Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination
This concept, coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, describes how multiple social identities (like race, gender, and class) overlap to create unique experiences of oppression or privilege.
What is intersectionality?
This term refers to the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on marginalized communities, often due to factors like race, class, or geography.
What is environmental injustice?
This government agency is responsible for investigating reports of child abuse and neglect, ensuring the safety and well-being of children in the U.S.
What is Child Protective Services (CPS)?
This term refers to a person’s emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing how they think, feel, and act, as well as how they handle stress and relate to others.
What is mental health?
This term refers to medical conditions that existed before an individual’s health insurance coverage began, which, under the Affordable Care Act, cannot be used to deny coverage or increase premiums.
What are preexisting conditions?
This discriminatory practice, beginning in the 1930s, involved denying loans or insurance to people in certain neighborhoods, often based on racial composition.
What is redlining?
This field of social work focuses on the intersection of environmental issues and social justice, addressing how environmental degradation disproportionately impacts marginalized communities
What is environmental social work?
This legal requirement mandates that certain professionals, such as teachers and healthcare workers, report suspected cases of child abuse or neglect to authorities.
What is mandatory reporting?
This process, which began in the mid-20th century, involved moving individuals with mental health conditions out of large institutional settings and into community-based care, with the goal of improving their quality of life.
What is deinstitutionalization?
This landmark U.S. legislation, passed in 2010, aimed to expand healthcare access, reduce healthcare costs, and improve the quality of care, including provisions like Medicaid expansion and protections for pre-existing conditions.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
This type of poverty is measured against a fixed standard, while the other is defined in relation to the economic status of others in a society.
What are absolute poverty and relative poverty?
This three pronged approach focuses on meeting present needs while addressing the harms caused by past actions, ensuring that future generations can meet their needs too.
What is the Sustainable Development Framework?
This type of abuse involves harmful behaviors, such as constant criticism, rejection, or verbal threats, which negatively impact a child's emotional and psychological well-being.
What is psychological abuse?
This term refers to the unforeseen negative effects that arose from deinstitutionalization, such as increased homelessness or lack of adequate community-based care for individuals with untreated mental health conditions.
What is an unintended consequence?
This term refers to the situation where individuals earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to afford private insurance through the marketplace, often affecting those in states that did not expand Medicaid.
What is the coverage gap?
This official U.S. poverty measure, developed in the 1960s, is based mainly on the cost of food and does not account for modern expenses like housing or child care.
What is the Official Poverty Measure?
This approach views the economy, society, environment, and political governance as interconnected systems, where stress on one can affect the balance and sustainability of the entire framework.
What is the Ecosystems Approach to Sustainable Policy Change?
This U.S. law, first passed in 1974, provides federal funding to states for the prevention, assessment, investigation, and treatment of child abuse and neglect.
What is the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)?
This term refers to the consumption of alcohol, drugs, or other substances in a way that can negatively affect a person's physical health, mental well-being, or social functioning.
What is substance misuse?
This provision of the Affordable Care Act aimed to extend healthcare coverage to more low-income individuals by expanding eligibility for Medicaid in participating states."
What is Medicaid expansion?
This term describes the unique, chronic stress faced by people from marginalized groups due to experiences like discrimination, stigma, and prejudice.
What is minority stress?
In both Flint, MI and Jackson, MS, this is the key factor contributing to the water crisis, with marginalized communities bearing the brunt of the impact.
What is systemic racism or environmental racism?
DAILY DOUBLE: This international document, adopted by the United Nations in 1989, outlines the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of children, aiming to protect and empower them globally.
What is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)?
This type of care allows individuals to receive medical or therapeutic treatment without being admitted to a hospital, typically through scheduled appointments or visits in the community.
What is outpatient care?
This concept involves shifting the focus of healthcare from treating illness to preventing it, with policies that emphasize population health management, wellness programs, and early intervention strategies.
What is preventive care?