Child Advocacy Studies (Minor)

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.