Community Leadership Certificate

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Community Leadership Certificate

The Community Leadership Certificate provides advanced education and training in social work community practice skills, including mobilizing neighborhood, community, and client groups to solve collective human problems, writing grants for financial support, and planning and conducting advocacy to affect social welfare policy decisions that affect local communities.

Community Leadership Certificate

The Community Leadership Certificate provides advanced education and training in social work community practice skills, including mobilizing neighborhood, community, and client groups to solve collective human problems, writing grants for financial support, and planning and conducting advocacy to affect social welfare policy decisions that affect local communities.
This certificate is for students who specialize in direct practice (clinical) social work but want to know how to impact their communities. Certificate students will be equipped to mobilize communities and groups to solve human problems, write grants for community purposes, and to impact the policy-making process. Students with this knowledge can be expected provide advanced community practice skills to groups and organizations seeking greater levels of awareness outcomes for communities and clients. Examples of positions available to graduates with this certificate can include Constituent Organizing Manager, Community Engagement Specialist, or Economic Development Stakeholder Coordinator.

Individuals who already hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Social Work with a GPA of 3.0 or higher can apply for this graduate certificate. If an applicant has a bachelor’s degree in a different field, they must have at least 2 years of related professional experience and a GPA of 3.0 or higher.

For students currently in the MSW program at the time of enrollment in the graduate certificate program, the admission requirement is to be in good standing, as defined by the MSW program, including a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Current BSW students are not eligible.

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