Overview
The purpose of this assignment is to explore a social justice problem that addresses a specific population or subgroup (for example, access to health care, access to social services, immigration, or veterans' mental health and services). This should be a problem that presents current challenges for social workers providing services and support. You will need to investigate the various forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination within this social justice problem and identify policies that are currently enacted to address this problem. Ultimately, you will choose one of these policies as the topic for your policy analysis in the coming assignments in this course. I want to focus on the incaeration rates of black men.
- APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards.
- Cited resources: A minimum of five scholarly sources. Most literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years.
- Length of paper: 4–6 typed, double-spaced pages.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
- Due date: Assignment must be submitted to your instructor in the courseroom no later than Sunday, 11:59 p.m. CST, this week
- Competency 1: Use social justice, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive lenses to assess how social welfare policies affect the delivery of and access to social services. (C5.GP.A)
- Describe the current enacted policies to address the selected social justice problem. (C5.GP.A)
- Assess the impact of policies related to the selected social justice problem on a specific population or subgroup. (C5.GP.A)
- Compare advocacy methods for the selected social justice problem. (C5.GP.A)
- Competency 2: Demonstrate cultural humility by applying critical reflection, self-awareness, and self-regulation to manage the influence of bias, power, privilege, and values in working with clients and constituencies, acknowledging them as experts of their own lived experiences. (C3.GP.B)
- Analyze the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination that exist within a selected social justice problem and their impact on a specific population or subgroup. (C3.GP.B)
- Analyze the ethical problems associated with the selected social justice issue with support from scholarly sources. (C3.GP.B)
- Analyze the feasibility of policies related to the selected social justice problem. (C3.GP.B)
- Competency 3: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.
- Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.