Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice

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Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice Anti-oppressive social work means critically reflecting on your own cultural identities and how the social environment impacts these identities. Acknowledging power and privilege can be uncomfortable; however, with values of multiculturalism and social justice, social workers are committed to engaging in their own personal work and addressing social barriers clients may experience. Social workers view clients from a strengths-based perspective utilizing client strengths to support their goals, rather than pathologizing clients from the lens of the dominant culture. For the past six weeks, you have learned about the social construction of social identities, structural inequality based on dominant and non-dominant groups, and oppressions based on sex, class, and race. While readings have continuously pointed out white privilege as the dominant group privilege, you also know that privilege is not equally distributed in groups. Intersecting identities creates unique experiences for clients. For this assignment, you draw from what you have been learning during the first part of this course and discuss strategies for anti-oppressive social work practice. By Day 7 Submit a 3-page APA formatted paper in which you: Explain the potential impact of white privilege on clients from both dominant and minority groups (consider impact of both positive and negative stereotypes). Explain how intersecting identities might impact an individual’s experience (for example, race/ethnicity and gender, race/ethnicity and class, race/ethnicity and ability, race/ethnicity and sexual orientation, race/ethnicity and class). Providing specific examples, explain how a social worker might utilize cultural strengths when working with clients. Describe 3 social work skills and how a social worker might use them to engage in anti-oppressive work. Support ideas in paper with at least 3 course resources (please reference specific chapters, not the entire textbook) and at least one additional peer-reviewed article from the Walden library (not assigned in this course) to support your ideas.

Identify a scenario where you and someone else are approaching a problem or decision from opposite perspectives. How might you reconcile this?

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Classmate #1

Discussion 7:

Identify a scenario where you and someone else are approaching a problem or decision from opposite perspectives. How might you reconcile this?

August 2017, my Principal received an invitation for two teachers within the electives department preferably Business and Technology to attend the Broward College Aviation Awareness workshop. I had the awesome task to attend the workshop along with our Civil Air Patrol teacher. Broward College launched a career awareness project with the following goals:

· To bridge the gap with the Middle Schools and the Aviation Industry.

· Have students exposed to various career opportunities within the Aviation Industry.

· Introduction to Broward College Aviation Institute and explore various Airlines to gain hands-on experience and job descriptions within the Aviation Industry.

Chin & Trimble (2015) suggest leadership is influenced by communication. In order to achieve a common goal for this project, we both had to collaborate and remain focus to execute the project. Initially, we were clueless about how or where to begin this project. As the Student Government Advisor and Business Education teacher, I initiated the idea to incorporate a program along called “Aviation Opportunity Career Awareness Program” for Crystal Lake Middle School. The idea for the project was to have students exposed to various Career Opportunities within the Aviation Industry, participate in field trips to Broward College to tour the Aviation Facility, and most importantly hear from those guest speakers that shared their testimonies of Corporate Success and Career Path at the workshop. Ms. Cohen, the Civil Air Patrol teacher suggested to implement and assign days for students to Dress for Success. Students that participated in the Civil Air Patrol would wear their uniforms and my business students would dress for success. “Dress for Success” assigned days were utilized as a platform to have our students participate and learn about the Aviation Industry.

Our decision-making process was driven by the three goals of communication, a) instructional goals (performing task), b) relational goals (negotiating conflict), and c) identity management (self-image) (Chin & Trimble, 2015). We both proposed that the following Guest Speakers who presented at the workshop would accommodate and facilitate field trips or speaking engagements for the students. We developed a partnership to introduce this program to Crystal Lake Middle with the following team:

· Ken Richards, Manager Ground Training, Spirit Airlines

· Mike Nonnemacher, Director of Operations, FORT LAUDERDALE HOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

· Russell McCaffery, Dean of Transportation Programs at Broward College.

Broward College Aviation Institute field trip was conducted on October 4th, 2017. Students were welcomed and introduced to the Institute. After a brief overview, the tour moved to the flight simulation labs, the maintenance hanger, flight dispatch, and finally airplanes on the ramp. Spirit Airlines training Center field trip was conducted on February 1st, 2018. Spirit Airlines Operation Manager, Mr. Ken Richards welcomed the students in the training room and gave a brief overview of the training center. Among the speakers were Pilots, Flight attendants, and Ground control teams. Students were taken to the Simulation building where they had an opportunity to land the plane. There was a training area for the flight attendants and safety regulations with life jackets. On February 14th, 2018, Mike Nonnemacher, Director of Operations, FORT LAUDERDALE HOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT visited Crystal Lake Middle as our guest speaker to conduct a presentation on Aviation Opportunity Careers. Mr. Nonnemacher gave an extensive overview of the various departments, job descriptions and salary scales within the industry. He encouraged students to consider the Aviation Industry because some of the departments are underemployed and are overlooked when people are choosing careers. He emphasized the importance of education needed for jobs within the aviation industry and that it does not only encompass pilots and air traffic controllers. He gave an example of an individual that holds a Masters in Business Administration will possess the educational skills needed for office management positions.

