Assignment task: Include an introduction and conclusion in your paper.
Your answers to the questions should be supported by referencing five sources: Marsiglia, Kulis, and Lechuga-Pena and Coker, Cannon, Dixon-Saxon, and Roller textbooks, scholarly journal articles, and/or government websites.
1. Define the issue Child welfare
2. Provide information on the prevalence of it on a local and national level.
3. Use statistical and other data to support your statement
4. Discuss who is affected and explain how they are affected.
5. Discuss the historical underpinnings that are the root of the issue.
6. Identify one of your political representatives and discuss the efforts made to address these disparities/disproportionalities and the unintended results when they are not addressed. What happens when it is not addressed?
7. Discuss the role of the social worker in addressing the issue on a macro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice. How might social workers intervene?