Assignment task:
Determine ways to establish rapport, professional networks, and collaborative partnerships within a community.
Visual Presentation with Audio
This assignment will help you become familiar with advocating for a social issue that impacts children and families. Advocacy involves interventions and can sometimes involve challenges that need solutions. This assignment will also help you explore the different components of advocacy when working with children and families. For this assignment, you will create a presentation that addresses a case study that highlights a social issue of your choice that impacts children and families. You will look at ways to advocate for children and families as well as identifying potential challenges you might encounter.
Slide 1: Title Slide
Slide 2: Develop Case Study
Make sure to be descriptive in terms of the ages of any children involved, which family members are part of the case study and their ages and role with the child/children. Include any other information that is pertinent, and include the socioeconomic status of the individuals in your case study and other cultural details.
Slide 3-4: Social Issue
Identify an issue that is impacting the child(ren) and the family members.
Provide some general background on the issue you chose. The background should be specific to the family, along with general information about how many people are impacted by the issue in society, the history of this issue in the country, etc.
Slide 5-6: Advocacy Benefits
Analyze two ways in which advocacy would be beneficial to the case that you discussed.
Be sure to discuss why advocacy is beneficial in terms of the self-determination of the individuals in your case study.
Slides 7-9: Advocacy Interventions
Explore three advocacy interventions that would be particularly useful to the individuals in your case study.
Slides 10-11: Challenges and Solutions
Examine any challenges that human service professionals may encounter when advocating for the individuals in your case study and analyze how human service professionals could overcome these challenges.
Slide 12: References
Include a minimum of two scholarly, academic sources listed in APA format.