Supporting Individual and Community Change

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of the mechanisms involved in promoting health and reducing health risk at the individual and community levels. Students will be exposed to topics related to stress management, mindfulness, bystander intervention, health promotion, and reduction of health risks. The processes and practices that underscore strategic community and system-level change, such as capacity-building, asset mapping, and policy change, will also be addressed. The course will consider interpersonal advocacy, service innovation and utilization, system change and social action as forms of community-level change. Prerequisite(s): permission of instructor.