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Director鈥檚 Welcome

Welcome to the Phyllis and Harvey Sandler School of Social Work at 麻豆女郎!

Since 1970, the Sandler School of Social Work has provided well-regarded, highly sought academic degrees. Students are attracted to our programs because of the聽ethical, practice-relevant rigor聽with which our graduates are prepared for employment and our聽98% job-placement rate聽within three months of graduation. With more than 600 declared Social Work majors annually, our聽Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program聽is the largest in the state of Florida. The聽Master of Social Work (MSW)聽is ranked as a聽聽by U.S. News & World Report. Our graduates are widely-recognized for their depth of clinical expertise and are in great demand as senior practitioners and health, mental health and human service leaders.

In 2016, we launched our聽Doctorate of Social Work (DSW) program, the聽first in the state of Florida. We continue to graduate scholars that can speak to the various needs in our communities and be leaders in the field of clinical supervision, social work education and practice-oriented research. The school also offers specialization certificate programs in聽Addiction,听Child Welfare听补苍诲听Healthy Aging, and gold-standard continuing education courses through our聽Office of Professional Development.

The Sandler School of Social Work employs nearly 60 faculty and community-based adjunct instructors. 聽We also work with more than 800 active field education instructors across more than 200 agency settings in six Florida counties. Across the board, we are deeply committed to graduating the聽high-quality professionals聽for which we have become nationally prominent. In addition, our research faculty produce聽cutting-edge scholarship聽and bring it back into the classroom, thereby 聽transforming professional practice and continuously moving our profession toward the most cost-effective, ethical and humane means of addressing some of the most significant challenges confronting our society.

Social work is a major component of America鈥檚 health, mental health and social services. Social workers combat many of America鈥檚 greatest social problems in addictions, child welfare, disaster relief, gerontology, health, labor readiness training, mental health, the military, prisons, schools, seniors鈥� clinics, veterans鈥� affairs and other areas of human distress. The country鈥檚 more than 700,000 social workers are the mainstay of emergency, psychotherapeutic, and preventative services in public, private, and voluntary sector organizations.

In fact, there are聽聽than there are psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychiatric nurses,听combined. The聽聽describes social work as聽one of the country鈥檚 fastest-growing disciplines, with an anticipated 13% increase in personnel within the decade. Furthermore, the state of Florida has a聽聽for social work graduates.

We would like YOU to be a part of our future. Please feel free to call, write or stop by for a visit. We look forward to your association with our School as a student, alumni, community partner 鈥� or all three.

Precious Skinner-Osei, PhD, MSW
Interim Director and Associate Professor

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Mission and Goals

Council on Social Work Education's Board of Accreditation

The Phyllis and Harvey Sandler School of Social Work is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education鈥檚 Board of Accreditation.

Accreditation of a baccalaureate or master鈥檚 social work program by the Council on Social Work Education鈥檚 Board of Accreditation indicates that it meets or exceeds criteria for the assessment of program quality evaluated through a peer review process. An accredited program has sufficient resources to meet its mission and goals and the Board of Accreditation has verified that it demonstrates compliance with all sections of the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Accreditation applies to all program sites and program delivery methods of an accredited program.

Accreditation provides reasonable assurance about the quality of the program and the competence of students graduating from the program.