History & Foundations
This system influenced the U.S. Colonial Poor Laws.
What is the English Poor Laws?
Name the four components of the Gilbert & Terrell Framework
What is Allocation, Provision, Delivery, Financing.
List one key social determinant of health.
What is Income, education, housing, or access to food?
What year was the Affordable Care Act enacted?
What is 2010?
What NASW core value supports advocacy for health equity?
What is Social justice?
Name one distinction between “deserving” and “undeserving” poor in colonial America.
What is Deserving = widows, orphans, disabled; Undeserving = able-bodied jobless.
This is the goal of policy analysis.
What is, to evaluate how policies meet needs and promote equity?
What federal policy provides cash assistance to families in poverty?
What is TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)?
This act established Medicaid and Medicare.
What is the Social Security Amendments of 1965?
How do cultural values shape policy creation?
What is they define who is seen as deserving or undeserving of aid?
This movement linked poverty to morality and led to institutional care.
What is the Temperance movement?
According to Chapin & Lewis, what does “strengths-based policy practice” emphasize?
What is building on community assets and resilience?
How does housing instability affect health outcomes?
What is Increases stress, chronic illness, and barriers to care.
What does “mental health parity” mean?
What is equal insurance coverage for mental and physical health services?
Give one example of a social worker’s advocacy role in policy change.
What is lobbying, testifying, or coalition building?
This key value emerged from the Protestant work ethic that still influences policy.
What is Individual responsibility?
Define “policy allocation"
What is who receives benefits and who is excluded?
What historical policy reinforced racial segregation in housing?
What is Redlining?
Identify one challenge of implementing public mental health reform post-COVID.
What is workforce shortages, funding gaps, or fragmented systems?
Why is ethical reasoning important in policy work?
What is it guides equitable decisions, balancing resources and human rights?
How did industrialization change social welfare delivery?
Shifted from local charity to institutional and government-based care.
Apply the Gilbert & Terrell framework to SNAP: which component determines who qualifies for food assistance?
What is Allocation?
How can social workers address social determinants at the policy level?
What is advocate for equitable housing, education, and employment policies?
How do Medicaid work requirements impact vulnerable populations?
What is reduce access, increase inequities?
How does policy practice connect to the social work code of ethics?
What is policies must uphold dignity, equity, and justice for all populations?