SW 536 - Advanced Community-Based Practice I

Institution:

Portland State University

Subject:

Social Work

Description:

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 an assets-based, community development perspective to assist individuals, families, and communities of identity, functional communities, and organizations. Focuses on working as a team, utilization of community resources, and selection of appropriate multicultural assessment strategies. Explores individual 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. Co-requisite: SW 500.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pdx.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 725-3511

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Quarter

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