Hidden Student Populations, Graduate Certificate
Get certified in hidden student populations
This graduate certificate focuses on populations whose members are not easily visually
identified, do not generally have a formal voice in the system and who may be motivated
to remain anonymous. Members of hidden populations often have experiences with socially
stigmatizing trauma. Those currently considered to be hidden populations include those
who have foster care and/or justice-involved experiences, who are survivors of sexual
violence, are or have been sex workers, who are recovering from substance addiction,
who face housing insecurity who are seeking or sought abortion care in a state where
deemed illegal and/or have undergone or in the process of gender reassignment.