As with all areas of the social work process, cultural competence is essential when engaging and assessing a child’s concerns. Being culturally competent includes understanding the unique needs of your client and asking how those needs can be fulfilled. Using an empowerment perspective treating clients as experts on their lives and their needs is essential. Not only does this establish your commitment to being culturally sensitive and aware, but it will enhance the therapeutic relationship. While it is essential to learn and master social work skills and techniques to be a successful practitioner, another significant indicator of a successful intervention is the relationship a social worker builds with his or her client. Some research suggests that the quality of the therapeutic relationship will account for 30% of the clinical outcome of the treatment (Miller, Duncan, and Hubble, 2005, as stated in Walsh, 2010, p. 7). Exhibiting a dedication to learning about a client’s culture, history, and current environmental factors exemplifies a social worker’s desire to build that client–worker bond.

For this Assignment, read the case study for Claudia (attached) and find two to three scholarly articles on social issues surrounding immigrant families.

In a 2- to 4-page paper, explain how the literature informs you about Claudia and her family when assessing her situation.

• Describe two social issues related to the course-specific case study for Claudia that inform a culturally competent social worker.
• Describe culturally competent strategies you might use to assess the needs of children.
• Describe the types of data you would collect from Claudia and her family in order to best serve them.
• Identify other resources that may offer you further information about Claudia’s case.
• Create an eco-map to represent Claudia’s situation. Describe how the ecological perspective of assessment influenced how the social worker interacted with Claudia.
• Describe how the social worker in the case used a strengths perspective and multiple tools in her assessment of Claudia. Explain how those factors contributed to the therapeutic relationship with Claudia and her family.

Support your Assignment with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

Unit III PowerPoint Presentation

You are the emergency manager of your local community and have been issued the task of calling local, state, and federal officials to meet regarding recovery planning and mitigation efforts for flooding within the community. You would like individuals within your department to help you organize and conduct the meeting, so you call them into your office to discuss how you would like the officials to be approached regarding the meeting and what items will be discussed during the meeting. 

For this assignment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation that will cover the following topics related to recovery operations and mitigation strategies within your community: 

methods that will be used to gather stakeholders together for this collaboration process; 

necessary steps that will be needed in order to provide relocation services for flooding victims; 

how business continuity will occur for 7-10 days after the event,15-30 days after the event, and 45 days after the event; 

and individuals who will be instrumental in working alongside community members regarding the Geographical Information System (GIS), which, as you recall, can be used in mapping and visualizing the vulnerabilities within your community. 

Your PowerPoint presentation should consist of at least 10 slides, not including your title slide and references slides. 

Use the Note Section to do in depth

***Go by the powerpoint guide (Attached)

You should use at least two sources, one of which can be your textbook. Be sure that your sources are cited and referenced properly using APA formatting. 

Text book: Kapucu, N., & Özerdem, A. (2013). Managing emergencies and crises. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Journal Entry

Thinking about your local community, how prepared is your community regarding disaster events that may impact the area? What are some of the local, state, and federal resources that may be necessary to use (call upon) after a disaster event has taken place?

Community: Killeen, Texas

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

  Need original and unplagiarized work, please do not accept if cannot return quality work. Please read assignment fully

***Attached is Week III Study guide that will help you with the assignments

When treating clients, social workers must ensure that the evidence-based practice is appropriate for the client and the problem. Then, the social worker must get the client and other stakeholders to support the selected evidence-based practice. To earn that support, the social worker should present the client and stakeholders with a plan for implementation and evidence of the evidence-based practice efficacy and appropriateness. Social workers must demonstrate that they have carefully considered the steps necessary to implement the evidence-based practice, identified factors in the current environment that support implementation of the evidence-based practice, and addressed those factors that may hinder the successful implementation.

For this Assignment, you will take on the role of the social worker in the Levy case study (VIDEO ATTACHED). You will choose an evidence-based practice and attempt to gain the support of both the client and supervisor. To do so, you will address its efficacy, appropriateness, and factors that may impact implementation of the evidence-based practice that you chose.

