SOCW 6520: Social Work Field Education III

Please note that this is a master level course so master level work. Please check the grammar and you have to use the reading that I have provided to you. You must answer all the questions that I post. Thank you.

Georgia MENTOR

Metro Atlanta Children’s Services
2302 Parklake Drive NE, Suite 200
Atlanta, GA 30345

Brief Description of Agency-GA Mentor is a therapeutic foster care agency that provides therapeutic foster care services to youth between the ages of 0-18. We offer evidence-informed training to foster parents to provide quality homes for foster children. Services offered to children include 24 hours of home-based monitoring, therapeutic intervention, and access to community-based services, life skill development, and medication management oversight. GA Mentor ensures that the educational, mental health, physical health, and overall well-being needs of all children in our program are met.

2. I will be completing the following tasks:

-Completion of Risk Assessments and Crisis Assessment to determine the level of the client’s needs and services

-Demonstrate her ability to apply Family-Centered Practice, Systems Theory, and Strengths Perspective when assessing the challenges of the family

-Develop and implement Treatment Plans for client

-Train and develop foster parents in providing therapeutic foster care to foster care children

-Evaluate state and Federal Policies in Child Welfare

-Demonstrate her ability to link the family to resources with consideration to the family’s culture, social-economic status, etc.

Week 5

Social Work Values and Ethics

Readings

• Birkenmaier, J., & Berg-Weger, M. (2018). The practicum companion for social work: Integrating class and fieldwork (4th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.

o Chapter 8, “Social Work Practice in the Field: Working with Organizations, Communities, and Policy” (pp. 186- 206

Media

• Laureate Education (Producer). (2013d). Organizational policy [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 1 minute.

Assignment 2

Policy identification

To prepare: Working with your field instructor, identify a social problem that is common among the organization (or its clients) and research current policies at that state and federal levels that impact the social problem. Then, from a position of advocacy, identify methods to address the social problem (i.e., how you, as a social worker, and the agency advocate to change the problem). You are expected to specifically address how both you and the agency can effectively engage policymakers to make them aware of the social problem and the impact that the policies have on the agency and clients.

The Assignment (2-3 pages):

• Identify the social problem

• Explain rational for selecting social problem

• Describe state and federal policies that impact the social problem

• Identify specific methods to address the social problems

• Explain how the agency and student can advocate to change the social problem

Leadership in a Multinational Organization

Select a multinational firm of non-US origin.  Do not use the same company selected for your course project and make sure your selection does not duplicate your classmates’ selections. Then, for your initial post, respond to your reservation post by addressing the following items:

• Provide an overview of the organization and include the firm’s strategy.
• Which leadership style has been associated with the organization’s CEO or top official?  You may use a former CEO if you find more information on that person.
• Is the leadership style appropriate for the cultural environment of the firm?  Identify any skills that the CEO possesses and any that need to be developed.
• Defend the leadership style you would use if you were appointed CEO of the organization.

Your final for the course will consist of writing an essay over any topic from the course. The essay should be a minimum of 3000 words. You should have at least 8 scholarly resources*. You may use more than 8, for example, a website or government information, as well. The essay should be completed in a 12 point font with 1 inch margins and be doubled spaced. You may use any style manual you are comfortable with (MLA, APA, etc.) 

As stated above, the essay can be over any topic in the course; however, if you find a topic relating to domestic violence that was not covered, you may contact me for approval of the topic. You may also use any of the discussion posts questions, videos, articles, etc. 

*A scholarly publication is one in which the content is written by experts in a particular field of study – generally for the purpose of sharing original research or analyzing others’ findings. Scholarly work will thoroughly cite all source materials used and is usually subject to “peer review” prior to publication. Please do not use Wikipedia or Encyclopedia definitions as a source.

Writing about one’s personal experience encourages self-reflection and improves self-awareness. In this activity students are invited to reflect, in writing, on their experiences related to managing clinical risks for patients. Students to write about an event they observed or were involved in during their nursing profession that they feel might have placed a patient at risk. Alternatively, students may want to write about an event that occurred to them as recipients of healthcare, or as an observer to their friends’ or family members’ experiences. The event may be one that they feel related to any of anticipation, recognition, or management of a patient safety risk. Safe patient care and reducing medical-legal risk requires nurse practitioners to be aware of potential risks and how to avoid them.

The narrative should include:

• a description of the event
• an explanation of how this event placed a patient at risk
• the student’s reflections on the event including:
• if and how the event was recognized
• why and how the event occurred, for example, was the event due to
  • action or inaction by an individual healthcare provider
  • system failure(s)
  • a combination of systems failure(s) and individual provider performance issues
• what changes or improvements they would make, if any
• how they felt at the time
• how they currently feel about the even
• Were you personally involved in the event? Discuss.
• What, if any, workplace factors contributed to the event? (e.g., Was it during a handover? Did it involve a medication?)
• How aware was the healthcare provider(s) of what was going on around them? (situational awareness)
• How did the health care provider(s) recognize the safety problem, and how did they respond?
• How did this event affect you?
• What did you take away that you will use in the future?
• I would do something differently next time because 

Assignment Requirements:

Before finalizing your work, you should:

• be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above);
• consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and
• utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.

Your writingAssignment should:

• follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);
• be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
• display superior content, organization, style; and
• use APA 6th Edition format as outlined in the APA Progression Ladder.

Please consider how you have developed the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable your achievement of the Course Goals listed in the syllabus.  Make sure you list out each course goal and answer them by tell how what you learned.  In addition, do not write a report on what was in each module, this is not a reflection  Its critical that this is done correctly.

Please consider how you have developed the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable your achievement of the Course Goals listed in the syllabus. Then write a minimum of a 1000 word APA-style essay reflecting on how this course has helped you achieve these goals. 

McGonigle, D. & Mastrian, K. (2017). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (4th ed.). Boston: Jones & Bartlett. 

 Using the same organization selected in Week 1 for the course project, address the following:

• Summarize the key product/service offered by your organization,  including the role of the customer service department or direct service  required to make a sale to the customer.
• Create and defend a diagram or flowchart detailing the service  delivery process. The chart should clearly identify each contact point  (e.g. frontline employee, supervisor, delivery, etc.) before, during,  and after the purchase. Your defense of the diagram should detail the  role of each contact and assess why each role is critical to the entire  service delivery process. (For assistance, review Service Delivery  lecture tab and click here for a Service Delivery Infographic).
• Analyze at least three possible contact point failures in the  service delivery process for your organization. Why do you consider  these to be possible contact point failures?
• Justify recommendations to prevent or address the potential contact  point failures and enhance service delivery in your organization. Be  sure to consider how customers will benefit by your recommendations.
• Defend a statement positioning the brand around the new/improved services.

Submission Details:

• Submit your answers in a 6- to 9-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.(This should be an expansion of the 2 previous papers already written and be 100% original and no plagiarism.)