{"id":49,"date":"2023-08-27T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2024-04-03T19:11:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T19:11:58","slug":"competency-5-engage-in-policy-practice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/competencies\/competency-5-engage-in-policy-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Competency 5: Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"b-qt qt_134178\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #003366\">\u201cWhile all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill &#8211; little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.\u201d &#8211; John Adams<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Competency 5: <span class=\"TextRun SCXW40743530 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW40743530 BCX8\">Policy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Engage in Policy Practice<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As an advanced generalist social worker, I aim to highlight both my writing skills as well as advocacy in the development and execution of policy <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in a way that is culturally informed, utilizing an anti-racist and anti-oppressive lens. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My commitment to this area of social work has driven me to engage with stakeholders, informing and collaborating with them to bring positive policy changes that will benefit individuals as well as systems. I will also contribute to policy-related initiatives, identify areas in need of reform, and use resources to make an impactful change. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Practice Behaviors and Evidences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">5.1 &#8211; Advocate with and inform stakeholders to impact policy change<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/competencies\/competency-5-engage-in-policy-practice\/field-evidence-for-practice-behavior-5-1\/\">Field Evidence for Practice Behavior 5.1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5.2 &#8211; Develop and implement a policy and\/or advocacy plan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/competencies\/competency-5-engage-in-policy-practice\/course-evidence-for-practice-behavior-5-2\/\">Course Evidence for Practice Behavior 5.2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill &#8211; little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.\u201d &#8211; John Adams Competency 5: Policy Engage in Policy Practice As an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/competencies\/competency-5-engage-in-policy-practice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":855,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/855"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/601"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/amymejias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}