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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: CHILD ADVOCACY Credits: 3.00 Culturally Competent Practice in Child Advocacy. Prerequisites: CHAD 501. This course will explore the three major components of cultural competency necessary for effective child advocacy: value base, knowledge, and skills. The course will focus on enabling students to examine the values that are necessary for a culturally competent understanding and response to children and families, specifically accepting the existence of biases and developing a commitment to stregths-based models that rely on respect for diversity and working toward empowerment as a goal for intervention. Culture is defined broadly, and the course will expose students to a range of belief systems common in different groups concerning child rearing, child maltreatment, and health and mental health. Students will work on issues in interviewing and engaging children and families from different cultural groups. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: CHILD ADVOCACY Credits: 3.00 Adolescents and the System. Prerequisites: CHAD 501, CHAD 502, CHAD 503. This course will take a comprehensive approach to understanding the multitude of issues and circumstances that bring adolescents to the attention of the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Placement options for adolescents and independent living programs will be reviewed. Variables of substance abuse, mental health disorders, and educational deficits will be discussed in relation to outcomes for adolescents. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: CHILD ADVOCACY Credits: 3.00 Substance Abuse and Family Crisis. Prerequisites: CHAD 501, CHAD 502, CHAD 503. This course will explore the impact of substance abuse on families involved with the child welfare system. Current research regarding the connection between substance abuse, domestic violence and child abuse will be reviewed. Residential and outpatient models of treatment will be evaluated. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: CHILD ADVOCACY Credits: 3.00 Family Empowerment Models for Child Advocates. Prerequisites: CHAD 501, CHAD 502, CHAD 503. This course will focus on techniques that will empower families in crisis. Model programs grounded in a strengths-based approach will be analyzed. Strategies to help families utilize their unique human and social capital to build community and kinship support systems will be discussed. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: CHILD ADVOCACY Credits: 3.00 Child Protective Service Investigation. Prerequisites: CHAD 501, CHAD 502, CHAD 503. This course will examine the investigatory process set down by Title 9 and Title 30. Methods and techniques for interviewing parents and children who come to the attention of the child proective service system will be reviewed. Proceedings such as the Order to Show Cause, Fact Finding, Permanency Hearings, and Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) will be discussed. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: CHILD ADVOCACY Credits: 3.00 Permanency Planning. Prerequisites: CHAD 501, CHAD 502, CHAD 503. This course will define and review the various meanings of permanency. Age appropriate and comprehensive plans for children in out-of-home placement will be explored. Consideration will be given to attachment and separation issues that result from broken familial bonds. Concurrent planning and adoption practices will be reviewed and critiqued. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: CHILD ADVOCACY Credits: 3.00 Child Welfare Policy. Prerequisites: CHAD 501, CHAD 502, CHAD 503. The course will compare and contrast historical and contemporary trends in child welfare policy. Factors that contribute to legislative decision-making as well as the role of the media in shaping public opinion will be considered. Community perceptions of the child welfare system will be examined. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: CHILD ADVOCACY Credits: 3.00 Advocacy in Child Behavioral Health. Prerequisites: CHAD 501. This course will explore major issues in accessing behavioral health care of children, with particular emphasis on advocacy within the public behavioral health care system in New Jersey. Students will be introduced to the common language of behavioral health providers, and major issues in assessment and treatment. The course will provide an overview of evidence based interventions, including the use of psychotropic medication, as well as the principles and values of the current system of care. Students will explore the appropriateness of various levels of care for different kinds of difficulties. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: CHILD ADVOCACY Credits: 3.00 Seminar: Selected Topics in Child Advocacy. Prerequisites: CHAD 501, CHAD 502, CHAD 503 and three other graduate courses in Child Advocacy. This course will focus on current and relevant issues in child advocacy. It will rely on specialists in the field to present their research or area of expertise to interested students. It will also provide students with an opportunity to research the literature within their fields of interest. May be repeated once for a maximum of 6.0 credits. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: CHILD ADVOCACY Credits: 3.00 Practicum in Public Child Welfare. Prerequisites: CHAD 501, CHAD 502, CHAD 503 and matriculation in MA in Child Advocacy. The course will provide students with a supervised field placement at a child advocacy agency. The seminar will provide classroom instruction on issues related to the students' experiences. Site supervisors will provide on-the-job guidance and supervision. May be repeated once for a maximum of 6.0 credits.
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