Who Needs Care?
___ make up the largest percentage of people living in poverty and often depend on adults to meet their basic needs.
Who are children?
___ are some actions we can take to support people living in poverty?
What are food pantries, donating clothes, food, school supplies, volunteering, creating awareness?
___ ethical approach focuses on caring for others and maintaining relationships.
What is the care ethics?
A student in your class can’t afford lunch, and you notice they skip eating most days. A care ethicist would ...
What is a care ethicist would start by attentively engaging with the student to understand their needs through a relationship grounded in empathy and respect.
___ individuals lack stable, safe housing and often rely on shelters, outreach workers, and community care networks for survival.
Who are homeless/unhoused people?
___ is the money from the federal government that helps students pay for education in the form of grants, scholarships, work-study programs, and loans?
What is Financial Aid?
___ is being able to understand how someone else is feeling.
What is empathy?
Your neighbor loses their job and is struggling to pay their bills. A Care Ethicist would ...
What is might offer ongoing help such as rides, meals, or emotional support. Real moral action isn’t just helping once. It’s remaining attentive to the person’s evolving needs and supporting them over time within a relationship.
___ structure is statistically more likely to experience poverty due to childcare responsibilities and wage disparities.
What are single-parent households?
___ is the joint federal and state program that provides health coverage to eligible low-income individuals and families?
What is Medicaid?
___ moral decisions often come from paying attention to these people close to us, like family and friends.
Who are the people we have relationships with?
A town is deciding whether to close a community center that many low-income families rely on. A care ethicist would ...
What is a care ethicist would argue against the closure because it ignores how it would harm these specific people.
___ often have fixed incomes, which age group faces high medical costs and social isolation, increasing their vulnerability in poverty.
Who are elderly people?
___ act is a comprehensive healthcare reform law enacted in 2010 that aims to make health insurance more affordable and accessible for the uninsured?
What is The Affordable Care Act (ACA)/ Obamacare
___ aims to ensure that people who need help,such as children, the elderly, or the sick,receive consistent support and protection.
What is a care-based policy?
A social worker must decide between giving equal time to all clients or spending more time with a family in crisis who faces eviction. A Care Ethicist would ...
What is a care ethicist would choose to prioritize the struggling family because equality isn’t as important as this moral responsibility.
___ includes people whose work is unpaid but essential, and who often struggle financially due to caregiving responsibilities.
Who are carers?
___ is the US government program that provides monthly electronic benefits to low-income households to help them purchase eligible food?
What is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)/ Food Stamps
___ says that humans need this from others, especially when we are young, sick, or elderly.
What is care?
A government is designing an anti-poverty program. A care ethicist would ...
what is a Care Ethicist would push for policies that strengthen childcare, elder care, and community support networks, because they believe society should be built around this central ethical idea.