Rural, Northern and Remote social work

Social work is a profession in which the lives of individuals and groups of people are positively affected through the efforts of professionals that seek to make a difference in their lives. The profession can be best understood through a spectrum. In one end, social work professionals can focus their efforts by directly assisting an individual to help improve his or her functioning and development. In the other end, social work professionals may emphasize their efforts in making changes in the global community seeking social justice. The approach on how to improve the conditions of an individual or a group of people is supported by a multifaceted, yet holistic perspective.

In this essay, the articles ‘Listen to the north’ by John Ralston Saul and ‘Which ‘Native’ History? By Whom? For Whom?’ by J.R. Miller will be analyzed, specifically looking at each authors argument and his appeal to ethos, logos and pathos. In the first article, ‘Listen to the North’, author John Ralston Saul argues that current Canadian policy when it comes to our north, and the people that reside there, is out of date and based on southern ideals that hold little bearing on the realities that face northern populations. He suggests instead that the policies and regulations should be shaped by people who know the territory and it’s needs, namely people who live there. In the second

Firstly, in Canada, social workers encounter issues, which are strange to their experiences and knowledge gained from the past. This is because Canada has a rich and diverse population. Canada is home to people from all over the world and the diversity is contributed by an increase in migration due to unrest and poverty in many other countries around the globe. This implies Canadian population represents a different culture, living, and ethnicity along with different individual experiences and problems. Social workers are in the front line to support people to solve their issues and cope with challenges. This act of working for an individual requires a great deal of understanding of both person and problem. As the number of people from different parts of the world increased, social workers encounter difficulties in identifying and understanding the issues as it varies from their past knowledge and expertise. The current paradigm isn’t enough to provide with relevant

It is important to be involved in macro practice in order to be competent agency leaders, social change advocates, and world changers. Social workers who engage in macro practice increase their knowledge and skills of the profession by learning more about the systems they work in. They build their strengths in this area, therefore, making them competitive and marketable to higher level opportunities within agencies, organizations, and communities.

This paper will review and critically evaluate a submission by The Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW). Being put forward to the Senate Education, Employment and workplace Relations Committee in 2012, in reference to “the adequacy of the allowance payment system for jobseekers and others, the appropriateness of the allowance payment system as a support into work and the impact of the changing nature of the labour market.” (Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Reference Committee, 2012).

Working in social care is about providing personal and practical support to help people live their lives. You could be supporting someone with a physical disability, autism, dementia or a mental health condition. You could be working in a care home, out in your local community, in a hospital or from someone's home (providing care in someone's home is often called domiciliary care. There are lots of different roles in social care depending on what you want to do, who you want to work with and where you'd like to work.

Modern social workers participate actively in helping people to obtain rights, services, benefits and opportunities that they might not otherwise obtain through micro policy advocacy, ?often prioritize the needs of vulnerable populations when they engage in advocacy? (Jansson, 2016, p. 21). Through community immersion, the social worker gains an understanding of the community attributes and desiderata, requiring them to utilize their experience and expertise to advocate policies that will satisfy the client?s needs (NASW, n.d.). Furthermore, when social workers immerse themselves in the community, it becomes an act of care and concern to serve the community. Compelling them to implement new changes, depict workable intervention schemes, and generate attainable treatment plans to satisfy the needs of the individuals, families and community.

Canada’s North is often seen as the country’s national identity. In actuality, it stems far beyond the isolated land of picturesque vistas used to often describe Canada’s rugged landscape. The lived Canadian environment reflects a regional perspective that does not encompass the true reality of the country as a whole. The North links the diversity of Indigenous peoples to the land they have occupied for centuries, a place where they have built their own distinct culture, language and identity. Those ideals have been increasingly challenged in the twenty-first century, in spite of the imagined sense of ‘Canadianness’ in the North but because of the transitioning economy and environment in the North. This paper will explore the challenges facing Canada’s northern resource economy and the socio-cultural implications on the regions Aboriginal population.

State the significance to social work practice and social policy: Food insecurity and malnutrition is an endless pressing issue on the macro level of social work across the nation. This is a significance part of a social workers job is to address these issues on a larger scale. Social workers incorporate multisector strategies to address this issue through different agencies hoping to develop evaluations that would produce results of the need base for nutritional and food security programs, which leads to funding for these programs as well. The social polices of this includes providing food pantries, food banks, healthier options in school systems, and nutritional programs that helps reduce hunger and to address the poor heath concerns associated

[Ives N., Denov M., Sussman T. (2015) Introduction to Social Work in Canada: Histories, Contexts & Practice. Dons Mills, ON page 94]

We were in the house my sisters and I. My dad was at the parking lot fixing the car, my mom was not home. Suddenly the doorbell went off and my older sister went to go get it. A woman around her mid thirties walked beside my sister as they came back into the house. Once I saw her I became uneasy. I had an idea who she was and what she was here for. She was well dressed and she had a clipboard full of papers in her hands. This was not the first time a social worker had come to our house, but I was hoping it would be the last.

It is sad that in our society, conformity and assimilation have led to schisms in our communities. The Calgary Case Study is one such example. Mentally ill people who are marginalized face a myriad of struggles that are belittled and poorly understood. Those of us who are in a position to make a positive contribution to the lives of mentally ill community members, would rather choose to spend our efforts on more esthetically pleasing “charities”. It seems that mainstream society would rather see the issues surrounding the mentally ill simply go away and remain ignored. As social workers, it is our responsibility to make certain that this does not continue. In the following pages we will explore the

From this chapter there are people who assume and have misunderstandings about people who have disabilities. Social workers need to focus on the strengths and the individual needs of someone who has a disability. Social workers need to use service provisions and client self-determination to the fullest. Developmental disabilities are severe and chronic.

Front-line professionals, like social workers and feminist advocates, interpret and fulfill the ambitions of government policies and channel different services to citizens. As the life-long dreamer of those professional obligations, I always, naïvely, concluded that there are coherent morals- and ethical congruence between governmental entities and the profession of social work and most importantly, amongst front-line professionals and advocates in regard to recipients and retention or the strengthening of a welfare state. I deemed that entities serving vulnerable citizens should, but would, without regard, hold moral systems that sustain their ethical codes and constitutional obligations. Thus, recipients of a welfare state would be viewed

With reference to changes in government policy and ideologies of welfare, debate the significance of the shift from the Victorian ‘Mad pauper’ to the 21st century ‘Mental health service User’ and its impact on social work practice and values.