For questions or advising needs, contact:
Ira Rosnel, Associate Degree Coordinator
afir@uaa.alaska.edu

Program Outcomes:

Graduates of this program will be able to:

1. Analyze and navigate community based human services agencies, service delivery systems and secure a variety of community resources,
2. Utilize a strengths-based approach to working with people and their problems in living,
3. Effectively use intervention and core paraprofessional counseling skills,
4. Apply their acquired human services skills in a service agency to include assessment, interviewing, treatment planning, service delivery, and paraprofessional counseling,
5. Demonstrate consolidation of knowledge through three areas of learning including:

• Understanding of an agency, its target population and services delivered, and interaction with their community partners,
• Development of professional self and identity with appropriate use of supervision,
• Application of client/community intervention skills,

6. Qualify for employment in the human services workforce,
7. Build on their human services degrees as a foundation for further education.