International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, a homeless youth is one who is “under the age of 18 who lack parental, foster, or institutional care.” (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2008) Our youth are very valuable to how our nation will turn out. With that being said, one would think that the numbers of homeless youths would be low. However, this is sadly not the case. These kids are faced with many difficulties for being homeless, one of the biggest being education. Homelessness…

2004). The first principal of respecting the right to self-determination (4.1.1) states that a social worker should respect and encourage people’s right to make their own choices and decisions. (4.1.2) is the principal of promoting the right to participation. Social workers are expected to encourage their clients to utilize services so they may be empowered. (4.1.3) states that a social worker should treat each person as a whole. Lastly, (4.1.4) identifying and developing…

professions. Healey then goes onto elaborate as to how social workers must view themselves and the skills they can accrue to be both effective and trustworthy. Finally the essay is summarized by reiterating how social work discipline must learn from the past if it is to continue into the future…

Part 1 of The Children and Families Act 2014 contains provisions to go through with proposals made in ‘An Action Plan for Adoption: Tackling Delay’ (Department of Education, 2012). The government has made investments of four and half million pounds to end delays for children awaiting adoption; 4,060 children had an adoption decision but were not yet placed at 31 March 2015), on average adoption delays of one year and nine months (Department of Education, 2015). Longer delays were caused by…

motivated, and more focused on my educational goals than I have ever been before. At this stage of my life, I am more determined not to let anything come between me and reaching my dream and my goal of becoming a social worker. In my personal life, I experienced the need for caring social workers when my dear mother unexpectedly became ill, and the hospital diagnosed her with stage four cancer. The doctors told us she only had a few months to live. I decided against the nursing home option…

Hortense Powdermaker’s book, Stranger and Friend, chronicles her experiences doing fieldwork throughout her career. In it, she discusses culture as shared meaning, where context and history give different components of a society social value. Through this process, essential qualities of a culture develop. The theory with which Powdermaker views culture, cultural essentialism, is one which uses these essential qualities as means of identification to form groups of people. This differs from…

The Royal Flush Most people want to make a difference in life and to the world, and we all have different ways of doing it. For instance, some people economize on food or choose to donate clothes to the people and countries with low financial circumstances, while others travel to countries in voluntary work to help and make this difference to the poor people. One of those people is Lindsey. Her adventure and the voluntary work in Bangladesh are described in “The Royal Flush” by Lori Pollock…

initiative, freedom of participation and individualization. Social worker needs to respect to the diversity of religions and customs of group members. For example, social worker cannot force a group member to do something that he or she does not want to do because of his or her religious belief. Also, when conflict between group members appears, social worker needs to address it without hurting each party’s feelings. Social worker needs to pay attention…

personal well-being. It is one of the most popular occupations when it comes to helping people because social workers empower people with problem solving and coping skills necessary to make changes in their lives. Social workers are employed in various settings from hospitals, as a patient advocate, to private practice where they provide individual and group therapy. Social workers are also employed by health insurance companies; state government offices, that focus on child welfare and…

National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics is a set of guidelines that social workers are expected to practice while working. There is a lot to know and follow when pursuing a career as a social worker. Most of the standards are typically self-explanatory. There are six ethical values and principles that are broadly used as a basis of “service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity and competence.” (Workers, 2008, p.3).…