Values
If the policy meets a set standard of need.
How can you tell if a policy meets the value of adequacy?
A group of people who are united behind one concern, issue or interest.
What is a faction?
Process in the Senate or House in which a bill is directed to a small group of legislators to consider, edit and bring to a vote; can be “buried” if the Chairperson does not support it.
What is a committee assignment?
A group of 5-6 volunteers who help a candidate run the campaign.
What is a campaign committee?
Period of great upheaval in the U.S. with large influx of immigrants, volatile economy, dangerous and unregulated working conditions when worker protection legislation began to be passed.
What is the Progressive Era?
Policies that are concerned with fairness--especially rewarding citizens who have contributed into the system or other criteria.
What is equity?
A well-developed political organization grounded in larger philosophies and belief systems that are expressed through a central agenda.
What is a political party?
Where a bill is sent for resolution when it has passed both chambers of the legislature, but in different versions.
What is a conference committee?
How much money can I raise and what are my most compelling messages?
What questions should you ask if you’re considering running for public office?
A time of extreme poverty and high unemployment after the stock market crashed when the Social Security Act was passed (as part of the “New Deal” legislative package).
What was the Depression?
Policies that distribute resources and opportunities equally, applying the benefit formula equally across individuals.
What is equality?
Political party representatives from state-level parties across the country who gather once or twice per year to call attention to candidates and party agendas.
What is a national committee?
An association of individuals or organizations that attempt to influence public policy
What is an interest group?
12-15% of voters who are undecided and whose votes will determine the outcome of an election
What are low-information voters?
After WWII when social workers turned away from policy practice to instead provide mental health services and developed the profession organizationally, forming the NASW
What was Social Work's "second retreat" from activism?
An ethic of care value that asserts we are more effective pursuing goals while supporting each other rather than competing or separated from each other.
What is collaboration?
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution that guarantee individual liberty.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Laws, NASW Practice Standards, NASW Code of Ethics, Social Norms
What are Boundaries of ethical lobbying for Social Workers?
Working with people to solve problems that have a big impact regardless of political views and party lines.
What is good governance?
Policy practitioners who used their policy expertise gained during the 1930’s to help develop new social programs in the 1960’s.
Who were the policy practitioners who crafted the New Deal legislation?
An ethic of care value that views life as a human web, asserting "we are all in this together," and "what touches one, touches all."
What is inclusion?
The party that believes that individual rewards come through individual effort, requiring individuals to pay into programs before they can reap the benefits.
What is Conservative?
The practice of attempting to influence the decisions of government conducted by professionals hired by large national organizations to local social service agency staff who meet with legislators.
What is lobbying?
The most effective form of campaigning.
What is door to door canvassing?
The two social action movements during the Progressive Era that established a “false dichotomy” for the field of social work: research, community action and reform vs. casework and individual empowerment.
What were Settlement Houses and Charity Organization Societies?