Social Change Project
For your Social Change Project, due as your Final Assignment in Week 10, you will propose policy alternatives that address the social problem you selected for study in Week 2. Before you search for, select, and review policies that already exist for your social problem—and before you propose alternatives based on your findings—it will help to practice the skills of policy review so you can navigate the scope of a policy, narrow your focus, and identify critical areas that relate to your selected social problem.
Submit a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:
- Describe the social problem(s) addressed in the policy.
- Which areas in the policy indicated the social problem(s) to you?
- Why, as a social worker, should you be concerned with the problem(s)?
- Are there other problem(s) not directly identified that might be impacted, positively or adversely, by the policy?
- Which population(s) is/are impacted by the problem?
- What is the relationship between the social problem(s) and the population(s)? In other words, why are some people impacted by the problem(s) when others are not?
- How is/are the population(s) taken into consideration in the policy?
- Summarize the excerpt from the policy that you identified as needing change.
- What are the strengths of this excerpt in helping to alleviate the social problem? If you do not see any strengths, that is okay—explain why.
- What are the limitations of this excerpt in helping to alleviate the social problem(s) for the population(s)?
- What specific changes would you make to the excerpt to alleviate the social problem(s) for the population(s)? You can describe the changes or quote direct policy language you would change.