Instructions
Social policy connects to all aspects of social work practice, even if the connections are not always immediately obvious. For this assignment, you will look at policy implications of a social problem that is important to you. Your goal is to find some of the federal, state, or other policies which affect the prevention of, interventions for, or understanding of your social problem.
To find a policy related to your social problem, navigate to the Encyclopedia of Social Workthrough the YU library (if that link doesn’t work for you, navigate to the main library website and then search “Encyclopedia of Social Work” in the search bar). You might have to look at a few articles to find what you need. Choose “policy” or “political” as a search option for “heading” or search on the topic of interest to you, something short like “health care” or “mental health” or “discrimination.”
Choose an article about a social problem of interest to you from the Encyclopedia and discuss the policy implications of that problem. Answer the following questions in your initial post:
What is the social problem, and why is it important to you?
What policy or policies affect the social problem?
How does this policy or policies affect the problem? (For example, do the policies contribute to the cause? How we intervene? How we understand the problem?)
What don’t you know about this policy or other policies that might relate to this problem that you would like to know?