Social Work Transfer

If you want to make a difference in the lives of your community our Social Work Transfer is for you. Social Work is a profession dedicated to helping people function to the best of their ability and help them understand their life situations. At Washington State, we offer a two-year baccalaureate preparation track. It is designed to give you the fundamental skills required for you to successfully transfer to a baccalaureate program at an accredited institution.

While enrolled in our classes, you will learn how to help individuals, groups, families, organizations, and communities enhance or restore their ability for social functioning and to generate societal conditions favorable to their goal. You will also learn to develop relationships with clients to help them understand their environment, make choices, and influence their life situations through organization and advocacy.

This is a two-year program that results in an Associate of Arts Transfer Degree in Social Services. Graduates can begin working in the field upon successful completion of this program, however, it is specifically designed for those who wish to transfer into a Baccalaureate program.

Program Learning Outcomes:

• Meet the general education requirements of Washington State College of Ohio and be prepared to transfer to a four year institution.
• Distinguish oneself as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly.
• Engage diversity and multiculturalism in practice.
• Combat human rights and social and economic injustice.
• Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment.
• Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services.
• Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
• Consistently perform work habits such as: punctuality, productivity, verbal and written communication skills, cooperation with staff and clients and working within the policies, structures, and functions of social service agencies.
• Apply the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics and values consistent with the profession, to ethical situations.
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills needed as a helping professional such as active listening, critical thinking, appropriate verbal and non-verbal responses and written communication.
• Collect, organize and prioritize client assessment information needed to develop progress reports, social histories, case treatment plans and closing summaries.
• Monitor and evaluate clients’ success toward individualized goal attainment.
• Identify historical and current social welfare policy issues that impact professional agencies.