Mission and Vision

To facilitate the discovery and advancement of social work knowledge through community partnerships and interdisciplinary research, with a commitment to dissemination of findings and technology transfer.

• Be an international leader in social work research to improve social functioning and inform public policy.
• Link research and practice through community partnerships.
• Facilitate interdisciplinary research that creates knowledge required to intervene across multiple systems and client groups.
• Establish appropriate intra- and inter-institutional affiliations and consortia to carry out this research.
• Present and publish research results in the public domain, disseminating major findings to the scientific community, policy makers and the social work profession.
• Be a training ground for graduate students and new investigators.