SW 556 Social Work and Trauma Informed Community Practice

This course looks at the challenges of community development through the lens of trauma, historical and structural racism, exclusion, poverty, and community violence, among other factors. Students will learn how to assess the multiple contributions to individual and collectively experienced trauma and its sequelae. Based on this assessment, students will then develop recommendations for intervention with specific goals, taking into account barriers and facilitators of community building in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders.