Category: Social work

How important is it to know the elements and forms of government of the State?
Explain and support your arguments.
Start with an introduction, include evidence (details and examples) to support your answer, and a conclusion wrapping up your ideas. 
You must submit your writing double-spaced, in Times New Roman, Arial, or Courier New font, with font size 12.
Pay attention to grammatical rules (spelling and syntax).
Your work must be original and must not contain material copied from books or the Internet.
When citing the work of other authors, including citations and references, use the APA style.
Your assignment will be run through Turnitin to check for plagiarism. 
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This week you will complete a report consisting of a narrative at least 500 words in length and a corresponding table. In this report you will examine some of the diverse family structures seen in the United States today and explore the effects of culture (including race and ethnicity) on these family structures.

I have attached a Word document with all the details needed for this paper, please follow it.
I also found 30 sources already and attached them as PDFs. Please use them and you can include more from this if you want.
Thank you!

Answer the following questions using this textbook (Diller, J. V. (2019). Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services (6th ed.). Cengage. ISBN-13: 9781337563383)
1. Instructions: In an essay (500-words), express your opinion of the current racial climate within the United States. You are required to cite a minimum of two academic sources to support your work. Question 1.
2. Instructions: You are encouraged to contact the identified agency, if possible, to gain further understanding of the agency’s cross-cultural work. You are required to cite a minimum of two academic sources to support your work. In an essay (750- words) address the following:
Question 2. (USE SCARLET HEAVEN RESIDENTIAL AS AN AGENCY).
3. Instructions: After reviewing Hays’s ADDRESSING framework in section 3-3 of the textbook, construct an ADDRESSING framework of your own cultural identities or influences via a table or diagram. QUESTION 3.

Imagine that you are a licensed clinical social worker with a specialization in family therapy. You have been working with the Perez family, a Latin American family, for 6 months. The family comprises Jose, the 35-year-old father; Suzanne, the 34-year-old mom; Jack, the eldest son; Kale, the middle child; and Marco, the youngest son. The purpose of the therapy centers on the difference in parenting styles expressed by Jose and Suzanne. Jose subscribes to a hands-on and aggressive form of discipline, while Suzanne believes that discussions and consequences for actions (that is, taking away privileges in the home) is a more modern way to parent their three sons. In a recent family session, Kale shared that the pronoun he did not apply to himself. Kale said, “I am gender non-conforming.”
Based on Kale’s announcement in the session, how would you employ the strategies and training recommendations in this week’s readings to help support the Perez family? As you consider your approach, remember that the parenting style of each parent is markedly different.
Please use the NASW code of ethics
resources within the last 5 years

ASSIGNMENT 3 PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS, 250 POINTS, DUE 24 HOURS BEFORE THE CLASS MEETS IN WEEK 10
This assignment, worth 250 points, helps you to use the evidence you have gathered in the previous assignment to produce a set of practice implications for the practice, treatment, policy, or program you have been investigating. This assignment will help you learn the skills needed to translate the technical body of work you have accumulated in your systematic search assignment into a digestible report meant to summarize your findings to stakeholders, such as clients or community members. You should use the three studies that you identified in Worksheet 4, as well as additional studies you found in your search in this assignment.
You will produce two products for this assignment including (1) a written overview of the practice implications and (2) a visual display of these practice implications (e.g., a brochure, handout, or PowerPoint slide deck) to be shared with your class colleagues on the last day of class.
The visual portion of this assignment is due 72 hours before the class meets in Week 10 so that your colleagues may review your presentation.
The written portion of this assignment is due 24 hours before the class meets in Week 10.
When you save your assignment, the file name should be  “First Name_Last Name_Practice Implications Paper.”

