What is the history of this particular problem? When was it first identified? How has it been viewed historically? What specific human rights are impacted by this problem? Discuss the values and interests that have influenced the perception of the problem.

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Social Issue/Problem and Policy Identification

This assignment involves your analysis of a policy developed to address a social problem or issue. It has you discuss the values that are involved in the policy and its relationship to human rights as well as its effectiveness in addressing the specific problem.
In selecting a policy, you can take any local, state, or federal policy and use any issue. As an example, if you are interested in domestic violence or human trafficking, search for specific policies that relate to these problems. You are asked to discuss the problems and how well the policy addresses it.
Be a little creative in your searches and a little flexible in the policy you choose. Always easier to start your career with a policy where there is easily accessible information.
Papers are to be 7-8 pages and use APA style. Papers must be double spaced. Points will be deducted for spelling and grammatical errors. References are required and must not include the required readings for the class. Papers are due at the last class.

A) Introduction (2-3 sentences) of what you are going to discuss and why (5 points)

B) Issue/ Problem overview
Identify a social issue/problem
How many are affected? What specific groups are impacted?
What are the effects of the problem/issue?
What is the present perspective on this problem?

C) History of social issue/problem
What is the history of this particular problem? When was it first identified? How has it been viewed historically?
What specific human rights are impacted by this problem?
Discuss the values and interests (economic, political, cultural) that have influenced the perception of the problem.
How have these perspectives changed and what might have caused these changes?
What groups have been influential in the response to the problem?
How has social work responded to the problem?

D) Policy Dealing with Issue
What are the goals of the policy with regards to this problem?
How does the present policy view eligibility? What benefits are offered? Are benefits sufficient to meet needs?
What gaps do you see in the current policy?
How does the policy respond to the oppression of specific groups?
Are there any unintended consequences of the policy?

E) Outcomes/impact of policy
What have been the outcomes?
How does the policy relate to human rights….is it supportive or unsupportive? Explain your view.
How is the policy funded? Are funds sufficient to make it effective?
Overall, how effective is the policy in solving the specific social problem?

(in terms of sources there is no number, as long as every statement comes from a source and that source is indicated)

Speculate on the future of childhood and what it means for the concept of legal and social responsibility of children for the coming 50 years.

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A History Of Childhood Book Review

This paper is to be no less than 5 and no greater than 10 typewriter pages (3000 word max–300 words per page; 1 inch margins; Times New Roman font). You are to read the book A History of Childhood in the entirety before accomplishing the assignment.

Your task for this paper is to speculate on the future of childhood and what it means for the concept of legal and social responsibility of children for the coming 50 years. You may rely only on your personal observations, the textbook for this course and A History of Childhood to accomplish this. Your paper should be organized into themes and use subtitles to organize those themes. For example, themes might be Changing Notions of Juvenile Responsibility or Extending Bio-social Explanations and the Future of Childhood. Each section of the paper should begin with a very brief summary of the historical context or flow of history as it pertains to your argument. Where possible, use A History of Childhood. It might help to imagine that you are writing an afterword for that book.

Identify an instance or situation in which artistic expression has been used in support social justice advocacy.

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Identify an instance or situation in which artistic expression has been used in support social justice advocacy.

Your example should include some aspect of “out-group” advocacy, i.e., individuals who do not self-identify (based on their social location) with the group for whom their artistic expressions advocate social justice (e.g., the earlier example of Andy Murray speaking up in support of the Williams sisters).

In other words, the individual/organization using social justice artistic expression would be an ‘ally’ or ‘co-conspirator’, rather than a member of the group for which social justice is advocated.

Given the prolific usage of social media in 21st-century social justice activism, you have a lot of media from which to identify your example.

Upon identifying your example, provide a 250-300 word analysis of how it relates to the concepts of social justice arts explored in this course, including your interpretation of its effectiveness in achieving progress for the cause, and lessons

What are the historical antecedents to the policy? How has our nation’s policy response to the social issue developed or changed over time?

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Part II – Due Week 14

This section should be 8-10 pages in length, well researched, and clearly written. Sources should include primary sources of information, peer reviewed literature, and should be mainly recent (from 2010-present). The sections outlined below are required. Be sure to provide them in the order listed below.
What are the historical antecedents to the policy?
How has our nation’s policy response to the social issue developed or changed over time?
How our nation had identified to our social issue, how has our nation responded to…ex.(mental health=prison)
What are the similar policies in other states or nations?
How did different nations or states handle the issue. Pick one- states or nations.
What corresponding and/or interacting policies that exist at the federal, state or local levels?
Any level ,federal, state
Is the passing of this going to correspond with any other laws or policies that exist
The Policy Itself
What are the values and ideology involved with the social issue and policy response?
What should be, what shouldn’t be, what ought to be,
Theres a social issue and then there is a bill
There’s a social issue- the ideology beliefs system and then we social issues ( environment should someone go to jail for being forced to live somewhere?)

