In your role as a social worker you must consider many important issues addressed by American social policy. These include poverty and public assistance, minimum wage and the working poor, civil rights and discrimination, substance abuse, affordable healthcare, training and employment, education and youth services.
You wish to influence and improve the policy process by writing a letter to a key legislator, representing your community, in hopes that policies and programs will better reflect your social work values and the Social Work Code of Ethics.
Identify a policy area or program that you think should be more responsive to community needs. It is probably best to select one that you care about strongly and that has a clear impact upon your clients and their communities.
