Your Role as Social Worker within the Organizational Context: Self Reflection/Preparing for Practice.
Social workers working within human service organizations are often challenged to apply their skills to many different worker-client environments/settings. Choose a specific agency/organization among public private (for-profit) types of organizational settings.
Your reflective paper should first provide a brief overview of the chosen organization/agency and its service statements and other pertinent material, describe (include who the client is and how services are delivered) and then critically assess the merits and drawbacks of your potential professional work in that setting. Is this agency a fit for you? Why or why not? Do the values fit within your own
personal value system? What are some of the challenges here? How might different ways of knowing influence services provided by this organization and what might your role be in promoting and advocating for change for gaps in services? For example, are indigenous ways of knowing considered? Supports and resources for
newcomers? Francophones?
This paper should be referenced with attention to organizational structure and functioning and other relevant aspects of organizational life with particular emphasis on your potential opportunities to exercise informal leadership as a new social worker.
This paper should be no longer than 4-6 pages in length excluding references; double spaced. Standards of writing will be a factor in grading assignments. Please complete your writing submissions in a style of formatting consistent with APA (7th Edition) style/format. Information on APA can be accessed via the American Psychological Association (2001), Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Other APA style resources can be accessed via the U of C Student Success Centre website at http://www.ucalgary.ca/ssc/APA.
