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Question - Human service agencies exist to improve human functioning in a community. Understanding social, economic, and environmental justice to advocate for human rights at the individual and system levels is an integral part of choosing and providing services. The people who created or formed the agency believed a social problem/injustice existed in the community and that the services they wanted to provide would help make things better in the community. Social workers have an ethical responsibility to continually evaluate their work and revise, modify, and change their work to ensure it addresses the social problems in the most effective ways. Social workers must engage in practices that advance social, economic, and environmental justice.
1. What social problems exist in your community that relate to human rights and social, economic, or environmental justice? Which of these are addressed by your agency?
2. In what ways does your agency uniquely address these problems on both micro and macro levels?
3. What ethical issues/dilemmas, and/or conflicting viewpoints exist re: the social problem (and its solutions) addressed at your agency?
4. In what ways, if any, are new research findings, best practices, and data changing the way your agency measures, conceptualizes, and explains the social problems it attempts to address?