Analyze and assess an at-risk population within your community

Studies

Readings

Use Burghardt’s Macro Practice in Social Work for the 21st Century text to complete the following:

• Read Chapter 6, “Leadership Development Through Relationship Building: ‘Embody the Change You Seek,'” pages 158–201.
  • From the text: “This chapter emphasizes practitioner core competency in both Educational Policy 2.1.7, through its attention to how ‘social workers are knowledgeable about human behavior across the life course . . . and the ways social systems promote or deter people in maintaining or achieving health and well-being,’ and Educational Policy 2.1.9 as practitioners become ‘informed, resourceful, and proactive in responding to evolving organizational, community, and societal contexts at all levels of practice’ and can ‘recognize that the context of practice is dynamic, and use knowledge and skill to respond proactively'” (p. 159).

Systems Analysis

Assignment Overview

This assignment will give you the opportunity to analyze and assess at-risk populations within their communities. For example, homeless, mental health, domestic violence, or high-risk youth.

Assignment Description

For this assignment, you will analyze and assess an at-risk population within your community, such as homeless people, patients of mental health resources, survivors of domestic violence, or high-risk youth. As the populations you will analyze may include or represent emerging issues, some of your data sources may not be peer-reviewed. You may need to consult local artifacts, like newspapers, or conduct personal interviews with people such as local leaders. Remember, you will use this information to develop a model program presentation, due in Unit 10, in which you will analyze, address, and apply specific interventions and evaluations to address the at-risk population’s needs.

Assignment Instructions

In your assignment, include the following:

1. Analyze statistics and demographics of the at-risk population within your community.
2. Analyze the client population’s strengths and limitations.
3. Analyze the community systems and include the following aspects:
   • Describe the leadership structure and how leaders impact the population.
   • Describe how the use of technology impacts this population.
   • Describe the political, economic, social, cultural, geographical, and environmental contexts to shape the advanced generalist for this at-risk population.
4. Analyze the dimensions and differentiation in diversity, and apply the influence of relationships, intervention techniques, and technologies with diverse clients, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
   • Analyze how the influence of relationships, intervention techniques, and technologies may be impacted by the dimensions of difference and diversity.
5. Assess the identified population’s needs within your community.
   • Identify the needed resources, counseling, funding, and services for your target population or system based on your systems analysis.
6. Identify professional use of self with this population through identifying your strengths and needs in working with the colleagues, clients, organizations, and communities that address and advance social and economic justice issues.

Submission Requirements

The assignment you submit is expected to meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Resources, citations, title page, running head, and reference page should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards.
• Cited resources: Minimum of five scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years.
• Length of paper: 8 double-spaced pages.