Leadership in the Human Services
Develop your practice, grow your career.
Our leadership in the human services certificates, focus on areas most requested by social workers, agencies and human service providers. Each specialization is a deep-dive into an area of social work practice.
Certificates provide graduate education and formal credentials.If you plan on applying to our an MSW, you'll need this certificate and one in Advanced Social Work Practice.
Admission Requirements
- A Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) from an accredited/recognized institution.
- A minimum of 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 point system, over the past two years of full-time study (a minimum of 60 units) of the undergraduate degree.
- The equivalent of two years of full-time paid work or a minimum of 3,000 hours of paid and/or volunteer work in the human services field by the application deadline.
What is relevant social work and human service experience? - English Language Proficiency
Offers of admission are valid for the term to which you apply.
Fall 2025: Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Leadership
Transform your leadership practices to move forward in a good way with Indigenous Peoples. Led by a team of Indigenous instructors, Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and recognized non-Indigenous social work instructors working in good relations, courses are grounded in an Indigenous lens and you'll be immersed in land-based teachings, circle process, and ceremony.
Fall 2026: The Practical and Transformational Leader
Learn current theories and practices in leadership within a variety of organizational contexts. Learn program planning, implementation and evaluation; policy analysis and development; organizational dynamics and change; supervision; community capacity building, social action and advocacy.