ISSUE STATEMENT
- Issue Statement: Create a 1-paragraph issue statement that hooks your audience and concisely communicates the imperative to address your selected social problem (HOMELESSNESS). Include the following:
- In 1 paragraph, define your social problem and the population impacted by it.
- In 1–2 paragraphs, explain your critical reasons for why the public and decision-makers, as well as social workers, need to advocate for change.
- In 1–2 paragraphs, describe what happens in communities if your goal to alleviate the problem is realized.
- Policy Review: Summarize your selected policy, its relationships to the social problem, and the expected results. Then address the following:
- Is your selected policy dictated by local or state (Georgia, USA) statute—or a combination thereof?
- How does the policy address your issue statement? Or what is missing?
- What are the different sections, or components, of the policy?
- How long has the current policy been in place?
- Who supports and who opposes the policy?
- What changes, or amendments, have been made to the policy?
- Explain how this policy affects clients you might see in a clinical setting and why, as a clinical social worker, it would be important to advocate for change.