Protect, strengthen, and empower families in your community. Child welfare and family services social workers advocate for children’s safety and well-being while helping families access the resources they need to stay together and succeed. Your work can change the course of a child’s life for the better.

Careers with a BA degree

  • Recovery advocate
  • Intake social worker
  • Family foster care social worker
  • Day habilitation worker
  • Juvenile intervention case manager
  • Adoption resource case worker
  • Adoption social worker
  • Family preservation specialist
  • At-risk coordinator
  • Child protection worker
  • Career coordinator

Careers with a MSW degree

Master level licensure may be required.

  • Clinical social worker
  • Family therapist
  • Social work supervisor
  • Inpatient psychiatric social worker
  • Home and school liaison
  • Child/youth therapist
  • Agency department manager
  • Couples therapist
  • School social worker