Overview
For this assignment, identify a social policy that is relevant to the practice situation described in the Client/Agency Situation paper.
Policy Selected
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
- 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.
Overall Quality: Paper should be written using appropriate APA format (e.g., citations, cover page, reference page, etc.). It should be free of grammatical errors. This paper is from the perspective of a social worker in Texas, USA. Please make the this section flow with the other sections. I've attached an example and parts 1 and 2 of the paper.