SW 3602 - Social Welfare Policy

• Analyze social welfare issues at the federal, state, and local levels; identify and critique policy development, planning, administrative, financial, and programmatic interventions at all levels that address social problems
• Demonstrate generalist, strength-based policy skills through their written application to influence, formulate, and advocate for social welfare policies consistent with social work economic, political, and human service systems.
• Demonstrate knowledge of major social welfare areas that form the foundation of social welfare (health care, mental health, substance abuse, criminal justice, child welfare, aging, housing, and food).
• Explain how patterns of discrimination and injustice in the U.S. deferentially impact the way in which social welfare policies affect oppressed and disadvantaged populations.
• Explain how values, ideologies, and empirical research influence the development of social welfare policy, and identify your own values, attitudes, and perspectives with respect to social welfare policy
• Explain the role of social welfare policies on social work practice, individual and social well being, and on planning and implementation of service delivery.
• Explain the social, biological, psychological, economic, environmental, political, and philosophical perspectives of social work.
• Identify how social work ethics impact social work policy analysis and practice.