Instructor Name: Keith L. Kaufman, Ph.D.
CRN: 63524
Note: This is a two-term Capstone (winter and spring terms) and has either a three or four credits per term option.
This course focuses on the development of consultation skills applicable for use with a broad range of organizations and utilizes a Community Psychology perspective. Students will join one of several available consultation teams, each working collaboratively with a particular community partner on a project to address a critical organizational need. Community partners...
Spring 2023Spring 2024
Homelessness Mental Health Disabilities Community Health public health Consultation Program Development Needs Assessment Program Evaluation Sexual Violence Prevention Youth Development LGBTQ+ Adaptive Sports
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