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May 17, 2024
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SWK 814 - Policy Impact Within Military Systems 3 hours
This course will provide students with a framework for advanced policy analysis and strategies for policy change in order to support practice with troops, veterans, and their families. The course will focus on military and veteran programs and systems. The course emphasizes military culture and lifestyle and introduces students to historical policies and programs impacting veterans’ health care and benefits. This course takes into account the effects of repeated, extended separation, as well as active duty and veterans’ physical, psychological, and cognitive injury, and examines how policies and programs can be developed to ensure the provisions of seamless, quality services to a deserving population. Students will examine the policies, programs, and services that contribute to military and veterans’ family health and wellbeing and will be introduced to past and present issues and themes that impact service members, veterans, and their families. National policies are reviewed for efficacy with vulnerable military populations (i.e. disabled veterans, members of the LGBT community, women, and veterans experiencing homelessness and substance abuse issues). Students are encouraged to consider how a social work approach may be particularly beneficial in responding to the complex and evolving needs of today’s military and veterans’ families. This is an 15-week online course.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: SWK 514
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