Courses

Provides students with basic domestic violence education and training in preparation for working with domestic violence survivors in the community, as well as support throughout their first semester of internship placement. The course provides training in evidence-based interventions, including the implementation of an evidence-based safety decision aid, a tool to enhance risk assessment, safety planning, and referral to additional community resources. The course also emphasizes the unique mission of AmeriCorps members through the Corporation for National & Community Service.

This course focuses upon intimate partner violence (IPV) among families involved with the child welfare system, providing an understanding of the intersection between IPV and child maltreatment, the health and mental health effects of IPV on women and children, and concrete tools to intervene in IPV. Additionally, the course explores how experiences of child welfare-involved families with a history of IPV might vary depending on race, culture, age, and other areas of difference and diversity.

This course introduces the concept of domestic violence fatality review and applies it to the analysis of de identified cases. Students will closely examine an array of deaths and the social, cultural, economic, and historical contexts within which they take place. They will build case timelines, identify case antecedents, 2 assess the degree of coordination, communication, and collaboration among community agencies, organizations, and stakeholders, and develop possible preventive interventions. Case types addressed will include: male and female perpetrated intimate partner homicides, familicide, and suicide.

This course will examine the use of intimate partner violence risk assessment in social work practice with survivors of IPV.     

This course will examine the use of intimate partner violence (IPV) risk assessment in social work practice with survivors of IPV. We will examine theories and research that explain, define, and describe IPV risk assessment; the intended uses and predictive value of the various available IPV risk assessment instruments; and the use of IPV risk assessment instruments in social work practice interventions, including within risk informed collaborative interventions (e.g., the Lethality Assessment Program). The course will present an evidence based practice framework for the use of risk assessment in social work practice, and students will be encouraged to think critically about the use of risk assessment across social work practice settings.