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Category: social work
Understanding Cultural Competency in Social Work
Social workers should understand what cultural competency is in social work. This assignment will help you learn this concept.
Citing three to five scholarly sources, address the following in an essay (500-750 words):
Identify strengths and challenges that develop from diverse human experiences.
Explain what is meant by cultural competency.
Explain how diversity and social justice relate to core values of social work.
After reading the NSAW Code of Ethics, self-reflect about the population associated with your selected social problem: How will you serve this population with dignity and integrity, respecting their basic human value? How will you avoid biases?
Developing a Social Service Program to Address Gaps in Mental Health Support for Vulnerable Populations
Based on your work in the Macro Analysis Paper and the Macro Analysis Presentation assignments you completed in previous weeks, you will now develop a program that eliminates a gap you identified in your research surrounding the selected problem. You need to do additional research to support the social service program you develop.
Preparation
Prior to developing a program, you need to do the following:
Identify an existing gap in the strategies or skills used to address the problem you identified for your Macro Analysis Paper assignment. The gap could also pertain to the sustainability of the strategies or the improvement in the quality of social service delivery addressed in your Macro Analysis Presentation assignment. You need to identify a gap in the existing strategies that you have read about and presented on.
Conduct additional research for peer-reviewed resources to determine an appropriate program. Your program needs to be based on peer-reviewed research, but can also be guided by your experience in the field.
Interview one social work leader who is an expert in your particular problem area to learn about strategies and skills that may address the identified problem.
The Schism in Social Work: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis
Describe the schism that developed between Jane Addams and Mary Richmond with respect to an understanding of the social work profession through policy advocacy and action.
Describe similar schisms that exist in contemporary social work.
Explain how the contemporary schisms prevent social workers from fulfilling their ethical obligation(s).
Bridging Differences in the Workplace
You are the leader of a community social service agency made up of 40 employees. The majority of the team includes women from the majority culture. Recently, there has been some conflict within your team with some team members feeling excluded which is concerning because social workers value principles of relationship-building and inter-professional collaboration to facilitate engagement with clients, constituencies, and other professionals as appropriate. You start to question the conflicts in your office and recognize that the conflict is occurring between the older employees and those who are younger. Your employees report that there has been some racially negative language that was overheard. As the leader of the agency, you must address these concerns. You have decided to provide training to your employees as a way to translate research findings into effective practice. For this assignment, your employee training will cover bridging differences in the workplace. Your presentation should contain information on how to acknowledge differences in a respectful manner and how to increase engagement. Address your expectations for behavior from the colleagues and strategies for creating a more inclusive, successful organizational culture connected to understanding strategies to engage diverse clients and constituencies to advance practice effectiveness. Make sure and include content related to social workers understanding of how their personal experiences and affective reactions may impact their ability to effectively engage with diverse clients and constituencies.
The foundation for your presentation is to prepare a PowerPoint file.
Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists and should cite material appropriately.
Support your presentation with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.
Enhancing Knowledge on the Application of Social Work in the Criminal Justice System
Prepare a workshop for those employed in the criminal justice system to enhance their knowledge on how social work is applied to these systems including why Social workers understand how diversity and difference characterize and shape the human experience and are critical to the formation of identity. You may prepare a general presentation for all criminal justice professionals or select a specific population, such as probation officers.
Describe the criminal justice system, its purpose, and the population it serves.
Discuss competencies in evidenced-based practice and model programs for offenders, victims of crime, and their families showing an understanding that evidence that informs practice derives from multi-disciplinary sources and multiple ways of knowing.
Explain the development of the criminal personality and its relationship to the justice system. Illustrate how biological and environmental risks and protective factors lead to antisocial trajectories (micro, mezzo, and macro) and to the development of intervention strategies to improve outcomes.
Determine factors that contribute to the over-representation of people of color, the perception of racial bias, and social class distinction within the criminal justice system integrating content related to understanding strategies designed to eliminate oppressive structural barriers to ensure that social goods, rights, and responsibilities are distributed equitably and that civil, political, environmental, economic, social, and cultural human rights are protected.
Describe the principles of evidence-based practice and restorative justice in treatment, program development, and evaluation including how social workers understand their role in policy development and implementation within their practice settings at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels and they actively engage in policy practice to effect change within those settings.
Explain how your audience can apply evidence-based strategies while working in an interdisciplinary team with forensic social workers.
Explain how social workers utilize risk assessment and instruments with criminal offenders and trauma assessment with victims of crime, including the appropriate use and limitations of psychometric and risk assessment tools recognizing that assessment is an ongoing component of the dynamic and interactive process of social work practice with, and on behalf of, diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Examine how forensic social workers testify in court and collaborate with other professionals.
Support your assignment with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Addressing Food Insecurity in the Urban Community: A Proposal for a Community Food Resource Program
For your first assignment, you will identify a need in your community, your agency, or in your academic setting. Once you have identified a need, determine a possible solution and create a vision and mission statement for the proposed program or project. A vision statement should point to the future state you desire after the problem is addressed. The mission statement should point to how the future state will be accomplished.
In a 3 page paper, identify your position (location where you provide social work services or knowledge). Then, identify a problem or issue that you believe needs to be addressed and resolved in order for your clients or learners to function better in their roles. Make the case for this problem or issue by gathering and sharing data on prevalence, longevity, and scope. Identify existing and potential data sources to back your arguments.
To complete the assignment successfully, answer the following questions:
● What is the problem?
● Who is it a problem for?
● How long has it been a problem?
● How long do you expect the problem to continue without intervention?
● Who are the stakeholders in the problem and in the solution?
To be successful, you need to be ready to convince a funding source to give you money to address the identified problem. Thus, you need to make a clear, concise, convincing argument. Creating a vision and mission statement helps the funder understand your intent.
Incorporating Ethical Practices in Supporting Families Struggling with Substance Use Issues
Going into your future practice, what is one thing that you will make sure to incorporate into your work to ensure ethical services with families struggling with substance use issues?
Understanding Separation Anxiety Disorder: Definition and Example
Define Separation Anxiety Disorder and give an example.
Understanding the Symptoms of Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
Discuss the symptoms of disruptive Mood Dysregulation (DMDD).