In this chapter, you will learn to:

1. Identify eight policy sectors that deliver services, resources, benefits, and opportunities to millions of residents of the United States
2. Define micro policy interventions, mezzo policy interventions, and macro policy interventions
3. Identify seven core problems that exist in each of the eight policy sectors
4. Recognize how advocacy allows social workers to follow the Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
5. Define social policy and enumerate different kinds of social policies
6. Identify challenges and rewards encountered by policy advocates
7. Understand the reform traditions of the social work profession