Legal and ethical issues of outreach work

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Legal & Ethical Issues of OutreachLegal & Ethical Issues of Outreach
Instructor: Graham McDonaldInstructor: Graham McDonald

2.  Examine laws and policies relevant to outreach
work
 List safe procedures essential to outreach work
 Identify ethical considerations in relation to
systems (health, justice, education, social
services)
 Explain how personal values impact work
Course Learning ObjectivesCourse Learning Objectives

3. Defining OutreachDefining Outreach
•• Delivers services to individuals and groups in theirDelivers services to individuals and groups in their
natural settingsnatural settings
•• Mobilizes and empowers individuals and groups toMobilizes and empowers individuals and groups to
access mainstream or fixed-site servicesaccess mainstream or fixed-site services
(e.g. clinics)(e.g. clinics)
•• Helps build community by connecting individualsHelps build community by connecting individuals
•• Supports behaviour changeSupports behaviour change

4. Introduction:Introduction:
Come up with a metaphor or visual imageCome up with a metaphor or visual image
that describes what it feels like to be doingthat describes what it feels like to be doing
this outreach and advocacy work whenthis outreach and advocacy work when
ethical considerations arise.ethical considerations arise.
E.g. Doing this work at times can feel like a fishE.g. Doing this work at times can feel like a fish
in murky waters.in murky waters.

5. Legal Frameworks Ethical/Policy Related Frameworks
Adult Guardianship Act BC Harm Reduction Strategies and
Service Policies
Child, Family and Community
Services Act
BC Guidelines for Elderly Mental
Health Care Planning for Best Practices
for Health
Criminal Code Canadian Association of Social Workers
– Code of Ethics
Freedom of Information and Protection
of Privacy Act
Personal Information Privacy Act
Existing FrameworksExisting Frameworks

6. Shifts in Perspective…Shifts in Perspective…

7.  Scan/browse the document
 Take different colored highlighters
and identify:
 A policy or clause that they see as
greatly impacting clients
 A policy or clause that is crucial to
their own well being as an outreach
and advocacy worker
 A policy or clause that greatly affects
their agency or organization
DiggingDigging
DeeperDeeper

8. Ethical Principles Ethical Decision
Making
Code of Ethics
Personal and Organizational Principles
Duty to Warn/Duty to Report
The Process of Ethical Decision Making
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