Go to our small towns and you'll find young people with uncertain futures, unemployed and directionless. Pick up a newspaper and you'll find stories about child abuse, battered women and drug addicts.
Social work is an exciting, demanding and immensely rewarding profession.
It requires uncommon dedication and a commitment to strive for social reform. As a social worker, you could be helping couples resolve their marital problems, attending to the needs of an abused child, setting up a community association or drafting social policy legislation that could affect the lives of tens of thousands of people in need. We work from the premise that inequality and injustice are part of the existing social and economic order and that the structure of our society, rather than the failings of a particular individual or group, is largely accountable for Canada's social ills. The St. Thomas social work programme not only teaches its students to address their clients' immediate needs, it also challenges future social workers to see themselves as agents for social change. While the programme prepares graduates for social work practice anywhere in Canada, whenever possible, it reflects the concerns and issues particular to New Brunswick.