S.S.W. Essential Advocacy/Community Capacity Building Skills

This course focuses on the skills, knowledge and perspectives required to work effectively in communities and in social service practice areas requiring advocacy skills. Knowledge of what constitutes a healthy community, engagement of citizens to determine and realize community goals, social determinants of health and their relationship to engaged citizenship and social justice and optimizing community strengths will be emphasized. Students will become more familiar with definitions of community, methods of community engagement, and social justice as it applies to communities.