• Explain what constitutes a policy leadership role within the field of social work.
• Explain what can happen if social workers fail to exert policy leadership, allowing others with less commitment to client well-being and less dedication to improving the human condition to shape the social welfare and human service delivery systems.
• Explain how policies at all levels of a social welfare system can impact service accessibility and service delivery. Provide specific examples. Refer to Social Work Disposition #12: Standard: Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Broader Society when responding to this prompt.
• Explain why policy advocacy can be a unifying theme for the social work profession.
• Describe the intersecting, multi-level roles (micro, mezzo, and macro) of a policy practitioner centered around analyzing social problems, developing policy change solutions and strategies, formulating and implementing policies and related programs, and evaluating the impact of policies and programs
• Use specific examples to illustrate how a social worker might bring about policy change at each level of social work practice