593 - Harassment, Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Discrimination in Schools: Prevention and Intervention (DASA Training)
• SWK 052 - Child Abuse Prevention Workshop
• CAT 684 - Foundations of Play Therapy
• SWK 660 - School Social Work
• SWK 653 - Trauma: Evidence-Based Interventions

• Many choices for specialized coursework in early intervention
• SWK 563 - Parenting in Diverse Family Systems

• SWK 654 - Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health
• SWK 656 - Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• SWK 657 - Orientation to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

• PSY 534 - Issues in Aging
• PSY 555 - Aging and Community Service
• RES 566 - Meaning of Death

• AUT 660 - Exploring Autism from Multiple Perspectives
• AUT 661 - Autism Supports Across the Lifespan
• AUT 662 - Autism: A Contemporary Lens

More info: Interdisciplinary Specialty Program in Autism (I-SPAN)

• CAT 684 - Foundations of Play Therapy
• CAT 694 - Play Therapy and Trauma I
• CAT 695 - Play Therapy and Trauma II

MSW students interested in the field of addiction can complete Nazareth's three-course specialization:

• SWK 515 - Introduction to Substance Abuse and Addiction
• SWK 615 - Substance Abuse Treatment
• SWK 625 - Co-Occurring Disorders

You also have the option to be prepared to become a New York State credentialed alcoholism and substance abuse counseling-trainee (CASAC-T) by completing the CASAC track at Nazareth.

• HHS 651 - Introduction to Trauma
• HHS 574 - Secondary Trauma and Self-Care
• SWK 653 - Trauma: Evidence-Based Interventions