{"id":22364,"date":"2022-01-23T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freestatesocialwork.com\/?p=22364"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:01:12","slug":"22364","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freestatesocialwork.com\/?p=22364","title":{"rendered":"Political Advocacy Without a Choice: Highlighting African American Political Social Workers (2 credit hours)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Participants\u00a0who complete this course\u00a0will receive 2 continuing education clock hours. 1 of these clock hours is\u00a0Ethics and 1 of these clock hours is\u00a0Social and Cultural Competence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Program Summary: \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>This course highlights the political action and leadership of early African American social workers and their work challenging discrimination and injustice while advocating for systemic change. \u00a0Authors Donisha Shepherd and Suzanne Pritzer offer a social work history that moves beyond Jane Addams’ Hull House and includes the important and sometimes overlooked contributions of social workers like Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Victoria Earle Matthews, Thyra Edwards, Lester Blackwell Granger, and more. \u00a0The course uses Lane and Pritzker’s five domains of political social work practice as a framework for understanding the different domains of political advocacy. \u00a0The course also includes the NASW 2021 Blueprint of Federal and Social Policy Priorities, which outlines current policy priorities and solutions for national leaders. \u00a0Priorities such as high quality healthcare for all, ending homelessness, eliminating racism, reforming immigration policy, and advancing political justice are given.<\/p>\n

This course is recommended for social workers and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice. \u00a0This course is not recommended for NBCC ethics credit.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The NASW Code of Ethics offers six ethical standards “relevant to the professional activities of all social workers,<\/i>” including social \u00a0workers’ ethical responsibilities to the broader society.<\/i>\u00a0 \u00a0Social workers should engage in social and political action that seeks to ensure that all people have equal access to the resources, employment, services, and opportunities they require to meet their basic human needs and to develop fully. \u00a0Social workers should be aware of the impact of the political arena on practice and should advocate for changes in policy and legislation to improve social conditions in order to meet basic human needs and promote social justice (NASW Code of Ethics, 2017).<\/i><\/p>\n

\"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Book\" \u00a0Open the First Course Reading Here.<\/a><\/p>\n

First Course Reading: \u00a0<\/strong>Political Advocacy Without a Choice: \u00a0Highlighting African American Political Social Workers<\/em><\/p>\n

Authors:<\/strong> \u00a0Donisha Shepherd and Suzanne Pritzker<\/p>\n

Publisher:<\/strong> \u00a0Advances in Social Work<\/p>\n

\"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Book\" \u00a0Open the Second Course Reading Here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Second Course Reading:<\/strong>\u00a0 The NASW 2021 Blueprint of Federal and Social Policy Priorities<\/p>\n

Publisher:<\/strong> \u00a0NASW<\/p>\n

Course\u00a0Objectives:<\/strong>\u00a0 To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by highlighting the early political work and advocacy of African American social workers and current NASW policy priorities.<\/p>\n

Learning Objectives: \u00a0<\/strong>Describe the often overlooked political work and advocacy of early African American social workers. \u00a0Describe the social work profession’s ethical responsibility to the broader society and social justice. Identify Lane and Pritzker’s five domains of political social work practice. \u00a0Provide examples of current NASW policy priorities and solutions.<\/p>\n

Review our\u00a0pre-reading study guide.<\/a><\/p>\n\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t