SCWK-60800 Advanced Policy: Children and Adolescents

This course builds on the foundation social welfare policy course, exploring in greater depth social policy impacting children and families in society. Students concentrating with Children and Adolescents take this advanced policy course to further their understanding of federal, state, and local laws and policies and systems that effect clients at the macro level. The course explores the purpose of policies, incidence and prevalence of social problems, and strategies to enhance policies leading to increase resilience in children and adolescents. Based in a risk and resilience model, the course examines issues of social justice and human rights

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Foundation curriculum