week 6 assignment 386

SOC-386_T6_MacroLevelSocialWork_ChildProtectiveServicesandBureaucracyOutlineWorksheet.docx

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SOC-386 Topic 6: Macro Level Social Work: Child Protective Services and Bureaucracy Outline Worksheet

Directions: This worksheet provides an outline for Part II of your essay that is due in Topic 8. You will use the answers that you put in the boxes next to the prompt to complete your final paper. Your responses for the worksheet should total between 500 to 750 words. The answer you provide in Part I should be developed enough so that your instructor can give you valuable feedback. Please include three to five scholarly references at the end of this worksheet.

Macro Level Social Work: Child Protective Services and Bureaucracy Outline

Social work practice at the macro level involves advocating for social change and social action, eliminating economic disparities, social injustice, and exploitation.

Explore the website of the Child Protective Service (CPS) agency for your state. Find articles on CPS from your state that discuss organizational issues or dysfunctions regarding the agency at a macro level. This assignment examines the functions and dysfunctions of organizational structure. Use the table in the worksheet to address the following:

Area to Address	Response
1. Describe three to four examples from your local or state articles on CPS to support concepts from each of the organizational theories.	1. 2. 3. 4.
2. Explore two websites of agencies that CPS collaborates with and discuss the services that those agencies provide that support the state’s CPS organization.	1. 2.
3. Explore two websites and discuss how the different organizations address diversity.	1. 2.
4. How would you address ethics and diversity in your chosen role? How would you support the organizations diversity policies or initiatives?
5. What are the functions of CPS as a bureaucracy? Use Weber’s theory.
6. What are the dysfunctions of CPS as a bureaucracy? Use Weber’s theory.
7. How would you apply systems theory to CPS?
8. What suggestions do you have for improving large bureaucratic agencies such as CPS?

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