Rebecca Rivera, PhD, LCSW-R
Department Chair, Assistant Professor
Rebecca.Rivera@liu.edu
The profession of social work is growing. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2018) projects a high demand for social workers due to job growth in fields, such as mental health and substance abuse, and settings, such as hospitals. It’s never been a better time to join this dynamic and diverse profession.
The program prepares entry-level social work practitioners to meet the growing, unique and varied social service needs of the diverse communities of Brooklyn, New York City, and beyond. Graduates of the program have strong clinical, advocacy and administrative skills that they use in community-based, governmental, and for-profit organizations across the region.
The program partners with local community-based organizations to provide well-trained generalist practice social workers, prepared to work with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities through a variety of methods.
In addition to preparing students for careers in social work, the program also prepares students who seek to pursue a graduate degree in social work and in other related fields. Students who successfully complete the program may be eligible for advanced standing in a graduate program in Social Work. With Advanced Standing, students only need to complete one-year of graduate study to earn their master degree.
Social Work students are required to complete a total of 120 credits, 47 credits in social work, including successful completion of a 400-hour internship in the senior year.
In order to be considered by the BSSW Program, you must apply for admission to Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus. Please apply online at My LIU For more information on the university admissions process, visit the Office of Admissions website.
Once a LIU Brooklyn student, you can you can declare a social work major at any time. However, only students meeting the following criteria will be considered in good standing in the BSSW Program:
Program Outcomes
Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, BSSW Program
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Rebecca Rivera, PhD, LCSW-R | Department Chair, Chief Administrator/MSW Program Director, Assistant Professor | (718) 246-4076 | rebecca.rivera@liu.edu |
Jessica Rosenberg, PhD, LCSW | Professor | (718) 246-6443 | jessica.rosenberg@liu.edu |
Samuel Rosenberg, PhD, LCSW | DSW Program Director, Professor | (718) 780-4520 | samuel.rosenberg@liu.edu |
Marquis Chandler, PhD, MSW | BSSW Program Director, Assistant Professor | (718) 780-6560 | marquis.chandler@liu.edu |
Roxanne Ruiz-Adams DSW, LCSW |
Assistant Professor |
(718) 488-1143 |
roxanne.ruiz-adams@liu.edu |
Menachem Dubovick, LCSW | BSSW Director of Fieldwork Education | (718) 780-4124 | menachem.dubovick@liu.edu |
The purpose of the Phi Alpha Iota Chi Honor Society is to provide a closer bond among social work students and to promote humanitarian goals and ideals. Phi Alpha Iota Chi fosters high standards of education for social workers and invites into membership those who have attained excellence through scholarship and achievement in the field of social work.
The idea of a national social work honors society was conceptualized by a group of undergraduate social work students at Michigan State University in 1960. Investigation revealed that local chapters existed at three schools. Those three schools along with a few others formed a National Honor Society Committee in November 1960. For more than a year, the Committee worked to develop the organization’s constitution. The name Phi Alpha and the key insignia were adopted from the local chapter that existed at Florida State University. The constitution and formal organization were completed in 1962, and six chapters qualified to become "charter chapters." They were: Florida State University, Michigan State University, Ohio Northern University, Central State College, University of Dayton and the University of Tennessee. Today, Phi Alpha consists of more than 155 chapters. And, new chapters continue to be added. Phi Alpha offers membership to social work students, faculty members and practitioners. Each chapter is free to develop a program to meet local needs. The National Council is the policy-making body and meets each year at the time and place of the annual program meeting of CSWE. Each chapter has one voting representative on the Council.
National Qualifications For Chapter Membership
National Qualifications for Individual Membership
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