SOCW 200: Expectations and Hope for the Future of Social Work (10%)
This assignment is designed to help you think about how you envision the role of social work in society.
Review the Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative from the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare which describes more than a dozen Challenges that address significant societal issues.
Choose one of these Challenges that you identify with and use it as the foundation for your statement on the profession of social work and its future.
Write a brief, 2-page statement (or longer, not including references pages or the cover page) on the role of social work in society, and your expectations and hopes for the future of social work.
Describe where you believe the profession of social work will be going in the next five to 10 years, as it pertains to the Grand Challenge you chose, based on relevant information sources in this area.
Share how your personal values align (or not) with this Grand Challenge and how they align (or not) with where you believe social work is heading.
Support your discussion of this with a rationale and examples, and include how this aligns with professional social work ethics, upon reviewing and citing the NASW Code of Ethics (included with the Segal et al., 2019 text as well as within the NASW website).
It is very important that this statement is grounded in social work ethics and values, as outlined in the Code of Ethics (provided in our textbook in addition to within the link above).
