Learning Objectives
In this chapter, you will learn to:
- Identify eight policy sectors that deliver services, resources, benefits, and opportunities to millions of residents of the United States
- Define micro policy interventions, mezzo policy interventions, and macro policy interventions
- Identify seven core problems that exist in each of the eight policy sectors
- Recognize how advocacy allows social workers to follow the Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
- Define social policy and enumerate different kinds of social policies
- Identify challenges and rewards encountered by policy advocates
- Understand the reform traditions of the social work profession