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Child Advocacy Studies (Minor)

Program Type: Minor

Program Level: Undergraduate

Department: Minors

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The Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) minor is an interdisciplinary minor that provides comprehensive training to students who plan to work in a variety of areas serving children. The goal is to provide more comprehensive undergraduate training in the following:

Understand factors that lead to child maltreatment
Understand the responses to maltreatment, to work more effectively within various systems and institutions that respond to these incidents.
Recognize child abuse and make high quality child abuse reports
Receive training in best practices with victims

For more information, visit the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.