The Center for Applied Research and Evaluation (CARE) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville provides top quality research services to a multitude of clients on local, state, and national levels. In 2009, the College of Social Work’s Office of Research and Public Service (SWORPS) acquired the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), renaming it CARE. Under [...]
The Children’s Mental Health Services Research Center is an interdisciplinary research center in the College of Social Work. The center provides research, education, and services focused on organizations and systems that serve families and youth who are at risk of chronic emotional and behavioral problems that could follow them into adulthood. The center works with [...]
In October, 2008, the Grief Outreach Initiative was established through a partnership between the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling and Dean Bob Rider. Designed as an outreach activity for the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, the initial program goals included creating a training program on grief outreach, recruiting students from the College [...]
The College of Social Work has a proud tradition of over sixty years of social work education that prepares undergraduate and graduate students for social work practice and doctoral level graduate students for social work research and academia. The educational mission of the college is accomplished by faculty committed to the use of teaching methods [...]
History and Goal The goal of the Social Work Office of Research and Public Service (SWORPS) is to improve the quality of human service practice in the state, the Southeast, and in the nation for the benefit of human service workers, their agencies, and their clients. Since its inception in 1976, the office has secured [...]