Might say in the bill (this is overseen by the department of …..)

Implementation
What agency will administer the policy/program?

Costs: What are the costs (financial and non-material) and what are the benefits (financial and non-material)? If funding is provided in the bill, is the funding adequate?
How does this cost our society, how does it impact our society
Time Frame: If passed, when will the bill be implemented?
This is when it takes action, this is when it comes a law. When passed the law will become implemented if it does not have a time in the bill
Program Evaluation: How will/could/should the program’s efficacy be evaluated in the future?
How will, could, or should,
What would you look at to seee if the bill was actually creating change or not

Policy Advocacy Strategies
What are the supporting and restraining forces for this policy?
Support it getting passed and aganist it getting passsed
What groups are concerned about this policy? Identify supporters and opponents, as well their activities in regard to this proposed policy?
Who should be concerned about the bill but is not (ex. Maybe a bill about kids rights and teachers are not looking at it)
What groups SHOULD be concerned about this policy but are not? Why should they be involved? Why do you think they are NOT involved? What could/should they do?

What did you do to advocate for/against this policy?
Each student is expected to write a letter to at least two policymakers expressing the student’s position on the policy AND SEND IT. Include the letter in your appendices.
What more could/should you do to advocate for your position?
Write 2 letters, to who, why did you write them
Attachments/Appendices

Social Policy (Bill) Part II
Criteria
Historical antecedents to the policy
How has our nation’s policy response to the social issue? What are the similar policies in other states or nations? What corresponding and/or interacting policies that exist at the federal, state or local levels?
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
The Policy Itself
What are the values and ideology involved with the social issue and policy response?

Implementation
What agency will administer the policy/program Costs: What are the costs (financial and non-material) and what are the benefits (financial and non-material)? If funding is provided in the bill, is the funding adequate? Time Frame: If passed, when will the bill be implemented? Program Evaluation: How will/could/should the program’s efficacy be evaluated in the future?

This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome

Policy Advocacy Strategies
What are the supporting and restraining forces for this policy? What groups are concerned about this policy? Identify supporters and opponents, as well their activities in regard to this proposed policy? What groups SHOULD be concerned about this policy but are not? Why should they be involved? Why do you think they are NOT involved? What could/should they do? What did you do to advocate for/against this policy? What more could/should you do to advocate for your position?

Discuss a social issue that you feel deeply about. Describe how you would contribute to the solution.

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Social issue

ESSAY QUESTION: Discuss a social issue that you feel deeply about. Describe how you would contribute to the solution.

Do you agree or disagree with the Joint Commission on Mental Illness’s report in 1961 criticizing warehousing mental patients? Do you agree or disagree with the federal legislation that President John F. Kennedy signed mandating local community care facilities for the mentally ill? Explain

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Deinstitutionalization

Extra Credit Written Assignment
Social Deviance
Chapter 11 – Mental Disorder
Extra Credit Written Assignment – up to 10 pts.

Read pg. 317-318 Deinstitutionalization

A. Do you agree or disagree with the Joint Commission on Mental Illness’s report in 1961 criticizing warehousing mental patients? Explain

B. Do you agree or disagree with the federal legislation that President John F. Kennedy signed mandating local community care facilities for the mentally ill? Explain

C. What suggestions can you make to help change the outcome of the mentally ill which was reported by the Treatment Advocacy Center in 2010, i.e. the mentally disordered who are in jails and prisons.

D. Are you familiar with community care facilities in your community that help the mentally ill and do you think these facilities are beneficial? Explain.

E. Do you think the use of psychotropic drugs since the 1950’s has been a positive force for the mentally ill? Explain why or why not.

Write a 800-1000 word CITED commentary in which you critically analyze how theories related racism and gender-discrimination are reflected in your source film.

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Activity 3

Summary:
•Step 1: Watch a documentary that discusses gender & racism/culture
My suggestions: TBD

Step 2: Write a 800-1000 word CITED commentary in which you critically analyze how theories related racism and gender-discrimination are reflected in your source film.

