Master of Social Work - Child and Family Practices

Make a positive impact on children and families. The Child and Family Practice specialization focuses on four of the key social problems affecting individuals, including mental illness, intimate partner violence, poverty, and substance use. You will have the opportunity to expand your knowledge in a variety of practice areas. Our agency-based practice gives you the opportunity to take what you learn in the classroom and apply it to working with children and families. Through this experience, you will learn how to develop, deliver, and manage services to meet the needs of clients.

Must have earned a four-year bachelor's degree or its equivalent from a college or university that is accredited by the appropriate regional accrediting association, or do so within one academic yearpresent unofficial transcripts from each college or university other than Illinois State at which graduate, undergraduate, or non-degree credit was earned.A student applying to this program should have a GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in the last 60 hours of undergraduate coursework or any previous work in a master's program