School of Social Work: Please write a statement of purpose of approximately 500-1000 words indicating your objectives in undertaking graduate study. Please create your document using either Times New Roman or Arial font.
Please indicate your purpose and objectives in undertaking graduate study, your special interests and plans, and your strengths and weakness in your chosen field. In reviewing applications, considerable importance is placed on the applicant’s relevant experience as well as his or her interest in and commitment to advanced study and professional development.
Use the following points as a guide to summarize your volunteer and professional background:
- What experiences – professional, educational and organizational – led to or confirmed your interest in social work? If you considered another field before choosing social work, discuss your reason for wanting to make this change.
- What are the reasons for your decision to obtain graduate social work education at this time? What are your expectations of graduate social work education? What area(s) of difficulty do you anticipate? What have you done or are doing to address the difficulties?
- Please discuss a current issue in society related to social work and what you think are possible solutions to resolving the issue.
- What areas of social work interest you particularly?
Below you will some information about me to help with this statement of purpose;
- I have a BA in Special Ed/Early childhood Education
- A second BA in children and youth studies
- Social work practice interest: Families, children and youth
- Grew up from a low socio-economic area ((Brownsville Area))
- Witness violence and poverty
- Lived in a broken home (an alcoholic and abusive father) until I was 8 years old
- Grew up in single parent home with 4 siblings (raised by our wonderful mother)
- Lived in welfare/ public housing
- Worked at daycares in the past, I am now working with special needs at private school, I also worked as children ministries director and now I am a youth chaplain at my local church
