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Teaching Methods and Learning Styles

Session: Innovations in Social Work Education

MSW Program Model to Recruit/Retain Post-Traditional BIPOC Students: For Your Consideration

Friday, October 25, 2024
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 2502A
This presentation will suggest strategies for how MSW programs can become accessible to, and supportive of post traditional, including BIPOC students. A successful program model will be shared that enables students to maintain a work/life balance while attaining the full experience intended by MSW course and practicum curriculum.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will understand how one school of social work has met the needs of post-traditional BIPOC students through its Intensive Weekend Program model.
  2. Participants will consider how MSW curricula of the traditional MSW program can be modified to become more accessible to post-traditional BIPOC students, while adhering to traditional requirements, and maintaining integrity and rigor.
  3. Participants will recognize the importance of wrap around support for the post-traditional students.