Introduction to Organizations and Community Practice

Catalog description

This foundation course addresses community practice as it relates to human service agencies with special attention to non-profit and grassroots organizations. Building upon two theoretical approaches to human service organizations/agencies and their distinct at tributes, the course addresses key practice knowledge, skills, and values that promote, develop, and maintain organizations that effectively meet community and client needs. This course also emphasizes models of community intervention as integral to the social work professional's role in community and addresses challenges working with diverse populations in terms of community engagement, assessment, intervention and evaluation.