The Jefferson County Family Services Association (JCFSA), a private non-profit organization, has recently been awarded a contract from the State of Lincoln – Division of Mental Health Services to provide clinical case management and related services to patients to be discharged from the Overbridge State Psychiatric Hospital. The State intends to close this 100-year-old facility after placing the majority of its residents in supportive living arrangements in Jefferson and neighboring counties, and placing the remainder, those still determined to require in-patient hospital care, in other State psychiatric hospitals. The intent of the contract is for the JCFSA to provide necessary services to patients discharged to settings in Jefferson County. The types and kinds of services include oversight and follow through on the patient discharge plans, additional care planning and implementation as necessary, individual counseling, medication compliance monitoring and others. The type, scope, content and duration of required services are all set forth in the contract document.
The Executive Director of the JCFSA has hired you to supervise a unit of MSW level social workers to implement the contract. Each of the workers in the unit will carry caseloads consisting exclusively of discharged Overbridge Hospital patients.  You have previously earned an MSW degree and have three years of clinical post-masters experience, two years of which has consisted of working with individuals afflicted with chronic and persistent mental illness. This will be your first professional social work supervisory experience.                                                                                       
You have participated with the Executive Director of the JCFSA in hiring the five MSW level social workers for the new unit as provided for in the State contract. The amount allocated for staff salaries and benefits in the contract, coupled with a relatively “tight” labor market for social workers in the Jefferson County area, has resulted in the hiring of individuals who, for the most part, meet only the minimum requirements for education and experience as set forth in both the State contract and the JCFSA personnel policies. The majority of the workers hired are relatively recent graduates of accredited university MSW programs and only several have any substantive experience serving individuals with chronic and persistent mental illness. The majority of the hired social workers are also new to the Jefferson County area.
Your reading of several of the preliminary discharge plans for patients completed by the Hospital has caused you some trepidation and concern. You worry as to whether or not several of the patients are indeed ready for discharge or if the State is moving too precipitously to achieve its goal of closure of the hospital. You wonder if there is a sufficiency of allied community services necessary for successful patient care such as transportation assistance, day programs, supported employment opportunities, drop in centers and others. Your new workers are clearly energetic and appear dedicated, but you are concerned as to their ability to handle professionally and emotionally the behaviors of the patients as described in the Hospital records and plans. The time has now come to determine your approach and plan for supervision.
PLEASE RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
Identify and justify your priorities for the content of the administrative aspects of supervision you will provide to your workers (6).
Identify and justify your priorities for the content of the educational aspects of supervision you will provide your workers (6).
Identify and justify your priorities for the content of the supportive
aspects of supervision you will provide to your workers (6).
Based on the experience you may encounter in supervision of your unit to
fulfill the terms of this State contact, what information might become vital
for you to communicate to the Executive Director to support your workers
and achieve ultimate success in serving the former patients? (6).
Based on your early trepidation and concern from review of preliminary
discharge plans, what ethical issues may arise in the course of your work?
How would you deal with these? (6).  

The internship is a valuable tool for personal, professional, and civic development. Agencies seek interns to assist in helping them develop into professionals, but agencies also depend on interns to supplement the work that they do. What other effects might the internship experience create? Mallory, Cox, and Panos (2012) studied the impact that BSW interns had on agencies. In this Discussion, you consider the effects that you as an intern and the agency may have on each other.
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Identify two learning goals you expect as an intern.
Identify two expectations that agencies may have for you.
Determine what resources and support you will need to meet the learning goals you identified.

Write 5 thoughtful paragraphs answering the following questions:
Is the USA a patriarchal, matriarchal or gender-egalitarian society?  Why?
Be sure to address gender stratification in the economy, politics, culture, education and family. Write one paragraph for each. A complete list of used-sources must be included after the 5 paragraphs.
Your answers to the questions must be of substantial quality  in order to get points. Substantial quality includes a demonstration that you have completed the required readings and videos and thought critically about them. Your answers must be original, use your own ideas and words. Do not copy from any website or written material from another person. 
Grading criteria:
Student can gain up to 5 points per paragraph written, and 5 points for the bibliography (list of sources consulted).
Each paragraph must address one of the areas: (1)  economy, (2) politics, (3) education, (4) family, and culture. 
Each paragraph must demonstrate that the student completed the required readings and videos. Each paragraph must contain a direct reference or quotation to some of the required readings.
Each paragraph must be original, using student’s own work and ideas.
A minimum of 5 sources must be used and listed. 
A complete list of used-sources must be included after the 5 paragraphs. Sources must be listed using APA (Links to an external site.) or ASA (Links to an external site.) format.
Plagiarism (Links to an external site.)  will result in a grade of 0.
SEEE ATTACHMENT FOR RESOURCES

investigate two potential funding sources for an organization with a mission to reduce recidivism and helps ex-convicts integrate into society in the state of California. Based on the values of 
Dignity, Justice, Equality, change, Unity, Empowerment.
– given its mission, vision, and programming. Your review of funding sources should be 2 pages per
funding source . These funding sources could include, but are not limited to:
foundations or government grants; government contracts; fee for service or product strategy; and/or a
fundraising event or activity.
Review of funding sources should include the following:
• description of each potential funding source,
• information about why it is appropriate
• discussion of challenges associated with securing and maintaining the funds.