A Matter of Policy
In Tampa, FL, it is illegal to eat this after 6 pm on a Sunday.
What is cottage cheese?
An organizational method for assessing individual or internal life factors, systems of influence, and interpersonal relationships.
What is an eco-map?
True non-judgment toward others means believing this statement, everyone is capable of....
What is that "the full range of human emotion and is capable of making the same choices as any other person given the same circumstances"?
The three levels of social work practice and impact.
What are micro, meso, macro?
What is measurable?
The three kinds of context should you consider in the process of policy development or analysis.
What is institutional, ideological, and historical?
(also acceptable: time, place, culture)
Interventions at this level include education, training, and skills enhancement of those who interact with the target population.
What is the meso level?
Three examples of terms used for respectful behavior toward other groups in the social work field?
What are:
Cultural Awareness
Cultural Sensitivity
Cultural Appropriateness
Cultural Safety
Cultural Competence
Cultural Humility
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Churches and schools are examplea of this kind of system.
What is meso-level?
____ are the changes in attitudes, behaviors, knowledge, skills, or level of functioning that you expect to result from your program activities.
What are outcomes?
The 5 steps of policy analysis (from a practical approach)
What is
(1) targeting the social problem
(2) identifying the causes of the problem
(3) identifying the stakeholders
(4) identifying the values and ideologies and
(5) identifying the policy gaps?
Working to change the behaviors or behavioral intentions of someone is this level of intervention.
What is micro-level?
This critique of cultural competency as a guiding term for practice states that the concept of competence means the goal is mastery and there is an end-point to learning which prevents social workers from doing what?
What is challenging systemic inequalities?
A model for categorizing the effects and impacts of a social issue.
What is the socio-ecological model?
Appropriable relies on existing relationships while intentional starts from scratch.
Policy makers work within a _____ institution.
What is inherited?
Two examples of common community health metrics.
What are:
Demographics
Socioeconomic characteristics
Health resource availability & access
Quality of Life
Behavioral risk factors
Environmental health factors
Social health
Mental health
Maternal & Child health
Death, illness, injury or
Communicable diseases?
These are 3 consequences or outcomes of practicing cultural humility.
What are:
Empowerment
Mutual benefit
Partnerships
Optimal care
Respect
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The difference between the three levels is defined by....
What are the scale and directness of services?
Micro: individuals, directly
Meso: groups, directly
Macro: large groups, indirectly
This is the precursor to social capital and community building.
What is civic engagement?
Policy development requires this which makes the process and impact more complex and subjective.
What is interpretation?
If you are trying to change an institution's or agency's culture or policies, you are working at this level.
What is meso-level?
(Macro-level is policy, and indirect change to large amounts of people. Agency culture only impacts workers or clients of that agency - medium # of people, directly impacted = meso.)
The three types of oppression at the different levels (micro, meso, macro.)
What are, internalized, interpersonal, and institutional?
Communities come together for this purpose.
This is a Florida statue that impacts individuals under the age of 18...
*First group to navigate the Florida statutes webpage and find a policy that impacts children and give the statute code
What is statute #.....?
"Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in 2007 reveal large gaps between reading and math scores for African American, Hispanic, and low-income students and those of white peers and students of higher socioeconomic status."
This statement is identifying and addressing this as a _____ level social issue.
What is meso-level?
(Meso because it is expressed and managed within the school system. Macro-level is the root of the problem, as a reflection of racism and structural oppression - however, this statement was measured at the meso-level and is a direct result of meso-level services)
What are mental hueristic and assumptions?
If you can't find a primary problem or an ideal way to intervene, you should ask yourself this.
What is, "what can be reasonable addressed in the current circumstances?"
It is key to communicate this often overlooked part of community organizing to the members.
What are values and rewards?
In the Rational Policy Making Model discussed in the policy lecture, Prof. Curley states that one of these stages are the most common points for social worker involvement in policy development.
What is stage 1 or 2?
A 49 year-old, Black, male client named Bill has begun services at your agency and conducts his intake assessment with you. Your agency provides substance use treatment and the client denies any drug use despite testing positive at intake for opiates and benzodiazapines. This client is attending intake because his wife is threatening to leave him if he does not seek treatment. The client claims that the positive urinalysis is from an old prescription that he received from his counselor at the Veteran's Affairs Center in another city.
This would be one starting point for shifting perspectives.
What is:
Problem: Substance use / relationship problems
Setting: Substance Use Center
Relevant Policy: Marchman Act, Drug Scheduling
Other features: Coerced treatment / Denial
Client Characteristics: Black, Male, 49 y/o, Veteran, (Legally) Voluntary Client
Identifying bias requires these.
In culturally humble community practice it is important to remember that _______ > _________.
What is shared trauma?