Project: Part 4: Identification of a Policy Alternative-6361-wk9
POLICY ANALYSIS 3

Policy Analysis

Stephan Bell

Walden University

Social advocacy is the active support of the ideas that most impact the individual and organization’s different opinions and decisions. Notably, the advocacy aims to develop a context that creates effective policies that ensure effective decision-making and better implementation (Ruth, Wachman Marshall, 2019). In this case, the articulated policies ensure that the basic necessity of the individual in the community is effectively addressed for better coexistence. However, some various strengths and weaknesses are associated with the Social Advocacy Skills and policies for effecting change in the community that various social organizations in the community try to solve to enhance significant changes.

There are several strengths that the social Advocacy Skills and policies for effecting change pose that enable clear enation and implementation. For instance, clarity of purpose ensures that the approach advocated for having the vision, mission, and clear goals that are fundamental for its performance. In this case, the individual involved in a particular community work develops a substantial focus that facilitates them to have a better route to follow for implementing the project without wasting a lot of time. More so, the social advocacy policy has a substantial safeguard. The situation enables the project to have numerous ways to help the community understand how they can be involved in various community activities. In this case, the individual should be an active partner that ensures that they express their wishes and feelings that support their agenda (Browne, 2019).Furthermore, social advocacy empowers the community. Notably, the program’s strategy focuses on saving and empowering the aims and goals of the community that are substantial for more effective development in society. Social advocacy ensures that the policies that are advocated put the life of the people first. In this case, the people’s interest in the community is given the priority that shapes them to have an effective implementation that will provide better guidance in the future.

However, Social Advocacy Skills and policies for effecting change have various weaknesses in the community. For instance, some individual has been indulged in racial or ethnic prejudice in the community. In this case, the group always feels more neglected in the community as they are denied the identity that safeguards their interest in the community. The policies sometimes advocate for the right of the majority who have the reflective acute in the society. The situation makes the development policies to abandon some substantial development that could have been passed on to the minority.

Various strategies are working, thus enabling the effective implementation of the advocated policies in the community. For instance, policy advocacy follows all the clarity of purpose that gives it the better goal that enables the community to focus on the main list evaluated by the policies. However, sometimes the policies fail to work in the community. For instance, cultural prejudice and ethnicity have tremendously affected the delivery of services in the community.

The changing of the policies can affect the clinical social workers in different ways. For instance, changing the policies mean that the previous mission, vision, and goals that the advocacy policies have advocated are no more. Thus the workers are forced to focus on the other agendas that were initially not their priority. The situation can affect the progress of their duties and the clients that they attend in the community.

The advocacy activities that I proposed on the week six assignment are well stipulated in the community, and they are more effective. Their progress in the community is better, and the policies can bring significant changes to the clinical social workers and the client in the community,

References

Ruth, B., Wachman, M. K., & Marshall, J. (2019). Public health social work. Handbook of Health Social Work, 93-118.

Browne, T. (2019). Social Work Roles and Healthcare Settings. Handbook of health social work, 21-37.