• You are drawing on the content from chapters 8 and 9.
• Citations from both film (time stamps) and text are mandatory (No citations = 0%)
•Theories need to be specific at this point: commodification, intersectionality, patriarchy, institutions, structural factors etc…

Do a privilege checklist from under Week 5 activities. Write 200 words reflecting on whether you think the privilege checklist accurately captures your level of privilege.

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Class Activity

Summary:
•Step 1. Do a privilege checklist from under Week 5 activities. Write 200 words reflecting on whether you think the privilege checklist accurately captures your level of privilege. As part of this, make sure you are discussing your social identity groups from week 2-3. This will be first person voice. Define your terms using cited definitions from the textbook. 30 marks.

•Step 2 (Choice 1). Read though some of the comments from the comments section on your checklist! Select 3 comments for closer analysis (need to select ones that fit the assignment). Screenshot them and paste them into your document/or write out the words. For each of the three comments, which of the elements of Internal and Attitudinal Dimensions of Privilege (from slides or textbook) are present and explain why? This should be at least 100 words per answer. 30 marks.

•Step 2 (Choice 2). Read through this Twitter thread on the reservation system in education in India: https://twitter.com/sankul333/status/1421011518104080385. Select 3 comments for closer analysis (need to select ones that fit the assignment). Screenshot them and paste them into your document/or write out the words. For each of the three comments said in RESPONSE to the original thread, which of the elements of Internal and Attitudinal Dimensions of Privilege (from slides or textbook) are present and explain why? This should be at least 100 words per answer. 30 marks.

•Step 3: Write a minimum of a 400-word commentary (excluding title page and references) explaining the relationship between oppression and privilege. You need to include at least 2 direct quotes. For example, Sensoy and DiAngelo(2017) discuss that “direct words said from the textbook” (p. 67). And I mean from the textbook, not a random Internet source. If you do not use the identified appropriate academic source(s), you will be required to re-submit for points. 40 marks.

Using similar examples from your own explorations of the subject, discuss how changes in the methods of production influenced class-based social justice artistic expression from the 20th into the 21st century.

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Module 5 Discussion

First, read the following excerpt from Sholette, Gregory, and Kim Charnley. Delirium and Resistance: Activist art and the crisis of capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2017.

…dizzying contradictions …have come to define contemporary art in the era of neoliberal capitalism. This includes rocketing prices that some artworks command in the global market, but also the rising tide of artistic activism focused on social injustice (including seeking fair economic compensation for art workers themselves).

…these materializing conflicts are amplified when artists focus their practice beyond artistic concerns to address social and political concerns in the “real world.” … how can a truly critical and politically resistant artistic culture be possible when art is becoming entangled and perhaps even subsumed within capitalist forms of production, marketing and financialization?

If an essential feature of artistic practice has been its centuries-old autonomy (whether real or imagined) from worldly economic and political matters, then art’s increasingly far-reaching and radical complicity with capital generates not only a dilemma, it forms a virtual ontological state of contradiction for all artistic practices. … this problem is especially vexing for those modes of contemporary art that self-identify as socially engaged, interventionist, or activist in nature.

… For while all art encounters the contradiction of its own entrepreneurial marketization that follows and disciplines the artist herself from classroom to exhibition space and beyond, the committed activist artist must also contend with the paradox of producing work that is always already caught up in a system it openly opposes and deplores.

Instructions for this Discussion

For this discussion, using similar examples from your own explorations of the subject, discuss how changes in the methods of production influenced class-based social justice artistic expression from the 20th into the 21st century.

 

Be sure to address Sholette and Charnley’s concerns regarding “commodification” to address whether these influences strengthened or weakened the impact social justice arts have as a form of class-based critique.

Write an abbreviated Subject and Topic assignment for your research assignment that is forthcoming. Select an area of interest, related to the present course’s subject matter.

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Social Welfare Policy WEEK 8: SUBJECT-TOPIC RESEARCH PROPOSAL

For this week, the student will write an abbreviated Subject and Topic assignment for his or her research assignment that is forthcoming.

First, the student will have to select an area of interest, related to the present course’s subject matter.

Next, the student should go to: Resources; select one of the databases and after clicking on the database, enter some key words related to the area of interest (e.g., shipwrecks in the North Atlantic)
Examine the academic peer reviewed, academic articles. DO NOT USE NEWSPAPERS OR BOOK REVIEWS, they must be academic articles.

Select one article and read that for background information
Write the APA 7th ed. citation for the article
Write one sentence, the Subject
Sentence two is the topic