BA Child Advocacy and Policy
There is an increasing demand for trained professionals who understand the complex challenges faced by today’s children and their families, many of whom lack adequate access to education, healthcare, and other basic services. Child advocacy professionals are prepared to help. They draw on an interdisciplinary knowledge base to represent the rights of children and families. A child advocacy professional can hold many different job titles. Our graduates pursue careers in non-profit management, mental health, social work, and other helping professions. Graduates work with state agencies, legal organizations, school systems, non-profit agencies, and other community-based organizations.
A 39 credit, 13 course major for those students who wish to work with or on behalf of vulnerable children, youth, and families, particularly, but not limited to, those residing in the public child welfare system and the nation’s broader social support networks (non-profits and NGOs). In their senior year, students must take a practicum (internship) in child advocacy and a senior seminar course. No minimum GPA required.
There is an increasing demand for trained professionals who understand the complex challenges faced by today’s children and their families, many of whom lack adequate access to education, healthcare, and other basic services. Child advocacy professionals are prepared to help. They draw on an interdisciplinary knowledge base to represent the rights of children and families. A child advocacy professional can hold many different job titles. Our graduates pursue careers in non-profit management, mental health, social work, and other helping professions. Graduates work with state agencies, legal organizations, school systems, non-profit agencies, and other community-based organizations.
A 39 credit, 13 course major for those students who wish to work with or on behalf of vulnerable children, youth, and families, particularly, but not limited to, those residing in the public child welfare system and the nation’s broader social support networks (non-profits and NGOs). In their senior year, students must take a practicum (internship) in child advocacy and a senior seminar course. No minimum GPA required.
