• To promote the profession of social work amongst Nigerian immigrants by encouraging and mentoring social work students, and by providing the avenue through which Nigerian social workers can develop their professional identity.
• To create a social service agency that provides culturally sensitive clinical and concrete services to recent immigrants irrespective of their race, creed, or national origin. Such services shall however target the traditionally under-served populations like Nigerians and other African immigrants whose worldviews and way of life are often in dissonance from the Western worldviews and way of life.
• To work collaboratively with others in the orientation of new immigrants, especially Nigerian, to the American way of life. To educate new immigrants about the American legal, social, economic and educational systems in order to enrich the totality of their immigration experience and to minimize the adverse effects of immigration.
• To educate recent immigrants on the vast mental health and social service resources available to them in the United States, and to draw their attention to the benefits they can derive from utilizing such services.
• To work collaboratively with child welfare professionals to reduce the incidents of child maltreatment amongst immigrant populations, especially amongst Nigerians.
• To provide culturally sensitive child welfare practice that balances child safety with family preservation.
• To reduce the number of African children going into foster care and to recruit native African foster parents for children separated from their natural parents or guardians.
• To support social structures and policies which promote justice. To consistently advocate on behalf of immigrants, especially the traditionally under-served immigrants like Nigerians and Africans.
• To contribute to the development of social work knowledge and research especially in the area of culturally sensitive practice with immigrants.
• To uphold the Nigerian heritage and expose children of Nigerian ancestry to the positive aspects of their culture and tradition and teach them ways to integrate these to the positive aspects of the American culture and way of life.
• To fight against TRIBALISM, NEPOTISM, and SECTIONALISM which have been the bane of the development of Nigeria.
• To influence the creation of an effective social welfare system in Nigeria that will act as a safety net for the unemployed or underemployed, the disabled, the elderly and other vulnerable members of society.
• To establish channels of communication with Nigeria's Social Welfare institutions in a bid to offer technical assistance and continuing educational opportunities for their professionals.
• To serve as mentors for social workers resident in Nigeria and to work collaboratively with them in addressing the myriad of problems facing Nigerians.
• To assist underprivileged people in Nigeria.
• To engage in specific projects which enhance the economic and social empowerment of Nigerians both in their country and in the United States.
• To publish a professional journal that promotes culturally proficient social work research and practice with diverse populations such as Nigerians and other Africans.
• To preserve the association as a non-tribal, non-sectional, non-political and non-religious organization.

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