Policy & justice

Policy And Social Justice Instructions (3rd part of the integrative paper outline)

INSTRUCTIONS

· For this assignment, identify a social policy that is relevant to the practice situation described in the Client Overview Paper you submitted a couple weeks back. (Client overview is the 2nd part of the paper. You’ve completed the 1st part (integrative outline) and the 2nd part (Client Overview), I’ve attached both the ones you completed for your reference)

Step 1: Draft Your Paper

· You will write a first draft of your paper and submit for peer feedback. You will get the most out of this activity if your draft paper is as developed as possible.

Policy Selected

· Provide an overview of the policy and describe how it applies to the practice situation. This policy should be an existing current state or federal policy (e.g., laws, court decisions, or regulations), rather than an agency policy. Make sure to cite the policy. Do not use an agency, organization or internal hospital policy.

· Here are a few ideas for Social Policies:

· secularization-separation of church and state

· funding of faith-based organizations

· policies related to discrimination

· poverty

· child support policies

· TANF

· Supplemental Social Security (disabled adults, children with severe disabilities)

· working poor, minimum wage

· general assistance programs,

· food stamps, free lunch programs, emergency food program assistance program, summer food

· service program, special milk program, school breakfast program

· Farming policy; dumping of toxic waste

· Social Insurance

· Unemployment, SS Disability

· Medicare

· Social Security

· Workers Compensation

· Assets for Independence Act (individual development accounts for low income)

· Tax policy—federal and state, Fiscal Cliff

· Health care policy

· Affordable Care Act implementation

· Medicare reforms

· Medicaid

· State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-Chips)-federal/state partnership to cover uninsured children

· reimbursement rates

· nursing home, hospitals

· health maintenance organizations (HMOs), managed care

· underinsured, uninsured, COBRA

· Corrections

· Drug policies

· Gun Control

· Mental Health

· The Community Mental Health Centers Act

· deinstitutionalization

· substance abuse

· Mental Health Parity Act

· Licensing of social workers

· Sex offender registry

· Child Welfare policy

· CAPTA, AACWA, McKinney-Vento Act, Chafee Act  

· Child care policies

· foster care, adoption, Head Start

· No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top

· WIC

· Housing Policy

· HUD

· Section 8

· International/global policies

· UN Convention on the Rights of Children

Policy Analysis Model

· Identify and describe a policy analysis model to be used to evaluate the policy and include a brief analysis of the policy using the model selected. Please make sure to cite the model used. Provide an overview of the policy and describe how it applies to the practice situation.

· Here are a few helpful resources in this area:

· American Association for Policy Analysis and ManagementLinks to an external site.

· McNutt, J. G. & Hoefer, R. (2016).  Chapter 6: Policy Analysis-Tools for Building Evidence-Based Social Policy.  In Social Welfare Policy: Responding to a Changing World. Oxford University Press.

· Karger, H., & Stoesz, D. (2010). American social welfare policy: A pluralist approach.

· Bardach, E., & Patashnik, E. M. (2015). A practical guide for policy analysis: The eightfold path to more effective problem solving. CQ press.

Policy Recommendations

· Based on your review, provide recommendations for policymakers regarding a policy review, application, formulation, and/or revision of the policy.

Social Justice Implications

· Discuss the social justice implications for the client situation based on the selected policy and provide an advocacy plan at the micro, mezzo, and macro level. For example, if the policy discriminates against the population related to your practice situation, provide a plan for how you might advocate for change for your individual client(s), the agency, or at the legislative level.

Ethical Challenge and/or Value Conflict

· Identify and describe one or more potential ethical or values conflict(s) related to the policy as it applies to this practice situation.

Required – 3 pages for this section.

(Please use the references that you mentioned in the outline for this section and you can also add additional references) Please also use subheadings as needed.

Please find attached the outline that was completed as the first part of this assignment. This outline will serve as the foundation for the remaining sections.

I’ve also attached the full assignment description and instructions, which detail the requirements for each section. These sections are due every two weeks, and I will be submitting a request for each part accordingly. You’ve already completed the Integrative Paper Outline and Client Overview. Now we’re on the 3rd part.

Please continue to follow the structure established in the initial outline. Each section has specific page requirements, which I will clearly indicate when assigning them every two weeks. The sections that is likely to have more page requirements are Engagement, Assessment, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Policy and Social Justice, and Intervention and Evaluation.

Thank you again for all your help.

