Centers, Offices & Initiatives
Centers
Center for Child Well-Being
The Center provides an integrated and comprehensive approach to the continuous improvement of permanency, safety and services to vulnerable children and families and to the optimal functioning of child welfare systems.
Family Violence Center
The Family Violence Center is a non-partisan center that engages in research, public policy work, program evaluation, and education and training designed to eradicate family violence.
Global Center for Applied Health Research
Social dislocation adversely affects the well-being of children and youth in Mexico, Central America and other emerging economies which in turn affects the US.
Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center
The Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC) is an Exploratory Center of Excellence conducting transdisciplinary minority health and health disparities research, training and community outreach.
Offices
Office of American Indian Projects
The Office of American Indian Projects (OAIP) was founded in 1977, based on the advocacy of the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, the Indian Health Services, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Navajo Nation, the Phoenix Indian Center, and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. The purpose of OAIP is to develop the capacity of American Indian communities and programs.
Office of Community Health, Engagement, and Resiliency
ASU’s Office of Community Health, Engagement, and Resiliency’s mission is to co-create interventions with communities that focus on inherent strengths and assets that promote resiliency, especially with underserved communities of color, and to create or strengthen pathways of opportunity for all people to achieve their full potential.
Office of the
Distinguished Professor
Distinguished Professor
This office highlights the exceptional work of professor Emilia Martinez-Brawley, specifically relating to social service delivery in rural areas, intercultural issues and different ways of understanding.
Office of Forensic Social Work Research and Training
The Office of Forensic Social Work Research and Training was established to explore questions and issues related to the application of professional social work expertise to legal matters. Forensic social work is one of the fastest growing sub-specialties in the profession of social work. Broadly speaking, it refers to the various interactions between the fields of law and social work.
Office of Gender-based Violence (OGBV)
Together with community partners, grass-roots organizations, social workers, and survivors we aim to reimagine interventions for those affected by gender-based violence. We will accomplish our goals through academic research, community education and advocacy, and collaboration with community agency partners.
Office of Gerontological and Interprofessional Initiatives
The Office of Gerontological & Interprofessional Initiatives was established to support and promote the preparation of baccalaureate and graduate social workers for professional practice with older adults and their families.
Office of Global Social Work
The Office of Global Social Work was established to foster global connections and international relations by developing and sharing experiences and opportunities, good practices among social work practitioners, scholars, educators and students in a global environment, and provide an opportunity to engage in international collaborations to promote international social work practice, education and research.
Office of Latino Projects
The Office of Latino Projects is a social and economic justice resource center providing information, data and policy analysis about the growing Latino population in the U.S. and in the Southwest Border Communities for scholars, community agencies and advocates, public sector organization, foundations and think tanks.
Office of Offender Diversion and Sentencing Solutions
The Office of Offender Diversion and Sentencing Solutions (OODSS) promotes the use of scientific evidence in designing and evaluating sentencing policies and practices for pre-booking and post-booking diversion programs, pre-sentence and post-conviction proceedings, and offender reentry programs for adult and juvenile offenders.
Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research (STIR)
The Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research (STIR) is a central source of research on domestic sex trafficking which will inform the decisions made by those who contact victims and perpetrators of sex trafficking including law enforcement and prosecutors, educators, medical services and social services. The STIR office is staffed by academics, researchers and law enforcement community research partners.
Southwest Collaborative on Immigration, Inequality and Poverty
The Southwest Collaborative on Immigration, Inequality and Poverty (SCIIP) explores ways to serve as researchers in the community who are helping to build on community strengths while gathering information that can inform our understanding of immigration, poverty, social and economic inequality, social justice, human rights, globalization, social empathy, and the intersection of these issues.
Initiatives
Child Welfare Education Program
The Child Welfare Education Program (CWEP) is a collaborative effort between the Arizona State University School of Social Work and the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS). Students involved in the program receive financial assistance while pursuing their degrees in social work. In return, students contractually commit to work for DCS upon graduation. If you believe that you have the ability to make a difference for vulnerable families, then a career in child welfare may be a good fit for you. The ASU School of Social Work Child Welfare Education Program can prepare you to engage with families in a meaningful and transformational way.
Integrative Health Initiative
The Integrative Health Initiative (IHI) aims to enhance students' knowledge of integrative health practices. IHI was designed to provide students with extensive knowledge of integrative health practices through directed health professionals and ASU faculty drawn from across disciplines, research opportunities and skills that support a student in developing a mindfulness practice.