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Assignment:
You must show how you can combine learning in the classroom and learning in the field for this task. You will need to use the traits, values, and skills you have learned since the start of your BSW classes to do this. An in-depth analysis of an internship-based practice experience is at the heart of this task.
More focus on Mezzo work
Reply to each of these questions:
1. Describe how the client system works in a Housing Family service.
2. Identify the social policies at the local (e.g., city (Everett, MA, country (USA), agency, or organization), state, and/or federal level that currently impact the lives of the client/client systems (Housing, legal services, Youth & Family, Legal Services & Mental health, and Wellness). There should be at least one strategy at each of the three levels. Explain how these rules affected your client/client system and whether the experiences were good, bad, or neutral. What do you think you or your organization should do to push for changes in federal, state, and/or local policies that promote social justice?
3. Pick a theory that will help you understand the client system better. Find the good and bad things about this client system by applying this theory point of view to it.
4. Talk about how you will get involved, evaluate, and help people, and then think about your job as a future social worker.
To begin, use the generalist planned change model to explain how you will interact with the client system you are working with. This should include how you will interact with individuals, families/groups, organizations, and communities.
a. Assessment: Talk about how you use different theoretical views to help guide and inform the assessment process with your client system. Talk about how the theoretical perspective(s) affect the evaluation of the client system in terms of relationships, needs, and strengths between Migrant Caribbean families and groups, organizations, and the community.
b. Intervention: Talk about the intervention you used with the client system(s) by explaining the method, tool, or approach you used to solve the problem or meet the nee. For example: cultural humility. Talk about how this intervention affects different levels of social work practice, such as with people, families/groups, organizations, and communities.
c. Evaluations: Talk about how you plan to critically assess how well your solutions work at the mezzo level.
5. Describe an ethical dilemma and the ethical standards and processes you used to learn more about how to: (1) tell the difference between your personal and professional values; (2) think about different ways to solve the dilemma; and (3) make an ethical decision with client systems. Follow the NASW Code of Ethics.
Explain how clients' and their client systems' intersecting identities, experiences with privilege, abuse, and power, and access to resources have shaped their lives and the way they work with you now. Explain how your mixed identities and experiences with power, privilege, and abuse affect how you understand and work with client/client systems.