Assignment task: Social Problem of interest is Food insecurity.
Issue Statement: Create issue statement that hooks your audience and concisely communicates the imperative to address your selected social problem. Include the following:
- define your social problem and the population impacted by it.
- explain your critical reasons for why the public and decision-makers, as well as social workers, need to advocate for change.
- describe what happens in communities if your goal to alleviate the problem is realized.
Policy Review: Summarize your selected policy, its relationships to the social problem, and the expected results. Then address the following:
- Is your selected policy dictated by local or state statute-or a combination thereof?
- How does the policy address your issue statement? Or what is missing?
- What are the different sections, or components, of the policy?
- How long has the current policy been in place?
- Who supports and who opposes the policy?
- What changes, or amendments, have been made to the policy?
- Explain how this policy affects clients you might see in a clinical setting and why, as a clinical social worker, it would be important to advocate for change.
Reference:
Jansson, B. S. (2018).?Becoming an effective policy advocate: From policy practice to social justice (8th ed.). Cengage Learning.
Chapter 4, "Understanding the Ecology of Policy in Governmental, Electoral, Community, and Agency Settings" (pp. 100-140)
Rome, S., Harris, S., & Hoechstetter, S. (2010). Social work and civic engagement: The political participation of professional social workers Links to an external site.. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 37(3), 107-129.
Council on Social Work Education. (2018). Specialized practice curricular guide for macro social work practice Links to an external site..