Jenifer McCauslin '10, YWCA
To me personally, social work is my “dream job”. I grew up watching members in my family give back to the community and do everything they could to better the lives of others. I feel called to the social work career because I have always wanted to help and enable a better or easier life for another individual or family. I began Saint Mary’s thinking strictly about teaching however, after experiencing a social work class and discovering what all I could do with a degree in social work and everyone I could help, I fell right into place in the social work career.
I have always loved volunteering and interacting within my community. However, I had never thought much about a career in social work until arriving at Saint Mary’s.
Do you want to develop a greater sensitivity to and appreciation of the diversity of being human? Would you like to provide professional social services or intellectual expertise to help others live a more satisfying life? With an undergraduate degree in Social Work from SMC, completion of an MSW through advanced standing, and one year of professional social work experience in a medical or psychiatric setting, you would qualify for over 178 Social Work jobs currently listed on the Veteran's Administration website! Also, an interesting and informative article from the New York Times looking at the future of jobs for women in America can be found here.
The Social Work Program at Saint Mary's College is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). |  |
With a firm grounding in social work values and ethics, students will work for social and economic justice with oppressed populations in society, in the workplace, and in civic, home and spiritual communities.
Social Work specifically prepares students to provide professional social services across a spectrum of social systems. By employing a generalist orientation, students apply problem-solving techniques to help people with all types of problems.
Social workers make a difference by working with
