Social workers improve people's lives and help them to function the best they can in their environment by addressing important, practical issues in their lives.

Some areas these professionals help people address include:
- relationship skills
- personal and family problems
- inadequate housing
- unemployment
- serious illness or disability
- many other social problems

Social work is a practical ministry, promoting social welfare services and policies which bring about greater justice and meet basic human needs. The goal of the training this program provides will be to prepare
students for work both in the US and internationally.