Social Work Advocacy Assignment

Social Work Advocacy Assignment

Social Work Advocacy Assignment

Respond to at least two colleagues by offering a suggestion for how your colleague might gain political and/or lobbying experience for the political issue your colleagues described.

·      Also, explain the steps you might take to incorporate policy advocacy in your practice based on insights, experiences, and/or opinions your colleagues described.
·      Be sure your explanation takes the perspective of a social work professional with a responsibility to uphold professional ethics.

Support your response with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

Social Work Advocacy Assignment

Colleague 1: Jesse

The role a social worker lobbying and campaigning is to advocate for our clients. The NASW talks about how social workers can aid our society by writing policy changes, lobbying, organizing agency and community events, and helping make changes to laws for disadvantaged members of society (NASW, n.d). Our passion is to be a voice for those who feel unheard or unrepresented. We stand up for those who face inequalities. Social workers that are elected officials have the opportunity to make powerful and positive changes. They are able to bring new light and new views to policies and laws that might need revising or changes. I feel as though I have learned a lot from my colleagues in this class. They have shown me a lot of different aspects and thought processes. This class as allowed me to see other point of views and broaden my way of viewing situations.

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Colleague 2: Lisa

Hello Everyone,

The role of lobbying and campaigning in social work practice is necessary, and is a form ofadvocacy for marginalized and oppressed groups of people. “Lobbying is simply the purposive, goal directed, planned process of attempting to influence the position of a decision maker usually an elected one”, (Popple & Leighninger, 2015). I strongly believe that social workers might have a powerful and positive effect as elected officials because they know how to advocate for marginalized groups of people, they research issues that affect people, they plan and set goals before implementing them, and they know where and how to get the resources that people need. “Social workers are powerful as elected officials in charting the way forward on particular issues of concerns, particularly those affecting disadvantaged groups”, (Rome, Harris &  Hoechstetter, 2010). The experiences and opinions of my colleagues have had an impact on my won experiences and opinions in many ways. Sometimes listening to another persons point of view can either make you stick to your own opinions, or in some cases change the way you think about a particular issue. This will also happen on our jobs as well. Social workers should ask colleagues their opinions when faced with difficult situations and sometimes just to see if you are on the right track to handeling a situation.