SW 536 Advanced Community-Based Practice I

First of 3-course concentration that emphasizes the person-environment interplay with a focus on the identification of multilevel assessment strategies in collaboration with local citizens, leaders, associations, and institutions. Utilizes assets-based, community development perspective to assist individuals, families, neighborhoods, and functional communities and organizations in identifying and meeting community social justice needs. Focuses on strategies for engaging groups, communities, and organizations using multicultural communication techniques and other qualitative assessment approaches. Identifies individual, group, and community resilience while assisting in assessing local strategies that strengthen protective factors and lower risk factors for ethnically and culturally diverse families, schools, neighborhoods, and communities.