2. Who’s Who?
Project Lead Designee:
Charlotte Goodluck, Ph.D., BSW Program Director, School of
Social Work
Primary Collaborators:
Michael Taylor,Ph.D., CFS faculty, BSW Program Committee,
Family Studies Cluster Coordinator, University Studies
Dana Fuller, MSW, MSW Distance Program Coordinator/SSW
Katharine Cahn, Ph.D. Center for the Improvement of Child
and Family Services/SSW
Community Partners:
Gary Smith, MSW, MSW Distance Program, Bend, Oregon
Gretchen Thiele, MSW, MSW Distance Program, Ashland,
Oregon
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3. Who Are We? Contextual Factors
School of Social Work
Ph.D. Program The BSW Program
20 years Started in 2008, with
MSW Program 34 students, based on
50th Year serving Oregon as local and statewide
the only School of Social demand for BSW level
Work. practitioners.
20 years providing We accept 60 students
statewide distance
education sites for MSW each Fall as a cohort.
students in Bend, Ashland Accredited in 2011 by
and Eugene. the Council on Social
Child & Family Studies Work Education.
20 years as Interdisciplinary
Professional Program at PSU
Experience in online access
and education.
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4. Pipeline For Success
The BSW Program has been successful in
recruitment, retention, and graduation of a high
percentage of students representing:
Non-traditional students, 1st generation, transfer from
community colleges, high diversity (race, ethnicity),
working full time, and required to travel long distances
to attend classes on PSU campus.
Of cohort 3: 55% were students of color; cohort 4: 40%
students of color and cohort 5: 47.5% were students of
color.
The graduation rate for cohort 1 was 76%, cohort 2:
83%, and cohort 3: was 72%.
Overall graduation rate for entering freshman at PSU is
30-35%. 4
Human services organizations across Oregon need
5. Need for Generalist Social Workers
The increasing need for social workers is particularly acute in
Oregon.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has determined that from
2010 to 2020 the overall need for social workers will increase
by 24.8% … (U.S. Department of Labor, 2012).
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Oregon’s total number of social workers per capita is
135 per 100,000 people resulting in a rank of 34th among
states (Oregon State Board of Clinical Social Workers,
December 2007).
Social workers are employed in many settings across Oregon:
DHS, Veterans, mental health centers, homeless services,
social services, hospitals, youth, DV, etc.
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6. Statewide Need
The community demand is for generalist social workers who
can work with a variety of populations served by agencies
including: child welfare, public human services, veteran’s,
homeless, youth, aging, health, mental health, rural social
services and family services.
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7. The Task
To fund and implement a statewide online
Needs Assessment.
Augmented with GIS enhanced software for
analytical purposes re results and mapping what
currently exists and mapping with program
needs/resources.
To find out exactly what the State of Oregon
needs regarding undergraduate social work
education.
Target Audience: Small, rural, reservation based and
remote communities across Oregon.
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8. Goals of PSU BSW Program
“To provide a statewide program with the goal of
preparing generalist social workers who are
informed and effective leaders in challenging
injustice and promoting social and economic
change”.
This project is to map and match community needs,
student demand, and statewide access for rural and
tribal communities.
This goal was authorized by the BSW Program
Committee, School of Social Work in tandem with
community advocates in the early planning stages of
the BSW Program.
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9. Matching and Mapping: Community
Needs and Student Demand and Access
Historical and Tribal
Lands and Access
County Subdivisions
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10. Steps to Success
1. Identify the need with the development of an strategic GIS
enabled online needs assessment survey to go to
stakeholders within the state of Oregon;
2. Develop the online needs assessment with questions related
to service providers, health care services, community
agencies which already exist;
3. Take the data and analyze it using GIS software;
4. Present the findings and with this information take the
necessary steps to construct a online distance statewide
BSW Program.
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11. Program Possibilities
Depending on the results of the Needs Assessment
Design, implement, and grow an online and hybrid BASW
degree to match with the needs of the State of Oregon
workforce needs.
Work closely with community colleges, UNST, and CLAS
for degree completion.
Build on capacity of current MSW program distance sites
as platform for expanded access to community-based and
online degree completion.
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12. “Providing a Pathway to Access
Social Work Education”
Numerous stakeholders around the state have stated for
several years they want access to the BASW degree
throughout Oregon.
Students will take advantage of this when developed.
Communities will be enhanced by offering this degree and it
will provide a pathway for degree completion.
Students can apply for Advanced Standing MSW Program and
complete Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in 5 years.
Will build on and expand the expertise and community
partners of the MSW Distance site to additional rural and tribal
communities.
Foster continued position relationships with tribal communities
and local community colleges.
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