Community Health Advocate School (CHAS)
CHAS will prepare students with an understanding and a career pathway in contextually competent social work, behavioral health, and/or other community health professions in order to excel through higher education and become transformative leaders of our local and global communities.
Through the study of community health, CHAS students will learn about, explore, and engage issues of culture, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexuality, gender differences, religion, prejudice, and institutionalized racism. These issues and concerns often obscure efforts if they are not appropriately recognized and dealt with in practice, in social policy development, and implementation, so it will be necessary for students to have this critical foundation.