Explain a strategy you might use as a social worker to address the impact of class and class differences on the lives of your clients.

DQ1 Classism

Post by Day 3 an analysis of how classism has factored into your life. Then, explain a strategy you might use as a social worker to address the impact of class and class differences on the lives of your clients.

By Day 5, respond to at least two colleagues’ posts by explaining how your own past experience with classism is similar to or different from your colleagues’. Also explain how issues might reveal themselves in your future social work practice in a manner similar to or different from that which your colleagues anticipate.

DQ2 Power, Privilege, and Classism        

An explanation of how classism is demonstrated in the Hernandez video.

Identify specific barriers to social services that the Hernandez family experiences because of their class status (e.g., working poor).

Explain how the intersection of class (e.g., working poor), ethnicity (e.g., Hispanic), and migration history (e.g., move from Puerto Rico to mainland) may further impact the

Hernandez’s experience.

Identity 2-3 strengths in the Hernandez family.

Provide recommendations for how social workers might address issues of classism present in the Hernandez case.

Explain how recommendations would address class issues

Respond by Day 7 to at least two colleagues by critiquing their analysis and providing alternative recommendations for how social workers might advocate for change and address classist policies in their agencies and society at large.