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Policy advocac.
As a social worker, often you need to use your policy advocacy skills to ensure that your clients are receiving the services that they need. Although you may tend to think of policy advocacy skills as separate from your clinical social work skills, they are very similar. Think of the skills that you would use in working with a client such as Jake Levy. How could you apply these skills to policy advocacy? How will you use these skills to identify the policy and social problems that are impacting these families? In this week’s Discussion, you will continue to follow the Levy, Bradley, Petrakis, and Cortez families to start the process of policy advocacy.
In this Discussion, select one of the four integrated videos and identify the problems experienced by the client(s).
By Day 3 (2 to 3 pages)
Post your responses to the following:
- Who is defining the problem?
- What values are reflected in this definition of the problem?
- What is being omitted in this definition?
- What other problems do you see that are not being acknowledged?
Required Readings
SOCW 6361 Webliography
These websites will be required throughout the semester. Become familiar with these websites, especially when doing research for your assignments.
Jansson, B. S. (2018). Becoming an effective policy advocate: From policy practice to social justice. (8th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning Series.
Chapter 7, “Analyzing Problems in the First Step of Policy Analysis” (pp. 204-243)
Midgley, J., & Livermore, M. M. (Eds.). (2008). The handbook of social policy (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 14, “Critical Social Policy” (pp. 215–235) (PDF)
Petrakis Family Episode 6
Petrakis Family Episode 6 Program Transcript
FEMALE SPEAKER: So APS has closed the Petrakis case, and they’re not recommending any action at this time.
CINDY: What? But Alec stole from his grandmother. Drugs, money.
FEMALE SPEAKER: And you put that in your report, and APS closed the case.
CINDY: But he left town. Aren’t they going to go after him?
FEMALE SPEAKER: The APS isn’t the police.
CINDY: I just– I feel like I let down Helen. It was my fault for going along with her idea to have her son move in to take care of his grandmother.
FEMALE SPEAKER: I understand how you feel, Cindy. Tell me, what did you learn from this experience?
CINDY: I’ve learned a lot, that’s for sure. I mean, between this case and school.
FEMALE SPEAKER: What do you mean?
CINDY: I’ve been researching a paper on elder abuse. I had no idea there were so much abuse among elders, like this case.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Did you read about the Elder Justice law?
CINDY: Yeah, it’s great. It only just passed, but it’s going make a difference. I mean, APS gets more funding, and they’re going to start up forensics centers to help improve expertise on elder abuse.
FEMALE SPEAKER: It’s been a long time coming. I really hope this makes a difference.
CINDY: Me, too. You know, ever since I got this case and the stuff I’ve been reading, I’ve been thinking, I might want to work more with this population, maybe move my career in that direction.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Really?
CINDY: Yeah. I would never have thought of it before. But once you see the problem up close, elder abuse stops being just statistics. It gets a human face. I think my own grandparents, you know? They need to be protected.
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Petrakis Family Episode 6
FEMALE SPEAKER: Well, if you go that way, you’re going to be in demand. We Baby Boomers aren’t getting any younger. There’s going to be a need for good social workers.
Petrakis Family Episode 6 Additional Content Attribution
MUSIC: Music by Clean Cuts
Original Art and Photography Provided By: Brian Kline and Nico Danks
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