SW 8704 - Child Welfare: Policy Affecting Children, Youth, and Their Families

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: None.
Social Welfare Policy Affecting Children, Youth and Their Families builds on foundation policy courses and challenges students to think critically about how to best accomplish policy initiatives that focus on the needs of children and their families, that are in keeping with social work values and ethics, and that promote economic, political and social justice. Students will observe hearings and legislative sessions on state and local levels, and within agencies and organizations that are directed toward the living conditions of children, youth and their families. Particular attention will be given to policy affecting responses to the poor.