Discuss Ethical Use of Technology in Macro Practice
Discuss Ethical Use of Technology in Macro Practice
Instructions
For this assignment, consider how macro social work techniques can fit into your practice and how you can integrate these to make a difference in the communities you serve.
Prepare a brief reflection paper addressing the following:
Begin by describing the roots of macro practice in the history and development of social work as a profession/discipline.
Describe how macro fits within your ethical obligations as a social worker.
Explain how the development of the Internet and access to public databases and records have influenced macro practice. What ethical problems are presented by this use of technology and how might you address these issues.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 3-5 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
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MSW6003 Professional Practice with Organizations and Communities
Week 2 Assignment
Critique a Community Concerning Effective Engagement with Members
Instructions
When you are engaging communities, it is important to understand the nongeographical factors within the community (e.g., professional, spiritual, ethnic, racial, sexual orientation). For this assignment, build on last week’s work to explain how you will engage a specific community.
Assume you have been asked to describe your community to a new potential employer (e.g., the next Amazon headquarters, a large factory). This company is looking to understand why your community would be the best place to invest their resources. It is up to you to describe the strengths and challenges of your community to support the investment of this employer. Be sure to be honest about the challenges facing your community while being an advocate for what the community has to offer.
For your identified community, address the following:
Explain the strengths of the community you are assessing.
Determine the inherent challenges in that community.
Interpret the reasons members belong to that community.
Analyze the impact of community membership on specific community members.
Identify the leaders (both elected and unelected) of the community.
Consider how you, as a social worker, would engage members of the community to support your advocacy efforts.
Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists and should cite material appropriately. Add audio to each slide using the Media section of the Insert tab in the top menu bar for each slide.
Support your presentation with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.
Length: 12-15 slides (with a separate reference slide)
Notes Length: 100-150 words for each slide
Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate. Save the file as PPT with the correct course code information. Upload your document, and then click the Submit to Dropbox button.
MSW6003 Professional Practice with Organizations and Communities
Week 3 Assignment
Examine Your Implicit Biases
Instructions
To better understand our own biases, complete the Implicit Association Test (IAT) found within this week’s resources. These tests use images to gauge information about biases that people may not consciously recognize. According to Project Implicit, the IAT measures the strength of associations between concepts (e.g., black people, gay people) and evaluations (e.g., good, bad) or stereotypes (e.g., athletic, clumsy). Reflecting on results of assessments such as this one are one way that social workers can understand how their personal experiences and affective reactions influence their professional judgment and behavior
After completing self-assessments in this week’s resources, reflect on the role of implicit biases in the consideration of diversity within your social work practice. Prepare a written analysis of the following:
Indicate whether you were surprised by the results of your IAT.
Analyze the dimensions of oppression and marginalization that might influence your future clients and their communities. Be specific in identifying the types of clients and the communities with whom you might work.
Explain how the concepts of cultural competence and cultural humility are relevant to social work practice. Provide examples to illustrate your thoughts.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
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MSW6003 Professional Practice with Organizations and Communities
Week 4 Assignment 1
Explore an Organizational and Policy Solution for a Community Need
Instructions
This week, you will prepare a pamphlet. As a social worker, assume you have been asked to address community leaders and members who are advocating for their social and economic needs to be met. For this assignment, select a specific community need you would like to learn more about.
Based on this identified community need, design a mock organization to meet the needs of that community. Identify the mission of your agency in terms of its work for human rights and social and/or economic justice, discuss the services you plan to provide and the populations to be served. You can create any type of agency and be creative in your approach.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 2-3 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where appropriate. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
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MSW6003 Professional Practice with Organizations and Communities
Week 4 Assignment 2
Apply Theory to Further Develop an Evidence-Based Approach to Management
Instructions
Community leaders are open to your ideas and had a few questions. They are looking to see that your plan is evidence-based. They want to see that you are able to formulate policy that will advance the cause of the organization. Prepare a memo for community leaders and fellow social workers as a follow up to address concerns in the first assignment. Now that you have created your mock agency, apply a theoretical perspective to your management of the organization. Be sure to explain how the theory will relate to the management system and document any implications for service delivery in this community.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 1-2 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where appropriate. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
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MSW6003 Professional Practice with Organizations and Communities
Week 5 Assignment
Assess an Organization
Instructions
Select a human service organization/agency that serves the community you profiled in earlier assignments. Then, develop a written critique of the agency to address the following:
Describe the organization and its fit within the community.
Include the organization’s mission statement.
Explain the services provided through this organization.
Identify the primary populations served by the organization
Determine if the organization is culturally competent. Be specific in your explanation and provide examples as necessary.
Drawing on theories of human behavior and the social environment, describe characteristics of the organization that impact its ability to engage its clients.
Explain the technology this organization uses to serve its clients.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
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MSW6003 Professional Practice with Organizations and Communities
Week 6 Assignment
Recommend a Plan for Change
Instructions
Based on your community and organizational assessment, create a plan for change/intervention to address a gap in services or community need that you have identified. Once you have identified this problem, prepare a proposal for community leaders and elected officials that includes the following:
Begin by briefly introducing the community and identified gap in services or need.
Describe possible data on the identified gap in service or need to assist in developing an intervention hypothesis.
Develop an intervention hypothesis.
Define those stakeholders who need to be involved in the planned change.
Examine the capacity for change.
Select an evidence-based change approach and be sure to justify your recommendation(s).
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 4-6 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
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MSW6003 Professional Practice with Organizations and Communities
Week 7 Assignment
Evaluate an Existing Intervention
Instructions
Community members and leaders are excited about the plan you enacted. However, they are concerned about sustaining these positive changes and look to you for guidance on how your plan will remain successful. You intend to hold a community meeting to discuss these concerns and explain how you plan to monitor and evaluate your plan.
Develop an evaluation/monitoring plan for the intervention you created during the previous week in the form of an audio PowerPoint presentation. As part of this evaluation, be sure to include the following:
Indicate the goals of the intervention (make sure they are measurable).
Create and present outcome objectives to align with the goals of your intervention.
Describe how you will initiate your implementation and monitoring plan.
Explain the technology and related methods you will use to monitor effectiveness.
Discuss how you will determine whether the intervention was effective. Provide examples to support your claims.
Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists and should cite material appropriately. Add audio to each slide using the Media section of the Insert tab in the top menu bar for each slide.
Support your presentation with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.
Length: 12-15 slides (with a separate reference slide)
Notes Length: 100-150 words for each slide
Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate. Save the file as PPT with the correct course code information.
Upload your document, and then click the Submit to Dropbox button.
MSW6003 Professional Practice with Organizations and Communities
Week 8 Assignment
Signature Assignment: Analyze a Social Welfare Issue with a Community Organization Leader
Instructions
Using the organization/community you have examined throughout this course, trace the funding and/or creation of the organization back to a social policy that supports the organization or community.
Then, interview the leader of a community organization or agency. Be sure to ask the following questions:
What particular community need is the agency addressing?
How does the agency/organization address the community?
What social policies guide the running of the agency?
How does the organization engage diverse populations?
What theories (if any) guide the running of the organization?
What are three organizational policies that are particularly relevant to the provision of services?
What are the primary interventions used in the organization? Are these interventions evidence-based?
How often is the organization assessed?
How is the assessment conducted?
How is the agency funded?
After you complete your interview, reflect on what you learned and describe any changes you would make to the organizations. How do you think the community can be better served by the agency? Explain if the agency is adaptable to changes within the community. After examining the community served by the agency, explain any unmet needs you identified.
Support your assignment with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 10-12 pages, not including title and reference pages. Be sure to include your signed consent form with your submission.
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
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