Demonstrate leadership in developing and implementing evidence-based practice with relevant strategies that advance human rights at the individual, family, group, organizational, community, research, and policy levels

For the Chattanooga Housing Authority Resident Engagement team, I used my social work knowledge of policy and advocacy and developed a protocol for the Household Management Assessments that we will be implementing at all of the resident sites throughout next year.  This protocol will advance human rights at the individual and family level and uses the social work values and social justice and respect for the dignity and worth of individuals by ensuring that they are in a safe and habitable living situation and will also empower and support them by providing them with resources should they need them.  It will also advance human rights at an organizational, community, and policy level, because having these housing units up to par will assure that the Chattanooga Housing Authority will pass HUD inspections and can keep operating and housing low-income individuals and families.  I used the cognitive processes of creating and evaluating and the affective process of valuing in developing this protocol. I used the theoretical foundation of Ecological Systems Theory which focuses on the connection between individuals and their environments, and looks not only how the person is affected by their environment, but how their environment can affect other systems, such as CHA having issues during a HUD inspection should the apartment not be up to par.

The full protocol can be found here.