There are several practical benefits to the skill of revealing hidden systems and impacts, both intended and unintended, captured within policies. For example, consider how you might use your heightened understanding of the SDGs and their relationships to propose a policy change or innovation within an organization. You might be working with organizational leaders who are not aware of the extent to which the policy in question ripples throughout the organization and community—you can leverage your ability to reveal hidden systems to make seemingly irrelevant issues directly relatable to the policy and the goals of leaders/decision-makers, enacting change that will address additional systems and reduce the unintended consequences of potentially insular policy development. This approach to change and innovation will require individual acts of courage—to challenge the status quo and to present new ways of thinking—and the judicious, intentional use of leadership and management skills, such as those outlined by Brown (2019):
Rumbling with vulnerability
Living into our values
Braving trust
Learning to rise (p. 31)
Brené Brown’s work, a sample of which is captured in her article provided in the Learning Resources this week, is just one illustration of how principles of leadership can be applied to guide organizations and institutions toward timely changes. With her background in social work, Brown brings an empathetic systems approach to her recommendations for leadership and change agents; however, any leadership or management resources that address the interpersonal tactics for effectively broaching, discussing, and applying unfamiliar or sensitive ideas to support actions aligned with common social good (progress toward the SDGs) could apply.
For this Assignment, you search for, select, and provide a review of policies related to the recent SDGs you studied, including:
Goal 5: Gender Equality
Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
By reviewing policies specific to the context of the SDGs, in addition to your weekly Discussions that focus on how SDGs and policy impact nonprofit organizations, you will highlight the relationships between global, interdisciplinary social ecological issues and micro, mezzo, and macro social work practice implications.
Reference:Brown, B. (2019). Dare to lead: Brave work. Tough conversations. Whole hearts. Rotman Management, 28–33.
TO PREPARE:
Click on the United Nations website in the Learning Resources this week and revisit the SDGs from Week 3 and Week 4:Goal 5: Gender Equality
Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
Review the Learning Resources this week.
Identify two public policies, each addressing two of the SDGs above. Be sure to cover each SDG in your policy selections.For example, you might select one policy that addresses Goal 5: Gender Equality and Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, and another policy that addresses Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities.
BY DAY 7
Submit a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:
For both policies you identified:
Provide an overview of the selected policy, including:Problem definition
Goals
Strategies/instruments to achieve goals.
Explain why the work is important at the micro, mezzo, and/or macro levels. In your explanation, describe the intersection of or relationship between the SDGs addressed in the policy.
Describe at least one innovation from which the policy could benefit—or, if the policy is pursuing innovation, describe the innovation and its potential strengths and shortcomings.
Explain how this is important to the field of social work.
SUBMISSION AND GRADING INFORMATION
This is a brochure assignment. Both front and back needs to be filled. Directions are below. Imagine you work
This is a brochure assignment. Both front and back needs to be filled. Directions are below.
Imagine you work for a Domestic Violence Shelter. Create a trifold brochure on intimate partner violence (IPV) that provides assistance to those in your community. Your brochure must address the following:
1. Describe intimate partner violence (IPV) for both genders.
2. Provide evidence-based strategies for victims of IPV.
3.Include community resources to support victims of IVP.
Both sides of the trifold brochure must be fully utilized. Images may be used; however, only use images with small file sizes. You may use Microsoft Word, which has several creative document templates.
https://templates.office.com/en-us/Brochure-TM02911897
Cite two to four scholarly sources from the GCU library to support your claims.
APA 7 format needs to be used for all references.
In this assignment, you are asked to re-read your explanation of inequality in the US as written in Assignment
Sociology Assignment Help In this assignment, you are asked to re-read your explanation of inequality in the US as written in Assignment 1.
You will reflect on how your socialization has impacted your beliefs.
Be sure to address the specific questions below.
(When you submit your response, you will also submit two quick multiple-choice responses that categorize your overall impression of your own initial writings as well as that of your classmates.
These are opinion questions so it is just a reflection of your impression. Your grade will be based upon your written response).
Looking over what you wrote in Assignment 1, do you feel that your response reflects the Dominant American Ideology or do you think that it questions US ideology (such as by pointing out how structural factors that may impede social mobility?)
Marger discusses 7 specific beliefs relevant to the Dominant American Ideology (chapter 8, page 226 to 236) as well as 3 ancillary beliefs (237-239). Use specific quotes from your writing and talk about how they either illustrate or contradict, the beliefs discussed by Marger.
How has your socialization impacted how you explain inequality? For instance, how does your family history and the experiences of family members (currently and in earlier generations) help inform how you explain the sources of inequality?
Pulling from the 7 beliefs that make up the Dominant American Ideology (as discussed by Marger in chapter 8 (page 226 to 236) discuss how your classmate’s writings reflect or contradict these beliefs.
Use specific quotes from at least three different classmates as illustrations for at least 3 different beliefs. (You may also discuss the 3 ancillary beliefs p 237-239)
Textbook: Marger, Martin N. 2014. Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes, 6th edition. McGraw-Hill. (ISBN 9780078026935)
American History
Please watch this video from HBO’s Last Week Tonight on a segment titled American History. After watching, in two pages, please respond to the following question.
Give a summary of the segment. What did Oliver try to argue, did he do it well, and what examples did he use? If he did not make his argument well, what was he missing? Give concrete examples!
How can this tie into the banning of Mexican-American Studies in Tuscon, the San Francisco State Ethnic Studies Protests, and the backlash to the NYT 1619 Project? How are they all tied together and why is their resistance to “more inclusive history?
How were you taught American History? Is it more like what Oliver is arguing, or have you have what you believe a genuinely inclusive historical experience in school?