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Academics

Community-Centered Integrative Practice (CCIP)

The CCIP specialization prepares graduates to be leaders and partners in facilitating community-engaged praxis and transforming systems to promote health and well-being of communities across micro-, meso- and macro-levels of engagement.   

Our program centers on the community as a principal source and site of healing; through a critical engagement and integration of the histories, theories, and methods of movements and emerging strategies for addressing social problems such as white supremacy and environmental and economic injustices. 

CCIP equips students with the requisite knowledge, skills, and values to work as change agents in an integrative, collaborative, culturally responsive and comprehensive manner across local-gloabal contexts to promote just social work practice. 

This program focuses on developing foundational and comprehensive skills in:  

  • Cultural humility, reflexive intra-personal examination and communication for identifying unconscious biases, and addressing dominant narratives.
  • Somatic and holistic practices that are essential in working across cultures including building resilience, respect, awareness and discernment of context, emotional regulation, and self-accountability.

These essential skills are learned in community and are critical for any community-based social work practitioner who will fundamentally engage in, 

  • Assessment, Intervention, and Evaluation
  • Intergroup Dialogue Facilitation
  • Organizing & Empowerment Community-Centered Work 
  • Leadership and Program Management
  • Policy Development

Faculty Contacts

Dr. Gino Aisenberg