Rural Human Services
College of Rural Alaska
Interior-Aleutians Campus (907) 474-5439
Kuksokwim Campus (907) 474-5440
Certificate
Minimum Requirements for Certificate: 30 Credits
The Rural Human Services Certificate is a one year program designed to facilitate development of strong and healthy rural Alaska Native individuals, families, and communities. Developed for village-based human service providers preparing to be natural helpers/healers in their communities, the program provides entry level training for village-based public, private, and volunteer human service organizations. Drawing extensively on resource people from the Native community, curriculum content and delivery reflects a strong multicultural orientation that validates, incorporates, and builds on Native values and principles. Courses are offered through a series of four training sessions. Each of the four sessions last three weeks and consist of six credits. Students spend the time in intensive study at selected delivery sites. A four credit practicum and two electives round out the program.
Admission is open to all individuals employed by a regional Native health corporation or local entity providing delivery of village-based human services, or individuals recognized by their communities as natural helpers/healers. A high school diploma or GED and/or previous training or work experience in the delivery of village-based human services is recommended but not required.
Undergraduate Degree Requirements
- Complete the certificate requirements in the following recommended sequence: Credits
Training Session I
RHS 110 -- Cross-Cultural Bridging Skills (2 credits)
RHS 115 -- Issues of Personal Development in the Delivery of Rural Human Services (2 credits)
RHS 120 -- Family Systems I (2 credits)
Training Session II
RHS 130 -- Processes of Community Change (2 credits)
RHS 140 -- Alaska Native Values and Principles (2 credits)
RHS 150 -- Introduction to Rural Counseling (2 credits)
Training Session III
RHS 220 -- Family Systems II (2 credits)
RHS 250 -- Rural Counseling II (2 credits)
RHS 260 -- Addictions: Intervention and Treatment (2 credits)
Training Session IV
RHS 265 -- Interpersonal Violence (2 credits)
RHS 285 -- Case Management (2 credits)
RHS 287 -- Rural Human Services Practicum (4 credits)
Subtotal (26 credits) - Other requirements:
English*
or
RHS Elective** (with permission of instructors) (3 credits)
Minimum credits required (30 credits)
*English: Students must demonstrate proficiency in English through documented satisfactory completion of a college level English composition course, through completion of the ASSET test with recommended placement in a college level English class, or through satisfactory completion of 3 credits of appropriate Developmental English or Office Management and Technology Business English.
**RHS Electives:
RHS 270 -- Networking, Negotiating, and Conflict Resolution (2 credits)
RHS 288 -- Directed Study: Resource Assessment (1 credit)
RHS 289 -- Directed Study: Processes of Community Change II 1
RHS 290 -- Grief and Healing (2 credits)