SW 548 Advocacy & Social Action in the Military
This course will focus on the common themes and issues that active military, veterans, and their families experience in (a) addressing mental health issues linked to military service and (b) understanding the initial and ongoing experiences in transitioning from military to civilian life and addressing the mental health, vocational, and housing issues related to this transition. Relevant theories and strategies of social and political action that support an understanding of and promotion for social justice within organizations or agencies and the larger community offer the "scaffolding" for this course. Students gain understandings of policy practice theory and related skills in regard to social, economic, political, and organizational systems. This knowledge is applied to considerations of change, identifying strategies of influence and advocacy for policy changes to meet the needs of clients (micro perspective) and service delivery systems (macro perspective). Students develop skills to create change at the agency, community, and/or societal level that is founded on the principles and ideas of social, distributive, political, and economic justice.
Prerequisite
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