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Community Resolution Services (CRS) offers
assistance to both NSU and the greater community
through a variety of services. They include mediation,
facilitation, consensus building, and training
workshops for families struggling with conflict through
the VOICES Family Outreach Project; community
mediation for neighborhood disputes; and facilitation,
civility workshops, and training for communities,
groups, and organizations. The program also works with
law enforcement agencies and other service providers
to help make local communities safer.
The goal of the Consortium for Narrative Research
and Practice is to promote collaborations among the
programs in Family Therapy, Multidisciplinary Studies,
and Conflict Analysis and Resolution, as well as among
SHSS and other academic units. It was established
for the benefit of students, faculty members, alumni,
groups, organizations, and helping professions in the
local, national, and international communities.
DCAR’s African Working Group is a nonexclusive
association of scholars, professionals, and activists
dedicated to constructive change and peace-building in
the African world. Selected examples of the activities
include producing educational events; sponsoring
research; and facilitating knowledge sharing, skills
training, and mentorship of aspiring and practicing
peace builders.
The Culture-Conflict Group is a student organization
in DCAR run by students and facilitated by faculty
members to present and discuss papers at the
Residential Institute on a variety of topics (of their
choosing) related to culture and conflict. Meetings
are held once or twice a term to discuss issues and
organize conferences.
The Latin American and Caribbean Forum in DCAR
was initiated by John Linstroth as a graduate student-
run organization where students, faculty members, and
invited guests will present and discuss a variety of topics
regarding Latin American and Caribbean areas and the
South Florida communities.
SUPERB (Students United with Parents and Educators
toResolve Bullying) offers an all-age preventive program
designed to meet the specific needs of an individual
school or a district to enable the learning center to
resolve bullying in their educational environment. By
targeting bystanders, SUPERB helps to alter the culture
and redefines teasing and tormenting as unacceptable
behavior in school. SUPERB teaches students to
work together to resolve incidents of bullying and
interpersonal violence in schools by educating students,
teachers, and parents that teasing and tormenting peers
cannot be tolerated as an acceptable part of the school
community
(
http://nochildfearsschool.com
)
.
SHSS publishes the semiannual peer-reviewed
Journal
of Peace and Conflict Studies
.
The Qualitative Report
is
an online journal dedicated to qualitative research
since 1990. The
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
is housed in the Department of Family Therapy.
The school’s online newsletter is titled
SHSS Dialogs
(
http://shss.nova.edu/dialogs
)
.
The Institute for the Study of
Human Service, Health, and Justice
The Institute for the Study of Human Service, Health,
and Justice is the newest addition to the Division
of Applied Interdisciplinary Studies. The institute is
composed of a portfolio of academic programs, major
grant-funded research, and clinical projects focused on
some of today’s most urgent social challenges including
substance use and health disparities, as well as the
accessibility of services for returning veterans and the
university’s postdoctoral residency program. The institute
is committed to values-based leadership and to the
collaborative spirit of academic work at NSU.
The institute’s academic offerings include programs at
the bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. level. The M.S. in
Criminal Justice prepares students through a strong core
curriculum in criminal justice, and allows for specialty
training through various tracks focused on key issues
within the field, including legal perspectives, behavioral
science, substance abuse, and strategic community
planning, among others. This multidisciplinary structure
facilitates choice for students and fosters the development
of specialized expertise.
The M.H.S. in Child Protection provides competency-
based child protective services instruction aimed at
closing the gap between ground level, on-the-job training
and scientifically grounded best practices.