Research strengths for the College of Social Work are centered on three key focus areas (see chart below). Most importantly, the College offers a key link often missing from most basic research: community engagement. Our faculty and students work with members of the community on issues related to health disparities and chronic diseases, poverty and income inequality, race, justice, aging, child abuse and neglect, social policy, food insecurity, violence and victimization, bullying, pregnancy prevention, early learning and childcare, substance abuse, mental health, faith and spirituality, interpersonal relations, and much more.   Click on the links at bottom to see which of our faculty are working in these areas. By making sure our community partners are actively engaged in all areas of research affecting them, we help to ensure that they have a stake in research that is derived by them, not on them.