Social Work

Planning a Group Developing a new treatment group often takes formal and extensive planning, including a written proposal to the sponsoring agency. This proposal should answer the basic questions of Why? Who? How? Why does the agency and surrounding community need the group? Who will the group be serving, and who will lead it? And […]

Proposed Organizational Assessment/Intervention (Parts I & II) Assignment DescriptionIn this assignment, students will conduct a guided organizational analysis and interventionplanning exercise using a systems-thinking, trauma-informed, and equity-oriented lens.Drawing on Netting et al.s organizational assessment framework, Strohs systems thinkingapproach, the Trauma Resilient Communities (TRC) and Sanctuary Model, students willindividually complete multiple organizational assessment tools, synthesize patterns […]

2.4. Policy recommendations (250 words) Make policy recommendations based on earlier described cross-state and cross-country examples do not introduce new research results/ideas. Explain (justify) your choice of policy recommendation. Somebody reading your paper should be able to make a clear case for or against your alternative and current policy. A reader should be able to […]

Since you’ll be missing class, it would be helpful if you could complete a short make-up assignmenta brief summary (350 words) of one course reading of your choice each week. Specifically, please write one summary about an article from the Early Childhood week (4/2) and another summary about an article from the Middle Childhood week […]

Program Goal and Intended Outcomes According to Dudley (2020), measurable outcomes (or objectives) can have three properties: performance, conditions, and criteria. Performance refers to the observable action taken in order to achieve the outcome, whereas conditions include the context surrounding the action (e.g., after, if, during). Finally, criteria refer to the quality of the performance […]

Planning a Family Session Do you typically map out and meticulously prepare for something, or go with the flow and adapt to whatever comes? Even if you are in the latter group, some sense of planninghowever informalis necessary in family social work to ensure you use sessions optimally. Planning can help you focus, gather the […]

Outlining a Program-Level Logic Model It is unlikely that an idea for a program will get instant support from stakeholders. Rather, social workers must typically present a proposal that demonstrates critical thought and shows the need for such a program. In other situations, social workers may submit requests for funding on behalf of their agencies. […]

Culture in Groups Much of the success of a group can be attributed to its composition. Group composition encompasses not only the groups size and treatment focus but also characteristics of diversity such as gender, age, ability, and race and ethnicity. Imagine a group in which all members are of the same ethnicity except for […]

For the Final Evaluation, students must submit an 4-7 page reflection on practice which demonstrates critical thinking in the integration of social work knowledge, values, and skillsand reflection on personal growth. This paper should be uploaded into the final evaluation inSonia.All assigned papers or essays must be typed, or word processed. All papers must conform […]

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