Social Work Advocacy Flashcards
(13 cards)
What is a core aspect of the Social Work Profession?
Advocating the rights of society’s most vulnerable members.
What are 4 ways that Social Workers advocate for change?
Writing op-ed pieces, lobbying, organizing local protests, and helping change laws that affect vulnerable and disadvantaged members of society
What’s community organizing?
It’s work that social workers do to engage with groups, orgs, and communities in order to bring positive change in a community and solve social problems identified by members of the community
What are the 7 steps of community organizing?
- Integrate into the community
- Identify the issue impacting the community
- Identify individuals and create core groups
- Set goals and objectives
- Create an action plan to meet goals
- Execute and monitor the action plan
- Evaluate the effect of the action plan on the stated goal
What is lobbying?
The process of influencing public policy
What are two key things lobbyists do?
They engage in discussions with legislators to gain their support for a bill
They bring types summaries of issues identified by interest groups and review key points with legislators
What is a coalition?
A coalition is a group of people or organizations who share a common interest and work collaboratively to achieve a shared goal
True or false: coalitions part ways after achieving their goals
False: they can become permanent organizations of their own
What are the two types of coalitions?
Internal and external
What’s an internal coalition?
They work within a specific organization to achieve a goal
What’s an example of an internal coalition?
A trade union created to represent employees and advocate for benefits, wages etc.
What does an external coalition do?
An external coalition works with multiple organizations to achieve a common goal
What’s an example an external coalition works?
An external coalition is a number of groups, unions or nonprofits who come together to form a group “Coalition to Stop Gun Violence”
