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Alumni Success Story

Cassandra Boyd ’17

I spent my first two years of undergraduate at another bigger school pursuing a nursing degree. But something about that school didn’t feel right. Not only did the degree I was pursuing feel off, but I felt like a number, like professors didn’t seem to care if I made it through.

Ready to transform and renew

The social work program prepares students for community-centered generalist social work practice, but it does so much more as well. Taught from a Christian perspective, the program emphasizes that community well-being is essential to a common good, that each community has gifts and assets, and we are called to participate in the life of a community. Students leave on fire to make a difference in the world.

Review our 2018-2019 Annual Review of the Social Work program.

Majors

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Major

Social Work

With a B.S.W. degree from Trinity, you will be prepared to help change lives and communities. Our program emphasizes that community well-being is essential to a common good, that each community has gifts and assets, and that we are called to participate in the life of a community.

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Faculty Focus

Cini Bretzlaff-Holstein

Associate Professor of Social Work; Director of Social Work Program; Department Chair

Dr. Cini Bretzlaff-Holstein, assistant professor of social work, states, “They realize that the diversity they experience in the classroom is just the tip of the iceberg compared to what they’ll experience once they enter the social work field.”

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