To prepare for this Assignment, review Levy Episode 2. Then using the registries provided in this week’s resources and the Walden Library, locate an evidence-based practice that you believe would be appropriate for Jake’s case. Then, review the Evidence-Based Practice kit for Family Psycho Education from the SAMHSA website from the resources. Note all the steps and considerations involved in implementing the evidence-based practice and which of these considerations apply to this case. Consider issues such as agency support, resources, and costs that might support or limit the application of the evidence-based intervention that you select.

Instructions:

1. Post an evaluation of the evidence-based practice that you selected for Jake. 

2.Describe the practice and the evidence supporting it. 

3. Explain why you think this intervention is appropriate for Jake. 

4. Then provide an explanation for the supervisor regarding issues related to implementation. 

5. Identify two factors that you believe are necessary for successful implementation of the evidence-based practice and explain why. 

6. Then, identify two factors that you believe may hinder implementation and explain how you might mitigate these factors. 

Be sure to include APA citations and references.

The purpose of this Major Assignment is to immerse you in the qualitative research process. The process includes hands-on opportunities for you to collect, organize, analyze, and interpret qualitative data. This qualitative research process begins with some items that have already been identified for you:

1. The research topic for this effort is the meaning of social change for graduate students. You have been examining videos and reading about social change as part of the course study. 
2. The knowledge you have gained plus your reflections on the meaning of social change will form the beginning of the inquiry. That is, the research question you will explore is “What is the meaning of social change for graduate students?”
3. The description of your efforts of gathering, organizing, and analyzing data will form the basis of your methods section. And, the results of those efforts—the analysis and interpretation of those data—will be summarized. 

This Major Assignment 2 is composed of four parts, each of which will be completed over four weeks. These parts include: Part 1: Introduction; Part 2, Role of the Researcher; Part 3: Results; and Part 4: Summary. 

For this week’s Major Assignment 2, you will complete Part 1. In this Part 1, you will begin to examine social change from a graduate student perspective, explore positive social change as a research problem, and explore the gap in research.

Part 1: Introduction

1. Write a background statement of approximately 1–2 pages that includes:
   1. What you have learned about social change as a social issue.
   2. What you have learned about social change as a research problem. Support your insights with academic citations from the Learning Resources. 
   3. Describe the gap that your study will address.
2. From the gap, create a brief purpose statement that is aligned with the following research question: 

What is the meaning of social change for graduate students?

Before a Crisis

The American Red Cross, along with the Salvation Army and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are the first national-level responders to many disasters in the United States and, depending on the scope of the disaster, sometimes abroad. Many professional associations coordinate with the American Red Cross, including the American Counseling Association, the National Board of Certified Counselors, and other national, state, and regional professional associations. Additionally, local first responders, fire fighters, police officers, and medics contribute to response efforts. Planning for crisis events is the first step in any response to a crisis. Thinking through a future crisis before it occurs facilitates communication and cooperation among agencies, which provides a strong foundation for a successful crisis response.

1.Review Chapter 17 in your course text, Crisis Intervention Strategies, paying particular attention to local and national agencies involved in disaster response.

2. Review the article, “Five Years after Katrina: Progress Report on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal,” to identify state and local Mississippi agencies that responded to Hurricane Katrina. Consider the importance of knowing what agencies are available for your use prior to a crisis/disaster. Then consider how similar agencies in your area might respond.

3. Review the article, “The Proof of the Planning is in the Platting: An Evaluation of Florida’s Hurricane Exposure Mitigation Planning Mandate,” and think about the various planning issues these authors studied. Then consider how you would use the information offered if you were planning for a crisis or disaster.

4. Review the article, “Disaster Planning and Preparedness: A Human Story,” and pay particular attention to the importance of planning and inter-organizational cooperation.

5. Select three crisis-response organizations that operate within your state and analyze the roles of each and the relationships among the three.

Course Text: James, R. K. & Gilliland, B.E. (2017). Crisis intervention strategies (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.  Chapter 17, "Disaster Response"  https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/books/9781305888081/pageid/600

Article: Office of Governor Haley Barbour. (2010). Five Years After Katrina: Progress Report On Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal. Retrieved from http://www.gulfcoastnews.com/images/NewsPdf/Five%20Years%20After%20Katrina.pdf