SWK 5012   UNIT 3 DUE 10/30/22   Collaborative Presentation Materials Assignment Overview You and a few of your fellow learners have been assigned to construct a presentation on one of the following groups: Working with African-Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos

SWK 5012

UNIT 3

DUE 10/30/22

Collaborative Presentation Materials

Assignment Overview

You and a few of your fellow learners have been assigned to construct a presentation on one of the following groups:

• Working with African-Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos.
• Working with Asian Americans and immigrants.
• Working with LGBTQ clients.
• Working with ableism or disability and lookism.
• Working with older people, spirituality, and religion.

Each person working on the presentation is researching and contributing specific slides that analyze issues of power, privilege, and oppression as they pertain to the chosen group, as well as strategies and approaches for practice when working with these issues. This assignment will ask you to submit the presentation slides that you contributed to the presentation for an individual grade.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAs and specialized practice behaviors:

• EPA Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
  • C1.SP.B: Articulate and provide leadership in the application of the core values and ethical standards of the social work profession through an ethical problem solving model to aid in critical thinking and ethical decision making related to individuals, families, organizations, and communities to guide and inform ethical advanced generalist social work practice.
    • Related Assignment Criteria:
      • 3. Discuss challenges that may arise from clients' cultures and from differences among people and cultural groups.
• EPA Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
  • C1.SP.C: Integrate the ethical and effective use of technology at all levels of advanced generalist social work practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
    • Related Assignment Criteria:
      • 1. Create slides that address chosen theme(s) related to culturally relevant practice.
• EPA Competency 2: Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice.
  • C2.SP.A: Analyze dimensions and differentiation in diversity and apply the influence of relationships, intervention techniques, and technologies with diverse clients, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
    • Related Assignment Criteria:
      • 2. Discuss theory applicable to the selected group.
      • 4. Discuss techniques and best practices applicable to the selected group.

Assignment Description

This assignment follows on the presentation you completed with some of your fellow learners. After having collaborated on a recorded presentation to share with the class, you will now submit the slides that you contributed to the presentation and discuss your experience creating them.

Each learner creates 2–4 slides that discusses the selected group around one or more of the following themes:

• History and heritage.
• Current events.
• Geography, migrations, and diasporas.
• Privilege, oppression, and discrimination.
• Assimilation and acculturation.
• Education and employment.
• Healthcare.
• Family structure.
• Gender roles and relationships.
• Religion and spirituality.
• Other relevant themes approved by your instructor.

Assignment Instructions

Complete the following:

1. Create 2–4 slides that address chosen theme (or themes) related to culturally relevant practice.
2. Discuss theory applicable to the selected group.
3. Discuss challenges to practice with the selected group.
4. Discuss techniques and best practices applicable to the selected group.

Additional Requirements

Your slides are expected to meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession. Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Express ideas clearly, employing correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards.
• Resources: Minimum of three scholarly sources other than your course text. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past 5 years.
• Number of slides: 2–4 slides.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Submit your completed assignment by the end of this week.

Remember that your instructor will be providing feedback on your assignments. Use that feedback to improve the content of your final paper.

Resources

• Collaborative Presentation Materials Scoring Guide.