12 courses with the subject BHHS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
BHHS 1006Community Health Worker Role, Advocacy, Outreach and Resources3
Credit(s) 3 credits lecture/0 credits lab This course provides an introduction to the fields of community and behavioral health, defining the roles and responsibilities of Community Health Workers and Behavioral Health Workers. Students will explore professional values, cultural considerations, and the history of the profession while developing essential generalist practice skills. Emphasis is placed on understanding community needs, promoting personal wellness and self-care, ensuring safety during home visits, and serving as effective liaisons who connect clients to appropriate resources across diverse human service settings.
Credit(s) 3 credits lecture/0 credits lab This course provides an overview of the rights and protections of persons with disabilities and prepares the student to work in the direct service setting. Emphasis is placed on teamwork, communication and conflict resolution, working with families as well as diversity, confidentiality and advocacy issues.
Credit(s) 3 credits lecture/0 credits lab This course compares and contrasts the community support models to former medical model. This course will guide the students in obtaining skills on how to support persons with various disabilities and explore augmentative and communication systems. This course will address specific support issues including common signs and symptoms of health concerns, standard precautions and blood borne pathogens, appropriate responses to emergency situations, basic medication concerns, and documentation techniques. In addition, students will learn about communication methods, relationship and sexuality issues, inclusion issues, and community resources for the individuals they will support.
BHHS 1031Health Communication, Teaching, and Capacity Building3
Credit(s) 3 credits lecture/0 credits lab This course introduces person-centered planning, health communication, and teaching strategies used by behavioral, mental, developmental, and community health workers (CHW). Students develop skills in effective and culturally responsive communication, motivational interviewing, and capacity-building while learning to create person-centered plans that translate individual strengths, preferences, and choices into actionable support strategies within legal and ethical frameworks.
Credit(s) 3 credits lecture/0 credits lab This course provides an overview of different challenging behaviors and provides methods and guidelines for correcting these behaviors. Additionally, this course explores how environmental factors like personal experiences and individual value systems affect decision making, behaviors, and responses to others’ actions. This course introduces various assessment tools that can be used to identify challenging behavior, develop intervention plans, and document client progress.
Credit(s) 3 credits lecture/0 credits lab This course focuses on the role of the Community Health Worker in health promotion and disease prevention/management including cultural navigation, social determinants of health, connections to resources, and supporting clients and families.
BHHS 1561Documentation, Legal, and Ethical Issues3
Credit(s) 3 credits lecture/0 credits lab This course examines the legal, ethical, and historical foundations of social welfare and community health work. Students explore documentation standards, confidentiality, mandatory reporting, and professional boundaries while analyzing how social policies, cultural factors, and historical developments shape services for at-risk populations. Emphasis is placed on accurate documentation, ethical practice, and understanding the evolution and function of the U.S. social welfare system.
Credit(s) 3 credits lecture/0 credits lab This course will orient the student to the field of social work. An understanding of people as individuals and members of groups and communities using the Person-In Environment (PIE) approach will be introduced. Generic roles emphasizing change and responsibility are explored and identified. Major topics include: history of social work, professional value assumptions, nature of social work relationship, and social work settings: casework, family and group work, advocacy, public and social welfare administration, and community development. The history of the profession, including influential social workers and the social conditions which lead to early social work movements, will be covered. Students will identify and practice the skills necessary for generalist social work practice.
Credit(s) 3 credits lecture/0 credits lab This course covers specific types of developmental, physical and mental disabilities including cerebral palsy, autism, mental retardation, epilepsy, Prader Willi, chromosomal disorders, deafness/hard of hearing, blindness, brain injury and mental health diagnosis. This course will guide the student in obtaining skills on how to support persons with these disabilities.
Credit(s) 4 credits lecture/0 credits lab This course will cover an in-depth analysis of assessment, plan design, implementation and evaluation of consumers. The course will cover assessing problem behavior, planning and implementing interventions, designing proactive manipulations and integrating a multi-intervention, multi-disciplinary team approach. The course will also explore the understanding of regulatory restrictions and guidelines on intervention and Rule 40, mental health issues sometimes associated with behavior, psychotropic medications and crisis intervention.
Credit(s) 0 credits lecture/0 credits lab/2 credits OJT This internship provides supervised field experience that prepares students for independent practice in Community Health Worker (CHW) and Behavioral Health Worker roles. Students apply classroom knowledge in real-world settings by assessing community and client needs, developing and evaluating support and intervention plans, recognizing environmental and population-specific factors, and demonstrating professional competencies related to safety, ethics, agency policies, and scope of practice while strengthening worker-client relationships.
Credit(s) 1 credit lecture/0 credits lab This course is designed as the culmination of the students’ educational experience. This capstone project synthesizes the knowledge and skills acquired across the program-from direct service professionalism and capacity building, to communication, supportive interventions, social service projects, and positive behavior facilitation. Students demonstrate readiness for employment as Behavioral Health Workers, Direct Support Professionals, Designated Coordinators, and entry-level Human Services Professionals.