Full Description of Major Assessments and Examinations

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of practice and theory in your area of specialization. Select a client, client system or target population from your graduate level social work Practicum. The selected client or client system should reflect your chosen specialization. For example, if you are a CAP student you should select an agency, community or other social intervention. If your specialization is mental health, you should chose an individual, family or small group with mental health and/or substance misuse issues and concerns. If your area of specialization is family and children, you should choose an individual, family or small group with issues and concerns related to family and children. The client system you choose for your paper should be a real case from your Practicum placement. If you have an issue or problem with selecting a case from your Practicum placement, please see or talk with your instructor. All exceptions must be approved by the instructor. In no circumstances are family members, friends, or characters from media to be used as the client system in the paper.

 (My specialization is Mental health)

Integrative Paper Outline

 

Use the template in the assignments module to complete the outline assignment. The template is set up so you can compose directly onto the document, save, and upload as your assignment submission.

 

Client Situation. (Overview)

 

Describe the client system. (e.g., individual, family, other small group, larger group, team, program, agency, organization or community) and the client’s situation that is the reason for your intervention. Include a discussion of how this client’s situation fits into your area of specialization. For example, if your area of specialization is mental health, describe how the client’s issues/concerns fit the definition of mental health, mental illness, and/or mental well-being.

Apply, synthesize and analyze knowledge, theory, and skills in relation to the client system.

 

Engagement, Assessment, Human Behavior and the Social Environment

 

Describe how you did engage the client in the assessment and intervention. What specific skills did you use to engage the client?

 

Describe your efforts to collect, organize and interpret information about the client. What are the client’s strengths and limitations?

Your assessment should include a discussion of relevant issues of age, class, color, disability, ethnicity, family structure, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, stigma, and/or sexual orientation as applicable to your client. Be sure that your discussion of diversity links well with the client and or client situation.

 

Discuss how the issues of social and economic justice and human and civil rights may relate to this specific practice situation.

Select and describe one or more of the most relevant HBSE theories that contribute to the client’s issues and concerns.

 

Briefly explain the theory and how this theory is relevant to your client’s area of concern/problem situation.

 

Policy and Social Justice

 

Select and describe one or more of the most relevant social policies relevant to the practice situation. This policy section refers to state and federal policies (laws, court decisions, or regulations), not agency policy. Be sure to cite the laws and policies correctly (as you should with all literature you reference).

 

Briefly explain the policy and how it is relevant to your client’s area of concern/problem situation.

 

Use a policy analysis model to analyze the effectiveness of the policy for the general client group you have chosen and then your client specifically. Include carefully referenced literature sources including books; peer-reviewed journal articles; research studies; government documents, reports and data; and web sites. While this is not expected in the space available to be a full policy analysis, you should draw on one of the policy analysis models with which you are familiar, and reference the model fully.

 

Based on your analysis, what would you advocate in terms of policy review, application, formulation, or revision?

 

 

Intervention and Evaluation

 

Present a mutually developed and agreed upon intervention strategy with specific goals and objectives. Provide a rationale for your selection.

 

Describe your intervention from beginning to end, including termination. How did you help the client prevent or resolve problems? How did you negotiate mediate and advocate for your client. Select and discuss at least 3 practice skills (micro/macro) used in your intervention with the client.

 

Write a critique of your work with the client. What did you do well in terms of the intervention? What could have been done to improve the outcomes with the client? How was the intervention empowering? How may it have been discriminatory or oppressive?

 

Provide a discussion of whether the intervention was developed from a theoretical practice model. If so, which practice theory? If not, what practice theory could have been used to facilitate better outcomes? Regardless, analyze and provide evidence- based knowledge about the theory-based intervention (used or proposed) and its effectiveness.

 

Select one of the methods used to evaluate change and improvement with clients/client systems (single subject, pretest/posttest or other). Provide a rationale for the evaluation method you selected. Describe the method and how you would facilitate using that method to collect data to assess change and improvement.

 

Ethics and Conclusion

 

Critically review your practice situation and intervention as an external observer and comment on the following:

Identify and describe one or more potential ethical and values issues related to this practice situation. Be sure to reference the NASW Code of Ethics in your discussion.

 

Discuss how this assignment raises issues of professional strengths and challenges. Formulate a plan for lifelong professional learning and continuing education.

NOTE: The final document should be between 20-25 double-spaced pages (not including references or a cover page) and in 12-point font. Your paper must adhere to APA style (6th edition).