School of Social Work - Ghana

and Housing under Gazette Notice No.947. Its mandate is to train generic frontline social workers to deliver integrated social welfare services within facilities and programs that promote social development, social justice and social functioning of people. Thus, grandaunts of the school take up positions in the DSW as Social Welfare Officers, Rehabilitation Officers, Community Development Officers, Probation Officers, and Hospital Welfare Officers. These sectors and settings they work are developed to help people function more satisfactory in their interaction with others and thus lead more fulfilling lives. They are designed to help and improve the wellbeing of individuals, families, groups and communities and create a caring and just society which respects human rights. With socio economic and political changes with time coupled with the fact that social welfare services entails extensive cooperation with a number of Ministries, Departments, Agencies, Individuals, Communities and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) among others, the school extended the target trainees to include officers from the Ghana Prisons, Police, Ghana ports and harbor authority, Faith-Based Organizations(FBO),Non-Governmental Organizations(NGOs) and Individuals. This development was aimed at ensuring that social welfare services are rendered by a professional highly-skilled social welfare workforce well positioned in the social service sector in tackling vulnerability, social exclusion and social protection.