Human Services

Provides an overview of the Human Services field, including history of and perspectives on intervention and prevention. Emphasizes self-awareness and examines the attitudes, values, knowledge, and skills necessary for a career in Human Services. Includes a focus on local community resources and practice settings as well state and federal programs.

Provides an introduction to counseling skills and theory. Learners will practice interviewing and micro-skills through role-plays and be exposed to theories of counseling, assessment, and intervention, as well as ethical guidelines for work in the field of human services and the helping professions.

Provides field experience through an internship at a local human services agency.  Includes weekly seminar to provide student with the opportunity to discuss fieldwork experiences.

Includes theoretical and experiential training in facilitating groups. Designed to encourage understanding and skill development in selecting group members, establishing group norms and goals, and attending to ethical codes of conduct. Skill development includes setting group climate, developing group activities, promoting group and individual growth, and making appropriate group interventions with attention to special populations. Learners will be members of an in-class group and will be co-facilitating a group.

Provides a systems-based orientation to the development of knowledge and skills needed to become a case manager in health and human services. Incorporates an ethical, culturally appropriate, strength-based, and client-centered approach. Skill development includes intake, assessment, service planning, care coordination, discharge planning, referral, advocacy, and documentation.

Promotes knowledge, skills, sensitivity, and self-care practices for engaging individuals and families affected by interpersonal violence. Examines historical, societal, and legal responses and resources. Content focuses on physical, emotional, and sexual victimization of vulnerable populations such as children, elders, and LGBTQ+. Addresses dating violence, human trafficking, and intimate partner violence. Examines current research on social, economic, cultural, family, and individual risk factors, perpetrator dynamics, effects of violence on victims and survivors, and effective intervention and prevention strategies. Learners have an opportunity to explore their own values and feelings in relation to a difficult subject matter.

Focuses on the continuum of substance use. Analyzes historical, societal, and cultural perceptions, and examines the impact of substance use and behavioral disorders on the individual, the family and the community. Reviews current trends, legal responses, and the effectiveness of various approaches utilized in the field.

Provides theoretical and experiential training in the prevention, intervention, treatment, and aftercare approaches applicable to a diverse substance use disorder population. Identifies ethical and legal issues encountered in the field. Covers aspects of the counseling process, specifically the 12 Core Functions utilized by the substance use disorder counselor.

Provides advanced, field experience through an internship at a local human services human services agency.  Includes weekly seminar to provide students with the opportunity to discuss fieldwork experiences.