SW 805 Policy Issues in Family and Children's Services (Spring: 3)
Prerequisite:
SW 701
Corequisite:
SW 934 or SW944 or permission
Required for Children, Youth and Families Field-of-Practice Concentration;
elective for others.
A critical examination of alternatives in evaluating, formulating, and implementing
policies and programs in the area of family and children's services through
the analysis of specific issues in this field of practice. Students select
the issues to be considered during the first class session. The scope of
these issues includes: foster care, group care, adoption, protective services
to battered and neglected children and the elderly, services to delinquents,
aging, family and child advocacy, divorce custody issues, health care, and
HIV/AIDS.
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Last Updated: 02-FEB-09