Instructor Name: Amy Spring
CRN: 64609
The Inside-Out Capstone provides an opportunity for a small group of students from PSU and a group of residents from Coffee Creek Correctional Facility to exchange perceptions about crime, justice, and how societal structures and culture define crime, justice. We will explore civic and social responsibility and how civic engagement contributes to community strength and self. Crime is often explained as an example of a person’s bad “personal choices.” In this class we will not deny that persons...
Criminal Justice Child and Family Prison Policy
Instructor Name: Alissa Leavitt
CRN: 43643, 63494
Course Description: Students will work alongside the Family Preservation Project to examine pregnancy, birth, and postpartum support while incarcerated. Students will discuss perspectives, resources and policies that impact the physical and emotional experience of parenthood while in custody. Additionally, support services available to families, and children of incarcerated parents will be explored.
Our community partner will be the Family Preservation Project as we work to address prenatal...
Spring 2023Spring 2024Winter 2024
Community Health Advocacy Child and Family family education and social justice social justice public health incarceration Birth Pregnancy Postpartum lactation breastfeeding
Instructor Name: Alissa Leavitt
CRN: 64816, 63951, 44038
Pathways to Health Equity (Formerly called Health Professionals as Agents of Change)
Influences such as income, living conditions, education, infrastructure, healthcare, social capital, public policy, stress, gender, and race are widely recognized to effect health outcomes. However, the connection between research and practice is sometimes not as well developed or fully articulated.
Students will have the opportunity to work with practitioners to engage the community, including...
Winter 2023
Community Health Population-based health healthcare health equity behavioral health trauma-informed care environmental health community engagement Disabilities Education security; hunger; sustainability; food justice; food equity LGBTQ social work Poverty Awareness Anti-Racism Child and Family Age-friendly Communities College campus Research Refugees physical activity social determinants of health public health social change counseling school-based health maternal & child health oral health community organizing social connections community outreach social isolation faith-based health care
Instructor Name: Brianna Bragg, Nariyo Kono
CRN: 64542
Students are invited to respond to the critical need of developing a culturally responsive fundraising strategy for the Barbie’s Village tiny home project with a local nonprofit, The Future Generations Collaborative. Students will learn more about the county's ninth largest urban Native population, and the impact colonization has had on the community, specifically access to housing. Students will have opportunities to support the FGC throughout the quarter, and engage in reflective practices...
Fall 2023Spring 2024
Activism Being Healing-and-Trauma-Informed Community Health Child and Family Culturally Congruent Programming community engagement indigenous Hybrid or Fully online social work