Human Services Seminar Helps Students Develop Case Management Skills
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 8, 2003
Emily Bobb, Public Affairs Intern
530-898-4143
Joe Wills
530-898-4143
Human Services Seminar Helps Students Develop Case Management Skills
The seventh Inter-Professional Education Saturday Seminar, for students in health and human services to learn case management skills, is being held Saturday, April 12, from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in Shurmer Gym on the California State University, Chico campus.
Twenty faculty members and 284 students from eight health and human services departments will attend this workshop to learn how to work as an interdisciplinary team and develop case management skills. The students will interact with 15 regional agency representatives to become familiar with their importance to the regional community-at-large.
This seminar also helps students to gain knowledge of what other students in health and human services majors do. The participating fields of study include child development, nutrition and food sciences, social work, health and community services, psychology, social science, special education, speech pathology and audiology, physical education and political science.
Students are intentionally placed into one of 35 teams and given a case study, which they use to create an appropriate case management plan. The case study is put together from a combination of real families that members of the Inter-Professional Group (IPG) have worked with before. It represents a low-income, ethnic family with problems that students might work with in their careers. This year’s case study involves an African-American family with diverse foster children and familial problems. Past years’ case studies have included Hmong and Mexican-American families.
Students work together to recognize the problems and strengths of the family and determine what resources are needed and available in the local community to resolve the family’s problems. The plans created by the student teams are presented to various family and agency representatives who critique them.
The seminar is sponsored by grants and funding from the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. IPG is made up of a group of faculty members who educate future health and human services workers to prepare graduates to work in a team and become skilled at problem solving before their first job.
For more information contact Judith Borden, coordinator and child development professor, at 898-4761.
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