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Kevin Menard

YesterdayDec 5 at 2:06pm

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I am open to work with different populations. I have an extensive background working with children, but I am interested in working with different ages. I am interested in healthcare social work. Therefore, this aspect of the history of social work will fit. In 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president during the Great Depression Era. He made extreme changes in social welfare policy. He put into effect the New Deal. This new policy provided “unemployment insurance, social security system for older people, dependent children, and individual with physical challenges.” (Cox et al., 2019, p. 30-31) The New Deal provided more opportunities of employment, but it did not address racial discrimination.

In the 1930s social workers organized the rank and file movement. This movement started because social workers realized that they were underpaid, they were overworked, and their living situations were barely better than their clients. (Cox et al., 2019, p. 31) They created unions, but after World War II, the movement was dissolved. The people who worked in this movement were linked to the communist party and, they were fired. (Cox et al., 2019, p. 31)

These historical events relate to my work in this field because if I could help clients with social security issues, employment, etc. As I progress in my studies I hope to understand social welfare policy more. 

I would like to become a strong advocate for my clients in the future. Advocacy is part of the mission of social work and aligns with my social work career goals. As I was reading the text this caught my eye. Cause advocacy necessitates social workers to be knowledgeable about social action and ways to create social change. Social workers engage in many types of cause advocacy, such as legal advocacy, legislative advocacy, self-advocacy, and system advocacy. (Cox et al., 2019, p. 58)

References

Cox, L. E., Tice C. G., & Long D. D. (2019). Introduction to social work: An advocacy-based profession (2nd ed.) SAGE Publications, Inc.

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References

Cox, L. E., Tice, C. J., & Long, D. D. (2019). Introduction to social work: An advocacy-based profession (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications, Inc.