HUS 2540 - Building Stronger Families and Communities

3 credits
Prerequisites: Demonstration of readiness for college-level communication.
This course provides an understanding of the essential role that human service professionals play in facilitating healthy families and communities, including the effects of poverty, inequality, unemployment, child abuse, substance abuse, and domestic violence. The course provides strategies for empowering families to apply effective parenting skills; develop healthy lifestyles; promote self-esteem and self-worth; assume responsibility; use problem-solving skills; resolve conflicts; identify alternatives; and make healthy choices.