socw lab project
Goals:
- Apply knowledge from residency to a social problem
- Reflect and integrate residency material
- Demonstrate key practice behaviors in a presentation
Assignment:
During the on-ground, residency portion of the Skills Lab I, you will have attended sessions covering topics relevant to generalist practice in social work. For this cumulative assignment, you join with a group of three to four students to create a presentation addressing a social problem from a generalist social work perspective. During the presentation, you and each group member are expected to demonstrate foundation-level practice skills.
The presentation will be focused by each group on a relevant social issue chosen from one of the following broad topics below:
“Youth violence in black population”
As part of the Final Project, you develop a PowerPoint presentation that includes key learnings from the residency experience. The presentation should include the following:
- Identification of the social problem with research supporting the background presented.
You must demonstrate that this social problem exists by communicating the number of those impacted and the impact on disenfranchised groups.
Include considerations of diversity and cultural awareness.
It is expected that research and supported data will be presented from appropriate sources (e.g., peer-reviewed studies or government websites). - Discussion on how the social problem impacts society on all practice levels (micro, mezzo, and macro). Be sure to integrate evidence-based social work practice, research, and policy.
- Identification of how social workers can ameliorate or mitigate the social problem using social work skills. (Hint: Think about the generalist intervention model.) In the final presentation, you should include evidence-based practices (EBPs) and specific policy implications for your identified social problems. Make sure to provide citations and sources of support (specific journal articles) that support your choices.