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Advocacy is a form of engagement that can occur in many areas. As you complete this course, reflect on the ways in which a passion expressed as a goal can become social change. Then, focus on how you might be able to become an advocate, become an advocate, both for your community and practice. You will learn more about social change and advocacy in your future policy courses.

• Apply policy advocacy in social work practice Recall the policies you have examined and researched throughout the course.
• Consider the social issues examined in this course and the ones you have encountered in your own practice or community.
• Reflect on your inspiration and goals in social work.
• Analyze the potential effect of social workers on social policy development
• Describe a social policy advocacy goal.
• This week’s final assignment includes a discussion post due by Wednesday Chapter 13, Taking Action: Policy Practice for Social Workers (pp. 285306)
• Chapter 13, Conclusion (pp. 307312)

To prepare:

• Review the Learning Resources on the joys of working with adolescents.
• Research a recent (within the past year) media story about adolescents making a positive difference in their communities.
• Think about how often adolescence is described in society using negative terms and consider how social workers could use their knowledge to flip the script to promote a positive narrative about the joys and opportunities of this time period.

Post:

• Briefly describe your selected media story and the impact that the adolescents have had on their community.
• Describe how the work of the teens in your story demonstrates resiliency in this generation of adolescents.
• Explain what social workers can learn from the adolescents featured in your story and from their generation at large.
• Laser, J. A., & Nicotera, N. (2021). Working with adolescents: A guide for practitioners (2nd ed.). The Guilford Press.
• Chapter 18, The Joys of Working with Adolescents (pp. 297306)
• Kranke, D. (2019).
• . Advances in Social Work, 19(2), 369382. https://doi.org/10.18060/22535
• McCullough, A., Jr., Morrell, F., Jr., Thomas, B., III, Waugh, V., Shubert, N., & Donofrio, A. (2020).
• . Harvard Educational Review, 90(2), 195228. https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-90.2.195
• Sinclair, K. A., Rodriguez, S., & Monreal, T. P. (2023).
• . International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 36(3), 392410. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2022.2025488

Within 1-2 sentences, develop a values statement that reflects your personal values and beliefs for your life. Next, select a news article (from a reputable source, i.e., Associated Press) from the past year related to a social problem of interest to you. You will rationally explain the social problems connection to social work. Add the article that you chose for your paper on your reference list or 20% will be taken off this assignment. Write a 5-page paper, excluding title and reference pages, in which you explore your own personal value system, the social problem, and how it fits with National Association of Social Workers (NASW) values and ethics. Upload the paper via Turnitin in Canvas. The paper should address the following:

Present your values statement with a description of your core values (1 page)

Where/how did you learn these values? What are some of the life messages that your parents, grandparents or other caregivers shared with you? What are some of the life messages shared in? How can these messages direct you in social work practice? (less than 1 page)

In what areas do your values agree with the National Association Social Workers (NASW) values (see NASW Code of Ethics: Ethical Principles)? (1 page)

In what areas do your values diverge from social work values? (1 page)

Summarize the social problem from your selected article (less than 1 page). What population is impacted by this problem? What are the main issues experienced by those impacted by this problem?

How do your core values impact your ability to work with the population identified as impacted by the social problem ? (less than 1 page)

How might any areas of difference between your values and social work values affect your ability to practice social work? (less than 1 page)

Select 2

-3 articles (no older than 5 years) that identify a potential ethical dilemma impacting schools today and use the decision-making process model to expound on:

professional responsibility,

analysis of the dilemma,

whom you would seek consultation from (admin., supervisor, community etc.) and

why, course of action and your reflection of how this dilemma challenges your professional values

(reference professional values on pg. 38) and personal values.

WILL UPLOAD PG.38 SOON

Post your initial response to the following: After learning about Stephanie, imagine that you had been the school social worker at the time of her suicidal ideation. Which indicators would you have looked for in Stephanie and why? How would you have responded to each of those indicators? What kinds of questions would you have asked her and why? Please use the Learning Resources to support your response. Increased stress and anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, a history of trauma, and lack of social support can all put adolescents at increased risk for suicide. These are largely internal risk factors, hidden from others. How might they manifest as warning signs observable by others? Social workersparticularly those in schoolsare poised to notice these warning signs. For this Discussion, you consider observable actions or demeanors that indicate suicidal ideation in adolescents. First, you watch a video of Stephanie Parker, who is an adult talking about her experience attempting suicide as a teen. Then, you imagine how you would have responded to Stephanie as the school social worker at the time. Singer, J. B., OBrien, K. H., & LeCloux, M. (2017). Three psychotherapies for suicidal adolescents: Overview of conceptual frameworks and intervention techniques. Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal , 34 , 95106. Udoetuk, S., Idicula, S., Jabbar, Q., & Shah, A. A. (2019). Suicide in adolescents. Psychiatric Annals, 49 (6), 269272. National Alliance on Mental Illness. (n.d.-a). Risk of suicide .

TO PREPARE Review your research proposal. While doing so, consider one thing you learned that would be helpful to your social work colleagues. This could relate to the literature you read on your topic, how you approached the research proposal, or a concept or process you found particularly enlightening. Think critically about your proposed research and how, if the study were conducted, it might inform social work practice. Consider any limitations. By Day 3 Share a key takeaway from your research proposal with your colleagues. Then, explain how your proposed research would inform social work practice. Finally, identify what you perceive as the potential limitations of your proposed study and how you might address those if you were to conduct the study. Please support your response with external sources (i.e., cite and reference). Researchers disseminate their findings formally through a variety of methods. The most common include professional papers, conference sessions, publication in professional, peer-reviewed journals, and dissertations. Researchers can also disseminate their findings informally by networking with colleagues. Both formal and informal methods can create opportunities for practice improvement and social change. In this final Discussion, you share your research informally by identifying a key idea or piece of information from your research proposal. You also connect your study to social work practice, and identify any limitations that might exist. Required Readings Yegidis, B. L., Weinbach, R. W., & Myers, L. L. (2018). Research methods for social workers (8th ed.). Pearson. Chapter 14: Writing the Research Report and Disseminating Research Findings (pp. 313-329) OASIS. (n.d.). Critical reading for analysis and comparison. Walden University. Required Media Walden University, LLC. (2021). Research and social change [Video]. Walden University Blackboard. Time Estimate: 2 minutes

Within 1-2 sentences, develop a values statement that reflects your personal values and beliefs for your life. Next, select a news article (from a reputable source, i.e., Associated Press) from the past year related to a social problem of interest to you. You will rationally explain the social problems connection to social work. Add the article that you chose for your paper on your reference list or 20% will be taken off this assignment. Write a 5-page paper, excluding title and reference pages, in which you explore your own personal value system, the social problem, and how it fits with National Association of Social Workers (NASW) values and ethics. Upload the paper via Turnitin in Canvas. The paper should address the following:

Present your values statement with a description of your core values (1 page)

Where/how did you learn these values? What are some of the life messages that your parents, grandparents or other caregivers shared with you? What are some of the life messages shared in? How can these messages direct you in social work practice? (less than 1 page)

In what areas do your values agree with the National Association Social Workers (NASW) values (see NASW Code of Ethics: Ethical Principles)? (1 page)

In what areas do your values diverge from social work values? (1 page)

Summarize the social problem from your selected article (less than 1 page). What population is impacted by this problem? What are the main issues experienced by those impacted by this problem?

How do your core values impact your ability to work with the population identified as impacted by the social problem ? (less than 1 page)

How might any areas of difference between your values and social work values affect your ability to practice social work? (less than 1 page)