Advanced Social Issues Project
Assignment Overview
The Advanced Social Issues course project is the culminating assignment for your final Advanced Field Practicum course. This project demonstrates your research, application, and synthesis of the chosen social issue, agency need, or client or community problem. This is the last component of the project, where you will synthesize and self-reflect on your experience in the practicums.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAS and specialized practices:
Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
C1.SP.A: Apply professional use of self and leadership skills with colleagues, clients, groups, organizations, and communities.
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6. Discuss how a project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights, and advances social work practice.
Competency 2: Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice.
C2.SP.A: Analyze dimensions and differentiation in diversity and apply the influence of relationships and affective reactions to intervention techniques and technologies with diverse clients, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
C2.SP.B: Apply leadership skills, theoretical frameworks, decision making and best-practice interventions with diverse populations.
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6. Discuss how a project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights, and advances social work practice.
Competency 3: Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice.
C3.SP.A: Apply leadership skills, decision making and technology to engage in collaborative practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to advocate for appropriate services, resources and supports to achieve goals and foster positive change.
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6. Discuss how a project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights, and advances social work practice.
Competency 4: Engage In Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice.
C4.SP.A: Apply leadership skills, decision making and the use of technology to inform evidence-based research practice to develop, implement, evaluate, and communicate interventions across the specialization of advanced generalist practice settings.
C4.SP.B: Apply leadership skills, decision making and the use of technology to inform program evaluation to develop, implement, evaluate, and communicate interventions across the specialization of advanced generalist practice settings.
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5. Demonstrate leadership through offering evidence-based recommendations to promote a project’s intervention or plan.
Competency 5: Engage in Policy Practice.
C5.SP.A: Apply leadership skills and decision making as social change agents to collaborate with clients, colleagues, and identified stakeholders to advance social and economic well-being in the delivery of effective and technology-assisted social work services to individuals, families, and groups.
C5.SP.B: Apply leadership skills and decision making as social change agents to collaborate with clients, colleagues, and identified stakeholders to advance social and economic well-being in the delivery of effective and technology-assisted social work services to organizations and communities.
Related Assignment Criteria:
6. Discuss how a project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights, and advances social work practice.
Competency 6: Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C6.SP.A: Apply critical thinking and decision making in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology when engaging with colleagues, individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
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6. Discuss how a project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights, and advances social work practice.
C6.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice when engaging with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
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2. Apply a theory to intervene and address a problem.
C6.SP.D: (Engage) Apply leadership, technology, critical thinking, decision making and interpersonal skills to actively engage in the specialization of advanced generalist practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to achieve goals.
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5. Demonstrate leadership through offering evidence-based recommendations to promote a project’s intervention or plan.
6. Discuss how a project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights, and advances social work practice.
Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C7.SP.A: Apply critical thinking and decision making in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology when assessing colleagues, individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
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6. Discuss how a project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights, and advances social work practice.
C7.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice when assessing individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
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2. Apply a theory to intervene and address a problem.
C7.SP.D: (Assess) Apply assessment instruments, leadership, technology, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills to identify problems, and assess and analyze capacities, strengths, and needs of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
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1. Analyze the background of a social issue, agency need, or client or community problem, and its impact on the agency, client, client system, or community.
3. Explain implementation procedures applied to address a problem.
5. Demonstrate leadership through offering evidence-based recommendations to promote a project’s intervention or plan.
6. Discuss how a project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights, and advances social work practice.
Competency 8: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C8.SP.A: Apply critical thinking and decision making in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology when intervening with colleagues, individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criteria:
6. Discuss how a project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights, and advances social work practice.
C8.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice interventions with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
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2. Apply a theory to intervene and address a problem.
C8.SP.D: (Intervene) Apply leadership, technology, critical thinking, decision making, and interpersonal skills in the specialization of advanced generalist practice interventions with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to achieve goals.
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5. Demonstrate leadership through offering evidence-based recommendations to promote a project’s intervention or plan.
6. Discuss how a project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights, and advances social work practice.
Competency 9: Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C9.SP.A: Apply critical thinking and decision making in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology evaluations with colleagues, individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criteria:
6. Discuss how a project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights, and advances social work practice.
C9.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice evaluation with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criteria:
2. Apply a theory to intervene and address a problem.
C9.SP.D: Apply leadership skills and emerging technologies in the specialization of advanced generalist social work practice when engaging with individuals, families, group, organizations, and communities to promote systemic change towards client sustainability.
Related Assignment Criteria:
6. Discuss how a project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights, and advances social work practice.
C9.SP.E: (Evaluate) Apply leadership, technology, critical thinking, decision making and interpersonal skills in the specialization of advanced generalist practice evaluation of interventions with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
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4. Articulate the specific goals accomplished through a project and how the agency, community, or client benefited from the implementation of the project.
5. Demonstrate leadership through offering evidence-based recommendations to promote a project’s intervention or plan.
6. Discuss how a project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights, and advances social work practice.
Assignment Description
In this assignment, you will synthesize and self-reflect on your experience as an advanced field education intern and offer recommendations for further insight into advanced social work practice in your chosen area of interest. This is the final component of the Advanced Social Issues course project.
Assignment Instructions
Complete the following:
Review, update, and refine your Unit 2, Social Issues Proposal, and Unit 4, Theory and Procedures Presentation, assignments you previously submitted, based on your instructor’s feedback.
Include your Social Issues Proposal from Unit 2 and your Theory and Procedure Presentation from Unit 4 into this unit’s assignment, the Advanced Social Issues Project.
Use the headings in the template as follows. Note: in keeping with APA formatting, outlines should, ideally, begin with Roman numerals for major headings, then Capital letters for subheadings, followed by numbers.
Template With Headings
Title Page
Table of Contents
Abstract
Introduction
Issue/Problem
Describe the project
Analyze the problem (use content from the Social Issues Proposal assignment)
Target Population
Describe the target population(s) (use content from the Social Issues Proposal assignment)
Theory
Discuss the theory applied for the intervention to address the problem (use content from the Theory and Procedures Presentation)
Implementation Procedures
Explain the procedures of implementation (use content from the Theory and Procedures Presentation)
Discuss the resources used to support the project (for example, human capital, funding, use of technology for communication, mailings, and brochures)
Results and Outcomes
Explain the specific goals accomplished through the project and how the agency, community, or client benefited for the implementation of the project
Recommendations
Discuss how the project contributed to the agency, client, or community, and explain how it advances the social work profession
Determine which specific recommendations you would offer to an agency, client, or community to continue to promote your project’s intervention or plan
Explain how your project improves the understanding of diversity and human rights and advances social work practice
Appendix
Attach your current or updated resume in the Appendix
Additional Requirements
The assignment you submit is expected to meet the following requirements:
Headings: It is important to follow the assignment requirements and use the identified headings outlined.
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
Resources: Minimum of seven scholarly cited references.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards.
Length of paper: 15 to 20 double-spaced pages, not including the Title, Table of Contents, and Reference pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Resources
Advanced Social Issues Project Scoring Guide.
Social Work Masters Library Research Guide.
Evidence and APA.
