Engaging Social Welfare: An Introduction to Policy Analysis

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Examines how social workers can influence policy through practice.

Engaging Social Welfare: An Introduction to Policy Analysis explains the clash between political and economic forces that shape social welfare policy and how social workers can influence policy through their practice. Students will learn how social workers can impact policy in ways that may not feel like policy making, such as reducing the impact of law on their clients, or figuring out a more efficient and effective way to deliver a service. This title provides readers with the knowledge and set of competencies needed to translate the phrase policy practice into meaningful action and the understanding that every social worker is a policymaker.

Connecting Core Competencies Series - This title is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series, designed to guide students in becoming skilled at the Council on Social Work's core competencies. Each chapter reflects and integrates the latest CSWE competency standards (EPAS). End-of-chapter assessment reinforces this integration.

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Mark J. Stern is Kenneth L. M. Pray Professor of Social Welfare and History and Co-Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.  An historian by training, Stern has taught social welfare policy since 1980.  His scholarship covers United States social history, social welfare policy, and the impact of the arts and culture on urban neighborhoods.  He is co-author of One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What It Is Becoming (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2006), which examines the history of social inequality during the 20th century.  Stern is co-founder and Principal Investigator of the Social Impact of the Arts Project (SIAP), a policy research group at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice.  SIAP conducts research on the role of arts and culture in American cities, with a particular interest in strategies for arts-based revitalization.