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Community-Centered Integrative Practice (CCIP)

The Community-Centered Integrative Practice (CCIP) specialization prepares social workers to lead and collaborate in transformative, community-rooted efforts that advance collective well-being, healing, and justice. CCIP intentionally seeks to bridge micro and macro practice. Students will be able to integrate micro, mezzo, and macro practice toward a vision of structural change in society.

Grounded in a liberatory, anti-oppressive, and healing-centered frameworks, CCIP centers the communities as sites and sources of knowledge, resilience, resistance, and transformation. Students and faculty engage and apply the histories, theories, and methods of social movements to address complex social challenges across systems. Through a critical, embodied, and relational pedagogy, students develop knowledge, skills, and values to:

  • Practice with cultural humility, reflexivity, and accountability, drawing on holistic approaches and theoretical frameworks for healing and community well-being.
  • Facilitate intergroup dialogue and community-based processes that foster belonging and connection, transformative justice, and collective action.
  • Collaborate and lead community and policy organizing, empowerment, and systems-change efforts.
  • Design, implement, and evaluate programs and policies responsive to community priorities and rooted in justice.

CCIP graduates are equipped to work as integrative, collaborative, and visionary change agents committed to co-creating more just, equitable, and thriving communities and societies.

Faculty Contacts

Scott Winn
Sonia Duckworth