Unit5Assign/DiscSCPP

Shortlist of Common Human Services Social Change and Public Policy Issues

The London School of Economics defines Social Policy as "an interdisciplinary and applied subject concerned with the analysis of societies' responses to social need", calling on Human Services Professionals to understand theory and evidence drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines, including economics, sociology, psychology, geography, history, law, philosophy and political science.

Governmental Issues

• Battered women’s shelter controversy. • Wealthy benefactor - donated land searching for a place to put it, businesses and

established members of the community object. • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families • Supplemental Nutritional Assistance • Child Care • Early childhood education • Child welfare, support • Older person, Aging Services • Supplemental Security Income • Families in Poverty • Affordable Housing • Human Trafficking • Womens’ Health • Euthanasia • Recreational Drug Use • Incarceration Reform • Housing • Education • Human Rights and disabilities • Involuntary Disappearances • The Right to Food • Freedom of Religion or Belief • HIV/AIDS • Rights of Persons Belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities

• Elimination of Racial Discrimination • Contemporary forms of Slavery • Prevention of Torture • Right to Water and Sanitation • Gender, racial ethnic equality

Non-Governmental Organization: https://www.unodc.org/ngo/list.jsp

• Juvenile justice • Women in contemporary society • Anti-Drug and Narcotics • Gender, racial ethnic equality • Contemporary forms of Slavery • Battered Women services • Labor Rights • HIV/AIDS • Labor, Health and Education • Violence against Women • Rights of Persons Belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities • Native Language Revitalization • Cultural Rights

For-Profit - Organization

• Abuses of migrant workers • child labor • human trafficking • Work casualization - short-term and contract employment • Surveillance of Digital Communications • Adverse Rights of small farmers and local communities from Land Acquisition • Business crime, stolen public property, bribery, corruption and tax evasion • Sexual Violence in the Workplace • Business social responsibilities to community • Cultural, Ethnic, social diversity in employment • Observing human rights