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SOWK 5501 - Law, Race and Poverty in the Welfare of Children


Credits: 3

This course is required for BSW senior social work majors and MSW 1st year students who are Title IV-E Child Welfare recipients. The course focuses on differential application of law on child welfare issues and the interventions of human service workers. Emphasis is on child abuse and neglect, separation and loss, foster care, kinship care, the courts and legal issues related to decision-making.

Prerequisite(s): Senior status or instructor permission.