Instructions
Social policy connects to all aspects of social work practice, even if the connections are not always immediately obvious. For this assignment, you will look at policy implications of a social problem that is important to you. Your goal is to find some of the federal, state, or other policies which affect the prevention of, interventions for, or understanding of your social problem.
To find a policy related to your social problem, navigate to the Encyclopedia of Social Workthrough the YU library (if that link doesn’t work for you, navigate to the main library website and then search “Encyclopedia of Social Work” in the search bar). You might have to look at a few articles to find what you need. Choose “policy” or “political” as a search option for “heading” or search on the topic of interest to you, something short like “health care” or “mental health” or “discrimination.”