Teaching
The Gamble-Skogmo Chair has traditionally taught an advanced course in social policy (SW8101) each year. The class typically is offered during the spring semester.
Social Policy and Delivery Systems for Child Welfare and Family Services (SW8101)
The course focuses on federal, state, and local policies related to contemporary child welfare systems and systems of social services to families. It includes current debates about policies, financing, structure and organization of service delivery, and the process of influencing policy changes in children and family services. Through readings, class exercises and research, students develop an appreciation of policy as fundamental to practice and to child and family well-being. The emphasis is on contemporary policies and issues with attention paid to the larger social and political context within which these policies have emerged, for example how values and ideologies related to worthiness and entitlement shape both the content and implementation of policy.
