Behavioral Health Services in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice

Catalog description

Students will learn to identify adverse childhood experiences and assess the impact of these experiences on children and adolescents' emotional and behavioral functioning. Students will acquire the ability to identify risks for recurring adverse experiences in the child welfare and the juvenile justice systems. Evidenced-based practices and pathways to recovery will be learned. Students will learn how to identify opportunities for collaboration between systems, understand the barriers to collaboration, develop skills to overcome barriers and maintain collaborative relationships. The course will discuss current evidenced based and promising behavioral health practice approaches currently being use in child welfare and juvenile justice settings. Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Social Work or Social Work-Advanced Standing. Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students. Enrollment limited to students in a Master of Social Work degree.