Original Assignment Description:
Your Assessment Plan should be approximately eight pages, excluding the outline, title page, and references.
Social Problem and Topic Choose valid, reliable, and relevant sources of information to identify a persistent or emerging social problem/need that social workers address through micro-, mezzo-, or macro-level practice. You may focus on a topic of interest to you or a topic that complements your practicum or completes your MSW body of work. Be sure to consider how social workers have or could promote social, racial, economic, and/or environmental justice for this social problem. (There must be enough valid, reliable, and relevant empirical evidence to support your Intervention Plan in the second paper.) The social problem is the broader macro-level issue of which your capstone topic is a more specific subset which will include a specific
intervention, population, etc. Be sure to differentiate the social problem from your topic and define and operationalize any relevant terms.
Prevalence Rates Document how many people are affected by the social problem – provide empirical estimates of prevalence. Are any subgroups impacted by this issue more than others? Consider our Code of Ethics (COE) and Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) principles to explain how/why these populations are disproportionately impacted.
Historic and Social Context Briefly provide the history of your social problem/topic. Again, was this history disparately experienced based on group membership? Then, explain the impact of your social problem at the micro-, mezzo-, and macro-levels of practice.
Local Impact/Response Describe the local impact of your topic. Who in the local community is addressing this topic? (Ideally this is Charlotte, but if you are from somewhere else or are familiar with another community, you may use it to describe the topic and response at the local level). What are the current strengths/gaps in services locally (and if necessary, regionally, or globally)?
Theory – Identify and explain one HBSE (Human Behavior in the Social Environment) theory that informs work on this topic or with this population or that undergirds your intervention (using reputable/scholarly sources). Choose just one theory so that you can cover it in depth, as your competency in explaining the role of theory in your project is being assessed. Describe the theorys major tenets and then demonstrate how it informs your topic. Finally, apply ADEI principles to critically examine the strengths and weaknesses of applying this theory to your topic.
The google doc has more information about the section and overall project. There is also some articles already linked and what section it could be used for. The teacher stated that the eight empirical studies should back the intervention as applied to address the social problem but if they dont all fit that’s fine just to get as close a possible. The biggest thing to pay attention to as well in the google doc under assessment plan I listed the subtitles and in () are notes to go along. For example with Historic and Social Content she wants to address the social problem through micro, mezzo, macro settings.
PS: The prevalence rate and historic content is about the social problem, the local impact is about the intervention and theory Is your theory.
If it’s a struggle im willing to change the social problem, topic, intervention or theory based research found and what’s easier to do so defiantly can discuss adjustments if need be.
This is also the first section of three so want something I easily pick up on when going into paper 2.
PS: this is also a draft so does not need to be perfect.