The Social Services Certificate offered through the Behavioral Health program (BHP) provides diverse opportunities for students to serve the  community in a capacity that promotes social justice, wellness, and integrity by serving the community. Students who participate in the certificate study basic interviewing and counseling skills, ethics, pharmacology, client records and documentation, therapeutic recreation, and general psychology, and apply skills in behavioral health settings.

Students compleing this certificate of completion should be able to:

1. Describe the nature of human systems: individual, group, organization, community, and society, and their major interactions.
2. Identify and select interventions that promote growth and goal attainment.
3. Plan, implement, and evaluate motivational interventions that are congruent with the values of social service profession. 
4. Use process skills to plan and implement services.

Students will complete 38 credit hours with all courses with a grade of “C” or better.