Policy Analysis and Formulation Assignment

 

PART 1

 

1. Paraphrase the purpose of your field placement agency use field agency’s mission as a guide). Give some examples of the programs and client needs that your field placement agency helps.

 

THE AGENCY NAME IS BESTSELF here is the website (https://www.bestselfwny.org)

 

2. Paraphrase the asylum-seeking population you would like to help. Describe the country, the country’s values, the history of the population in their country of origin.

 

3. Think of some areas of need this population might have when they arrive in the United States.

 

1. Personal Needs:
2. Family Needs:
3. Community Needs:

 

4. What needs/challenges facing this population might your field placement agency have interest in assisting?

 

5. Create a case example – describe an example of a client who is seeking asylum from one of the countries we examined. These are the countries we examined during class please select from the following: Sierra Leone, Somaliland, India, Africa, Kenya, El Salvador, Puerto Rica, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Australia, and Central America

 

1. Age?
2. Diversity Characteristics?
3. Strengths?
4. Problem areas?
5. Stigmas about the population in the United States?

 

6. Write your up your case example as a short paragraph.

 

7. What do you think this person needs to feel humanely treated in the United States? If you were in this person’s shoes and had their life experiences, what would you want as you resettled in the United States?

 

PART 2

Agency Policy Analysis

 

8. Review your field agency’s mission and the client description/case scenario. Identify the areas of need with which your field placement agency might be able to help.

 

9. Identify and explain one of your agency’s established policies that would affect your client or client population, either positively or negatively.

PART 3

 

Gilbert’s Policy Analysis Framework – Analysis of Agency Policy ( please search up the gilberts policy analysis before proceeding to this part: it will be used in this section.

 

10. Summary: Explain how the policy impacts well-being, service delivery, AND access to social services (PB14, PB15)

 

 

11. Describe the human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice qualities of the agency policy for ALL clients. This includes the general Buffalo population AND clients like the one you created. (PB16)

 

Using the field agency policy, answer the following questions:

 

12. The Bases of Social Allocation

 

1. Who gets what from the policy?

 

1. How would you operationally define the policy? In other words, how does the policy translate into intended or unintended actions?

 

1. How does the policy align with the mission of your field placement agency? Is it consistent or inconsistent? If it’s the latter, how is it inconsistent and how should the agency address the problem?

 

1. How can your agency expand eligibility to improve access, while staying within its budget and mission?

 

13. Types of Social Provisions

 

1. What are the specific social provisions that the policy provides for clients in your agency? Explain each provision and identify its type (i.e., in-kind, in-cash, voucher, power, opportunity).

 

1. Is your client in need of these social provisions? Explain which provisions the policy provides that assist with your client’s needs and the anticipated outcome.

 

1. Explain one provision that your client needs that is NOT addressed by this policy. Can agency policies be changed to address this need while staying within its budget and mission? If so, how?

 

14. Strategies for Provision Delivery

 

1. How do clients of your field placement agency receive the social provisions connected to the policy? (ex: in the agency, at the client’s home, through referral to another agency)

 

1. Explain what delivery methods of social provisions your client can access.

 

1. Explain the agency-based obstacles that would impede the delivery of these social provisions to your client (i.e., focus on agency limitations, not client issues).

 

1. What would make it easier for your client to access the social provisions? Can agency policies be changed to make provision delivery more efficient while staying within its budget and mission? If so, how?

 

PART 4

 

Impact of State and Federal Policies

 

15. Identify (policy name and number) and summarize a New York State that is relevant to your client scenario. https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/CONSOLIDATED.
    1. How does the policy impact well-being, service delivery, and access to social services for the client you created (PB14)?

 

16. Identify (policy name and number) and summarize a Federal policy that is relevant to your client scenario. congress.gov
    1. How does the policy impact well-being, service delivery, and access to social services for the client you created (PB14)?

 

 

 

 

SWK429 – Policy Analysis and Formulation Paper

	1 Poor	2 Below average	3 Satisfactory	4 Above average	5 Excellent
PB 14. Able to identify social policy at the agency, state and federal level and explains how these policies impact well-being, service delivery; and access to social services.	Unable to identify social policy at the agency, state and federal level and unable to explain how these policies impact well-being, service delivery; and access to social services.	Able to identify social policy at the agency, state and/or federal level. Able to vaguely explain how these policies impact well-being, service delivery; and access to social services.	Able to identify social policy at the agency, state and/or federal level. Able to somewhat explain how these policies impact well-being, service delivery; and access to social services.	Able to identify social policy at the agency, state and federal level. Able to mostly explain how these policies impact well-being, service delivery; and access to social services.	Able to identify social policy at the agency, state and federal level. Able to accurately and comprehensively explain how these policies impact well-being, service delivery; and access to social services.
PB 15. Able to use Gilbert’s Policy Analysis Framework to assess how an agency policy impacts well-being, delivery of social services, and access to social services.	Unable to use Gilbert’s Policy Analysis Framework to assess how an agency policy impacts well-being, delivery of social services, and access to social services.	Able to use Gilbert’s Policy Analysis Framework to vaguely assess how an agency policy impacts well-being, delivery of social services, and access to social services.	Able to use Gilbert’s Policy Analysis Framework to somewhat assess how an agency policy impacts well-being, delivery of social services, and access to social services.	Able to use Gilbert’s Policy Analysis Framework to mostly assess how an agency policy impacts well-being, delivery of social services, and access to social services.	Able use Gilbert’s Policy Analysis Framework to accurately and comprehensively assess how an agency policy impacts well-being, delivery of social services, and access to social services.
PB 16. Able to use critical thinking to analyze an agency policy using Gilbert’s Policy Analysis and to identify human rights violations; and/or social, economic, or environmental injustices in the agency policy. Able to use critical thinking to formulate a new agency policy the improves human rights; and/or social, economic, or environmental justice.	Unable to use critical thinking to analyze an agency policy using Gilbert’s Policy Analysis, and unable to identify human rights violations; and/or social, economic, or environmental injustices in the agency policy. Unable to use critical thinking to formulate a new agency policy the improves human rights; and/or social, economic, or environmental justice.	Able to use critical thinking to vaguely analyze an agency policy using Gilbert’s Policy Analysis and to vaguely identify human rights violations; and/or social, economic, or environmental injustices in the agency policy. Able to use critical thinking to vaguely formulate a new agency policy the improves human rights; and/or social, economic, or environmental justice.	Able to use critical thinking to somewhat analyze an agency policy using Gilbert’s Policy Analysis and to somewhat identify human rights violations; and/or social, economic, or environmental injustices in the agency policy. Able to use critical thinking somewhat to formulate a new agency policy the improves human rights; and/or social, economic, or environmental justice.	Able to use critical thinking to mostly analyze an agency policy using Gilbert’s Policy Analysis and to mostly identify human rights violations; and/or social, economic, or environmental injustices in the agency policy. Able to use critical thinking to mostly formulate a new agency policy the improves human rights; and/or social, economic, or environmental justice.	Able to use critical thinking to accurately and comprehensively analyze an agency policy using Gilbert’s Policy Analysis results and to accurately and comprehensively identify human rights violations; and/or social, economic, or environmental injustices in the agency policy. Able to use critical thinking to accurately and comprehensively formulate a new agency policy the improves human rights; and/or social, economic, or environmental justice.