Chin & Trimble (2015) state, “Diverse thinkers help a team think out of the box and bring in different perspectives for more creative solutions”. As a result of Ms. Cohen, military expertise within the Aviation Industry and my expertise within the Business Industry, Crystal lake Middle students gained hands-on experience, exposure to the various job descriptions, knowledge about skills, and salary scales within the Aviation Industry. The visit to Broward Aviation Institute and Spirit Airlines broadened their horizon and bridged the gap for middle school students and career opportunities within the Aviation Industry. Crystal Lake Middle was the first school to launch this program. As the pilot school, we plan to enhance and continue the program by allowing more of the aviation team presenters to become involved either by field trips or visiting Crystal Lake Middle in the near future.

Reference:

Chin, J. L., & Trimble, J. E. (2015). Diversity and Leadership. In J. L. Chin, & J. E. Trimble,Dimensions of Diversity(pp. 21-51). Los Angeles: Sage.

Classmate #2

For the closing of the Summer 1, 2020 (02/20) semester, I along with another lecturer have to prepare for our assigned course final examinations. We are deliberating on the examination format and this has been going on for the past week as the course is totally online due to the pandemic and this format is basically new to us. The lecturer feels that the examination should comprise of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and short essays. I differed as I am of the opinion that the examination should be only MCQs as this would be graded and returned to us the lecturers immediately after the students completes the examinations. Plus, reading and grading four essays for 60 students to me is just too tiresome and time consuming at this time. There is a total of 120 students. The other lecturer felt that the particular cohort of students enrolled in 02/20 should have more essay writing questions than MCQs.

At my university, the procedure for the final examination is to have one common examination for multiple course sections. Thus, all of the lecturers have to contribute evenly to the examination. We have met and discuss the way forward as it pertains to the examination. Notably, 02/20 examination is scheduled to be held on a Friday and the following Monday is the start of Summer 2 classes.

The question of how we can reconcile this matter is a very important one. According to Chin and Trimble (2015, p. 25) there should be team-oriented behaviors amid groups that incorporates cooperative, competent, and diplomatic behaviors. Working together as a team requires working in an environment that is realistic, cordial, and trustworthy. As faculty members we should equally contribute to identify and solve problems as they occur in the organization. To date the lecturer and I have decided to keep a portion of the MCQs, reduce the number of essays to two instead of four and write the essays to have a fill in the blank response. We had to come to a comprise. She opted to structure the essays differently, and I decided to reduce the amount of MCQs so that the examination could be completed in the allotted time requirements.

Chin, J. L. & Trimble, J. E. (2015). Diversity and leadership. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

Create a report for your Manager on Information-Gathering Techniques.

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Information-Gathering Techniques

Create a report for your Manager on Information-Gathering Techniques.

Gathering information for a new system is important and sets the tone of the development cycle. If not done thoroughly, the project could be a failure before it begins.

You are the Project Manager of XYZ Enterprises. Your manager gives you the task of researching the different techniques used to gather information as the company is going to replace their Case Management System. He would like a report of all the different type of information gathering listed below. For each technique, give reasons to use it and the best ways to accomplish using each information-gathering method.

Interviewing users and stakeholders.
Distributing and collecting questionnaires.
Observing and documenting business procedures.
Collecting active user comments and suggestions.
Researching vendor solutions.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignmentis:

Research the techniques used to collect and gather information for the design of a new system.
Information-Gathering Techniques

Create a report for your Manager on Information-Gathering Techniques.

Gathering information for a new system is important and sets the tone of the development cycle. If not done thoroughly, the project could be a failure before it begins.

You are the Project Manager of XYZ Enterprises. Your manager gives you the task of researching the different techniques used to gather information as the company is going to replace their Case Management System. He would like a report of all the different type of information gathering listed below. For each technique, give reasons to use it and the best ways to accomplish using each information-gathering method.

Interviewing users and stakeholders.
Distributing and collecting questionnaires.
Observing and documenting business procedures.
Collecting active user comments and suggestions.
Researching vendor solutions.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignmentis:

Research the techniques used to collect and gather information for the design of a new system.
Just make the HEADERS of the paper sections numbered 1-5 (taken from the gradingrubric)and answer each question in order. Make a reference section at the end in APA format for the minimum 6 references.

1. Researched: Gave reasons for use and best practices using: Interviewing users and Stakeholders (22.1 Points)

2. Researched: Give reasons for use and best practicesusingdistribution and collecting questionnaires. (22.1 Points)

3. Researched: Give reasons for use and bestpracticesusing observing and documentingbusiness procedures. (21.1 Points)

4. Researched: Give reasons for use and bestpracticesusing collecting active user comments and suggestions. (22.1 Points)

5. Researched: Give reasons for use and bestpracticesusing researching vendor solutions. (22.1 Points)

6. Use at least 6 Quality Resources. (6.5 Points)

7. Clarity and writing mechanics. (13 Points)

With respect to the natural resources needed to make wickable shirts, is Patna or Lucknow the preferred location?

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NO PLAGIARISM 750 word count!

please check grammar and punctuation

3 references MINIMUM! Cite properly!

All-Indian Logistics Services (AILS)

Read Case 9-1, page 166-167.

In this paper, please discuss:

  • With respect to the natural resources needed to make wickable shirts, is Patna or Lucknow the preferred location?
  • With respect to transportation considerations, is Patna or Lucknow the preferred location? Why?
  • With respect to labor characteristics, is Patna or Lucknow the preferred location? Why?
  • With respect to quality-of-life considerations, is Patna or Lucknow the preferred location? Why?

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

  • Write 750 words using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
  • Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
  • Include cover page and reference page.
  • At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
  • No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
  • Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
  • Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.