Community Partners
The Social Work Department is honored to work with so many great agencies and programs in our community. Our commitment to applied learning experiences to enhance students' knowledge and skills is evidenced through a range of opportunities including class projects for a partner agency, service-learning courses, student-initiated donation drives, on-campus events highlighting partner agencies, and our year-long field placement for seniors.
WNY Intimate Partner & Family Violence Consortium
The Consortium, established in 2023, provides a space for researchers, students, and the community to network, strategize, and advocate on the issues of intimate partner and family violence. The WNY Intimate Partner & Family Violence Consortium was formed by and is housed at Buffalo State University's Social Work Department.
The Consortium is committed to Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), which requires inclusive collaboration at every step of the research process with the ultimate goal of directing policy and social change. CBPR is done in the community, with the community, for the community.
The Consortium hosts speakers and conferences and provides a vehicle to translate research from academic walls to community members in digestible ways through workshops, trainings, fact sheets, policy briefs, podcasts, and social media.
Alumni Engagement
Alumni are the heart of our program and we love hearing about all the ways you have gone on to break barriers, help others, and build a stronger community. We’d love to stay connected and learn about the work you are doing! Please update your contact information so we can stay in touch!
We are also creating an Alumni Advisory Committee and we are recruiting members! The Advisory Board may help to fill various roles, including:
- Guest speak in social work classes
- Participate on panels
- Help with events for students & community members
- Become a supervisor for students in field placements
- Assist with fundraising
- Create videos or other media about your time at Buffalo State and the work you are currently doing
- Attend recruitment events for potential students
- Provide feedback on curriculum
- Offer information about community needs & how the Social Work department can prepare students to address these
- Extend applied learning opportunities, including volunteer, service learning, or donation drives to our students and the social work student organizations
- Mentor current students
- Share employment opportunities for current students and alumni
- Serve as a program Ambassador in the community
- Identify new members for the Committee
- Aid in the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accreditation process, including meeting with a representative during the Site Visit
- Suggest marketing updates
- Other activities the Alumni Advisory Committee recommends