The University of Texas at Arlington

This second year required course for family and children focuses on direct social work practice with children and their families. The rationale for the course is that in many settings, social workers often are the first, and sometimes the only, helping professionals available to provide services to troubled and troubling children. Social workers, therefore, need a core base of assessment and intervention skills to work effectively with a variety of problems that children, parent(s) and family members commonly encounter.

Students choose a local non-profit organization and write a federal grant proposal for that organization. SOCW 5551 & SOCW 6851: Graduate Field Practicum: Students complete an internship at the Community Services Center where they provide capacity-building services to local non-profit organizations.

Service-Learning Project: Directions Home Independent Evaluation

Students serve as liaisons to nine non-profit and governmental organizations that are working collaboratively to make homelessness rare, short-term and non-recurring. Students help to facilitate and maintain a consumer advisory board, complete client interviews, extract and analyze data from the Homelessness Management Information System in Tarrant County.