Current Issues in Northern/Remote Social Work

3 credits · Graduate

This course unravels, explores and analyzes the linkages between community issues, personal presenting problems, and global, national and regional historical, economic and social developments. It focuses on public issues and personal problems as they affect different demographic groups and Indigenous populations that live in the central and interior of British Columbia. This course examines the formulation of changes in social work practice and policy that give a greater voice to the consumers of welfare and the social and personal services of the welfare state.