SWRK 715 - Practice with Families and Communities Experiencing Poverty

Institution:

Saint Louis University-Main Campus

Subject:

Social Work

Description:

The Professional Foundation plus one Concentration Core course. Designed to bring together students across concentrations to examine the needs of families., neighborhoods, and communities struggling with high levels of poverty and its effects. Based on social work's historical mission of intervention in high-risk commnunities while advocating for social reform, this course is aimed at using the ecological model to develop an understanding multilevel assessment and practice focused on empowering families, neighborhoods,and communities. This course recognizes the pattern of social and economic injustices based on racial, ethnic socialcultural, and gender characteristics that result in inequitable distribution of poverty.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.slu.edu

Phone Number:

(314) 977-2222

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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