Assignment task: You and a few of your fellow learners have been assigned to construct a presentation on one of the following groups:
- Working with African-Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos.
- Working with Asian Americans and immigrants.
- Working with LGBTQIA2S+ people.
- Working with ableism or disability and lookism.
- Working with older people, spirituality, and religion.
Each person working on the presentation is researching and contributing specific slides that analyze issues of power, privilege, and oppression as they pertain to the chosen group, as well as strategies and approaches for practice when working with these issues. This assignment requires you to submit the presentation slides you contributed to the presentation for an individual grade.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAs and specialized practice behaviors:
EPAS Competency 1: Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior.
C1.SP.B: Articulate and provide leadership in the application of the core values and ethical standards of the social work profession through an ethical problem solving model to aid in critical thinking and ethical decision making related to individuals, families, organizations, and communities to guide and inform ethical advanced generalist social work practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
Use person first language to discuss challenges that may arise from clients' cultures and from differences among people and cultural groups.
C1.SP.C: Integrate the ethical and effective use of technology at all levels of advanced generalist social work practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criterion:
Create slides that address chosen theme (or themes) related to culturally relevant practice.
EPAS Competency 2: Advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.
C2.SP.A: Apply leadership skills, decision making, and ethical use of technology, when engaging in interprofessional collaborative practice to advocate for the advancement of human rights with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to ensure that social resources, rights, and responsibilities are distributed equitably in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
Discuss techniques and best practices applicable to the selected group.
EPAS Competency 3: Engage anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI) in practice.
C3.SP.A: Demonstrate how diversity and intersectionality shape human experiences and apply anti-racist and anti-oppressive intervention techniques and technologies with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalized practice.
Related Assignment Criteria:
Discuss theory applicable to the selected group.
Discuss how working with this group from an ADEI lens may be helpful.
Instructions
This assignment is your contribution to the collaborative presentation, which you will be recording with some of your fellow learners. Submit the slides that you will contribute to the presentation and discuss your experience creating them.
Each learner creates 2-4 slides that discusses the selected group around one or more of the following themes:
- History and heritage.
- Current events.
- Geography, migrations, and diasporas.
- Privilege, oppression, and discrimination.
- Assimilation and acculturation.
- Education and employment.
- Healthcare.
- Family structure.
- Gender roles and relationships.
- Religion and spirituality.
- Other relevant themes approved by your instructor.
Complete the following in your submission:
Create slides that address chosen themes related to culturally relevant practice.
Discuss theory applicable to the selected group.
Discuss challenges that may arise from clients' cultures and from differences among people and cultural groups.
Discuss techniques and best practices applicable to the selected group.
Discuss how working with this group from an ADEI lens would be helpful.
Additional Requirements
Your slides are expected to meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession. Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Express ideas clearly, employing correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
APA formatting: Use current APA style and format for references and in-text citations. See the Evidence and APA section of the Writing Center for guidance. Include all cited sources in a References slide.
Resources: A minimum of three scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past 5 years.
Number of slides: 2-4 slides per group member.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:
Competency 1: Guided by best advanced generalist practice skills, apply professional behavior and leadership skills in oral, written, and electronic communication with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice. (C1.SP.B)
Use person first language to discuss challenges that may arise from clients' cultures and from differences among people and cultural groups. (C1.SP.B)
Competency 2: Integrate the ethical and effective use of technology at all levels of practice in the specialization of advanced generalist social work with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. (C1.SP.C)
Create slides that address chosen theme (or themes) related to culturally relevant practice. (C1.SP.C)
Competency 3: Demonstrate how diversity and intersectionality shape human experiences and apply anti-racist and anti-oppressive intervention techniques and technologies with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalized practice. (C3.SP.A)
Discuss theory applicable to the selected group. (C3.SP.A)
Discuss techniques and best practices applicable to the selected group. (C2.SP.A)
Discuss how working with this group from an ADEI lens may be helpful. (C3.SP.A)
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.
Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession