Macro Skills
The purpose of this activity is to blend your theoretical knowledge of macro practice with your professional creativity. This assignment is intended to build of the theoretical knowledge about organizations that you have learned in HBSE II. This paper will allow you to demonstrate applied practice in an organization. To do this assignment:
1) Choose an aspect from your internship, or professional job that could be changed or implemented. Such as starting a sexual offender group, implementing a standardized trauma or suicide assessment, obtaining grant funding for a therapeutic recreation event, or addressing a bed bug problem in an agency servicing the homeless and impacting transportation and receptivity of other referral services.
Use scholarly references and literature to build your case for change. Your paper should follow this outline:
• A) Briefly introduce the population, the problem/condition, and the organizational arena.
• B) Summarize your problem analysis – cite relevant literature on both the target population and the stated problem (theory, research, evaluation, and practice findings); supporting data, relevant historical incidents, and potential barriers to problem resolution; include target population perspectives; and speculate about the etiology of the problem.
• C) Based on your analysis, state your intervention hypothesis.
• D) Describe the organization in which the problem is occurring, list participants according to the systems, and describe what role(s) the social work change agent will play in the change episode.
• E) Discuss system readiness for change – include openness to change, anticipated or actual response, available resources, and outside opposition.
• F) State your change approach (policy, program, project, personnel, or practice) and why you have selected this approach, including political and interpersonal considerations, resource considerations, and the likelihood of success.
• G) Discuss and provide a rationale for the strategies and tactics you will use, including why you consider this to be a focused or transformative change.
2) Complete your project, this does not mean necessarily implement it, but be able to show the steps identified that would get the project implemented. Start to finish.
• H) State goals and objectives that could be used to evaluate your intervention.
3) Deliver a 15-20 minute presentation of your project for class. So that the class can both learn about your idea and your strategy for implementation. Presentations will be held 2/23 and 3/2
Assignment 1 Grading Rubric
In terms of grading: Paper 85% Presentation 15%
Assignment #1
Paper 85pts. Does not meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Identification of issue to be changed or implemented
(objectives A,B,C,D) 15pts.
Application of theoretical perspective 15pts.
Clear identification of opportunities for change
(objective E) 15pts.
Recommendations for change or intervention
(objectives F,G) 15pts.
Goals & objectives used to evaluate intervention
(objective H) 15pts.
Appropriate writing skills and APA format for sources 10pts.
Assignment # 1
Presentation 15pts. Does not meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Coherence and Organization
5pts.
Good communication and oral presentation skills 5 pts.
Engaged with audience, held attention, adhered to time line 5 pts.
______% of 100% for paper and presentation x 20 pts for assignment =__________points.
