HUMS 212 - Family and Child Welfare

1. Acquire knowledge of the family as a social institution from the standpoint of the person-in-environment orientation.
2. Analyze family functions with reference to the impact of social and economic forces and changing lifestyles on the family and its members and their abilities to perform life tasks and to secure and maintain well being.
3. Demonstrate an awareness of and respect for variations in families and communities, reflecting the human service professional’s value stance as related to ethnic, racial, sexual, structural, and lifestyle differences.
4. Identify and obtain a general understanding of how to analyze family well being and improve family functioning from various perspectives utilized by human service workers.
5. Discuss causes of family violence (e.g. spousal abuse, child abuse, elder abuse) and school violence in the context of today’s society and obtain an overview of intervention strategies and public policy issues.
6. Assess the working knowledge of the health and human service system as related to families and children.
7. Evaluate the importance of research and socioeconomic data to increase knowledge and understanding of children and families for the purpose of promoting the well-being of children, families, women and society.
8. Assess the impact of public policies on families and children through examining and comparing local, state, national and international policies with reference to such issues as public welfare, health care and child welfare.
9. Demonstrate sensitivity to the differential impact of public policies as related to ethnicity/race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.

• History of child welfare
• Violence, addiction and homelessness and their impact on children
• The changing family
• Childhood poverty
• Daycare and school-based services
• Child abuse and neglect
• Counseling for families and children
• Children in foster care
• Family centered services for children
• Adoption of children
• Court services on behalf of children
• Children in residential settings
• Teen parents and their children

 
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