SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
College of Health and Human Services
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Strengths
Collaborative
DSS/Child Protective Services Faculty and staff work
with DSS/CPS agencies developing training for
implementing Strengths and Solution focused Child
Safety training. This approach incorporates strengths
based solution-focused practice and collaborations
with families and children.
Strengths/Solutions-Based
Public Schools Efforts are directed at bringing
Practice, Research and Training
strengths/resiliency based/solution-focused
approaches to community schools. Models such as
the Garza Independent High School in Austin Texas;
Learned Optimism; Classroom Solutions Model from
New River Middle school;. Mindfulness and social/
emotional learning and neuroscience practices.
Military Social Work: Trainings, workshops, and
interventions to assist military personnel and families.
Post-traumatic growth, PTSD, and physical injury
recovery. Also, two sequence courses in appreciating
war zone conditions and interventions and preventive
measures.
African-American Youth The collaborative is
making efforts to initiate research and trainings
focused on utilizing the strengths-based solution
focused interventions. The outcomes are intended to
assist in better and outcomes with the AfricanAmerican youth.
Mediation and Supervision Training
Workshops/ trainings in Solution-focused mediation
practice and supervision in a range of settings.
Neuroscience , Meditation , Positive
Psychology Study , research and practice related to
neuroscience and meditative practices
Strengths
Collaborative
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
College of Health and Human
Services
University of North Carolina
Wilmington
Phone: 910-962-3438
Fax: 910-962-7238
E-mail blundor@uncw.edu
halljc@uncw.edu
boltonk@uncw.edu
bowend@uncw.edu
The Strengths/Solutions
Collaborative
Is dedicated to promoting effective
services for Individuals, Families,
Groups, Schools, Organizations and
Communities.
Strengths/Solutions Collaborative
The Strengths/
Solutions based
Practice, Research and
Training Collaborative is
a partnership of
practitioners, agencies,
communities, trainers
and researches
dedicated to building
strengths-based and
solution focused
practices with individuals, families and communities.
The Collaborative is housed in the School of Social
Work at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Basic Tenets:

Every individual, group, family , and community
has strengths

Assume you do not know the upper limits of
growth and change that is possible

Clients are experts and work is client-directed
School of Social Work
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Training Program Offers specific training
Solution Focused Practice Group Those
activities designed to enhance the ability of
practitioners and educators to deliver strengths/
resiliency-based Solution-Focused Practices
services.
who are specifically interested in solutionfocused practice, research and publications in
a wide range of practice areas
,
Healing and the Mind Group For those
Education Program Disseminating
knowledge about strengths based solution-focused
teaching and school counseling . It creates
conferences , forums, and continuing education
opportunities for the community
interested in neuroscience research and
resulting practices such as mindfulness
meditation and positive psychology
Mission
The Collaborative is to work closely with practitioners
and educators in designing, delivering and evaluating
strengths/solution-focused approaches to human and
educational services, achieved through five major
programs, each of which has a variety of projects.
Programs
Resource Partners
Consultation Program Provides

Training Program

Education Program
consultation services to agencies, individuals, or
groups wishing to develop and evaluate strengthsbased and solution-focused practice within their
agency or service.

Consultation Program
Research Program Serves the function of

Research Program

Solution-Focused Practice Group
evaluating and developing various aspects of
strengths/ resiliency-based and solution-focused
services. Assists in practice based evidence
research.
Vicki Baldwin & Staff
Garza Independent High School
Austin, TX
Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association
Frankie Roberts
L.I.N.C. Inc
Wilmington, NC
New Hanover County
Department of Social Services
Child Protective Services Research Project