Please! Only Bid if you have the textbook: Human Services In Contemporary America Nineth Edition. William R. Burger.

Learning Activity #2: Politics Response

• Read Chapter 7 of Berger’s text.

• Write a one-page response to the following questions:
• APA formatting is only required for citing sources and references.

• Explore the differences between social reform of the past and that of contemporary society. What changes in needs, populations, demographics, and attitudes propelled these shifts?
• Some professionals believe that welfare reform should seek to promote policies that will even out access to resources and power. However, they differ on how this should be achieved. Identify the two viewpoints proposed to achieve this goal. Which viewpoint more closely aligns with your own and why?
• Several different types of social policy reform exist to serve a variety of needs and populations. Explore your future professional goals. What type of social policy and reform will be the most important to the clients that you will serve?

Learning Activity #3: Advocacy Journal

• Write a one-page journal reflecting on a current need that you see in your area. Discuss how you might work as an advocate for this particular issue by seeking to change social policy.
• To achieve maximum points for content and analysis, the following elements need to be thoroughly addressed:

• Reflect upon your role as an advocate in the human services field.
• Identify and describe a need in your area that you think can be helped by social policy amendment.
• Reflect on Chapter 7’s material on how to change social policy. Indicate what actions you could take (lobbying, research, using the media) to promote this change.

• APA formatting is only required for citing sources and references.

Learning Activity #5: Social Policy Paper

• Read Chapter 7 of Berger’s text.
• Write a two to three page paper that explores issues that occur when defining and creating public policy. Explore how negative stereotypes are formed, and how a worker can seek to change these negative viewpoints.
• To achieve maximum points for content and analysis, the following elements need to be thoroughly addressed:

• Discuss at least one issue that occurs when defining public policy (reference the reading material under Making Public Policy).
• Public policy reform requires the collection of information from various sources. However, there are several issues that can occur regarding collecting valid research, evaluating social influences, and overcoming barriers to reform.Identify at least two issues that may occur when establishing public policy (reference the reading material under Factors in Establishing Public Policy).
• Using support from an outside resource, examine one stereotype about the “poor” in American society. Examine social stigma and viewpoints that support this stereotype.Explore what you can do as a worker to dissuade the proliferation of this negative stereotype.

• Ensure that you have cited and referenced at least two scholarly sources.