Social Program Acronyms
CHIP
What is Children's Health Insurance Program?
High political leaders, major corporate owners and executives, & high ranking military officers, control the policies that govern all of society.
What is the elite power theory?
Social workers should provide appropriate professional services in ___ ____ to the greatest extent possible.
What is public emergencies?
These two models for social welfare fairness hold that people should be treated fairly - one in terms of receiving a fair outcome, the other in terms of ensuring that decisions are made in a fair way.
What is Distributive and Procedural justice?
Environmental, social, and cultural factors play no role in shaping an individual, genetics only.
What is biological determinism?
SSI
What is Supplemental Security Income?
What is Critical Theory?
Social workers should advocate for living conditions conducive to the fulfillment of basic human needs and should promote social, economic, political, and cultural values and institutions that are compatible with the realization of social justice.
What is social welfare?
One of the benefits of this intervention model is that by focusing on strengths rather than problems this offers control to the client and a new mindset.
What is strengths-based focus?
"People who grow up poor often remain poor"
What is culture of poverty?
SNAP
What is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program?
Period beginning in the 1980s that emphasized service delivery.
What is Postindustrial era?
Social Workers have ethical responsibilities to clients, colleagues, in practice settings, as professionals, to the social work profession, and to the _____ _____.
What is broader society?
The belief that boys should play with trucks and girls with dolls; eating dogs vs keeping them as pets; deeming 18 as the age of adulthood; certain types of jobs are considered women's work (nurses, teachers) etc.
What are social constructs?
Veteran: I am homeless. I need help finding housing.
Society: You are lazy, get a job.
What is blaming the victim?
TANF
What is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families?
Actions of those in positions of power that control and direct the behavior of the needy.
What is social control?
Social workers should facilitate informed participation by the public in shaping social policies and institutions.
What is Public Participation?
The women's movement was based on ____ ____ of how men had dominated social, political, and economic domains in society and women had been relegated to secondary status.
What is critical analysis?
A macro social worker fights to improve the living accommodations of veterans by advocating for the creation of the Helping Homeless Veterans Act of 2013.
What is Cause?
EITC
What is Earned Income Tax Credit?
In 2010, this act was signed into law, creating a program to provide coverage for those who are uninsured.
What is ACA? (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act)
Social workers should engage in ___ that seeks to ensure that all people have equal access to the resources, employment, services, and opportunities they require to meet their basic human needs and to develop fully.
What is Social and Political Action?
A ___ ____ paradigm provides a framework with which to analyze social concerns and develop policies that reflect the lived experiences of people.
What is Social Empathy?
Historically, national policy failures have meant that veterans are more likely to experience homelessness. A social worker decides to carry out day-to-day efforts to provide services for armed forces who are homeless or living without access to secure and appropriate accommodation.
What is function?