The document outlines an assignment focusing on assessing community strengths and needs for social work practice. It emphasizes the importance of engagement and assessment skills in community social work, encouraging students to reflect on and analyze their chosen community's characteristics. Additional components include discussing the role of integrity in social work, reviewing relevant literature, and completing a role play script to demonstrate practical application of learned concepts.

1. Week 5
Week 5 Assignment: Assessment Application
Engagement and Assessment of Communities
You should begin researching a community for which you would
like to assess strengths and needs in order to prepare for next
week’s Discussion and Assignment. For more information on
this assignment, please refer to the Assignment section of
Week 5
.
Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hull, G. H., Jr. (2012).
Understanding generalist practice
(6th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.
Chapter 5, "Engagement and Assessment in Generalist Practice"
(pp. 161-206)
Itzhaky, H., & York, A. S. (2002). Showing results in
community organization.
Social Work, 47
(2), 125-131.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hull, G. H., Jr. (2012).
Understanding generalist practice
(6th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.
Chapter 4, "Skills for Working with Organizations and
Communities” (pp. 127-160)
Discussion: Community Social Work

2. When was the last time you drove through an unfamiliar
neighborhood or community? How quickly did you identify that
area as a “good” or “bad” part of town? What led you to that
assessment? It is easy to label a community or town based on its
appearance or reputation alone. Have you ever wondered, as you
drove through certain communities, why some areas appear to
be safe, clean, and filled with many varied businesses, while
others appear run-down and lined with only check cashing
centers, fast-food restaurants, and liquor stores? As a macro
social worker, you often will see that communities thrive and
falter due to the lack of resources available. Additionally, these
areas may not grow or prosper because their resources have
been untapped. Identifying strengths—be it in your individual
clients, groups, families, and communities—is a key social work
value. Use of this strengths perspective helps you to identify the
potential strengths of a community and how to advocate for its
members to obtain the resources and services they need to be
successful.
For this Discussion
, review this week’s Resources. Reflect on a community with
which you are familiar and that is in close proximity to you.
Then, consider the population and geographical characteristics
of that community, as well as its strengths and challenges. Take
pictures of the community that represent the characteristics you
identified. Finally, think about how these challenges you
identified might be viewed as a strength for that community.
Post by Day 3
a description of the community you selected. Then, explain the
strengths and challenges associated with that community based
on its characteristics. Finally, explain how you, as a social
worker, might help the community view its perceived challenges
as a strength.
Be sure to post the pictures you took that represent the

3. characteristics you identified in the community.
Support your posts and responses with specific references to the
Resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your
references.
Document
:
Role Play Script Template (DOC)
Note: You will use this docum
Knee, R. T., & Folsom, J. (2012). Bridging the crevasse
between direct practice social work and management by
increasing the transferability of core skills. A
dministration in Social Work, 36
(4), 390–408.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
[removed]Rome, S. H., & Hoechstetter, S. (2010). Social work
and civic engagement: The political participation of
professional social workers.
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 37
(3), 107–129.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
ent to develop your role play script
Knee, R. T., & Folsom, J. (2012). Bridging the crevasse
between direct practice social work and management by
increasing the transferability of core skills. A
dministration in Social Work, 36
(4), 390–408.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

4. [removed]Rome, S. H., & Hoechstetter, S. (2010). Social work
and civic engagement: The political participation of
professional social workers.
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 37
(3), 107–129.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Assignment: Assessment Application
Engagement and Assessment of Communities
Working with entire communities and organizations might seem
overwhelming, due to the large number of people involved.
Where do you begin? It might be a relief to know that the GIM
is just as useful to social workers practicing at the macro level
as it is for those practicing at the micro and mezzo levels. In
fact, you begin the process in the same way with proper
engagement and the appropriate form of assessment before
enacting an intervention. Successful engagement and assessment
depends on strong interpersonal skills, regardless of the level of
intervention. In some respects, skills such as empathy, warmth,
genuineness, and general rapport-building are the same for
macro work as they are for micro and mezzo work—they just
may be applied in a different way. In other respects, this level
of intervention depends on additional skills not often identified
as social work-related, including negotiating, mediating,
assessing, and budgeting. How might you utilize these skills
when engaging and assessing communities? A competent and
successful social work policy practitioner is able to meld these
skills. This is of particular necessity when the goal is social
change.
For this Assignment
, review this week’s Resources. Refer to the community you
selected for this week’s Discussion. Then imagine that you have
been assigned to complete a needs assessment and identify
potential resources for this community. You elected to interview

5. key informants as one form of assessing this community.
Consider who you would contact as a key informant for this
community. Finally, think about how you might engage the
informant to obtain the community details to complete your
needs assessment.
Assignment: (2- to 4-page paper in APA format).
Your paper should include the following:
A description of the community you selected
A description of the key informants you would contact within
that community
An explanation of why you would contact the key informants
you selected
An explanation of the skills you might use to engage these
informants to obtain the community details to complete your
needs assessment and explain why you chose those skills.
Support your Assignment with specific references to the
Resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your
references.
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Project: Draft of Client System Role Play Script
So far in this course, you have examined the three levels of
social work practice: micro, mezzo and macro. You also have
explored how the GIM steps and specific practice skills apply to
each level of practice. In order to demonstrate your
understanding of these concepts, you will develop a script of a
client session that represents the techniques you might use to

6. implement the GIM steps and practice skills. This script may
depict a client interaction that represents any step in the GIM.
For example, you might choose to show an initial encounter
where you exhibit engagement and assessment skills. Maybe
you might choose to show a glimpse into a session where
intervention has become necessary for a client you have seen
several times. Or you might plan and then execute a meeting to
either evaluate a client’s treatment or terminate the relationship
with a client. Later in this course, you will record a video of a
role play based on this script.
For this assignment,
use the Role Play Script Template provided in this week’s
Resources, to draft and submit your role play script for
Instructor approval and feedback.
Role Play Script (2
–
5 pages):
Your role play script should include:
A description of the client system (depending on the client level
you selected—micro, mezzo or macro).
An explanation of the presenting concern
A description of the client session scene in which you
implement the GIM step and practice skills you have selected
for working with this client system.
A detailed description of the actual dialogue that takes place
between you, as the social worker, and the client(s). Note that
the dialogue should depict the techniques you would use to
implement the GIM step and the practice skills you selected for
the client interaction.
A description of the visual cues that both the social worker and
the client might exhibit during the interaction that support the
GIM step and practice skills you selected.
An explanation of the techniques you might use to implement
the GIM step and practice skills you selected and why.

7. 6000
Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen S. M. (Eds.). (2014).
Working with families: The case of Carol and Joseph
. In
Social work case studies: Foundation year.
Retrieved from http://www.vitalsource.com
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(2014).
Working with survivors of domestic violence: The case of
Charo
. In
Social work case studies: Foundation year.
Retrieved from http://www.vitalsource.com
Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers
(2008). Retrieved from:
http://www.socialworkers.org/pubs/code/code.asp
Discussion: Integrity in Social Work
It seems easy to commit to upholding integrity in social work.
You might imagine a flagrant lack of integrity in a social work
situation and think to yourself, “I would never do that.” Not all
situations are immediately clear, though, and you may find
yourself wondering what the “right thing to do” really is. In
cases like this, it can be helpful to have a trusted colleague or
mentor to whom you can turn and confidentially share your
concern. It is also critical, however, to keep a keen eye on your
internal sense of social work ethics.
For this Discussion, select one of the case studies from this
week’s Readings. Review the NASW Code of Ethics. Consider
whether the behavior of the social worker in the case
demonstrated competence in accordance with the NASW Code
of Ethics.
Post by Day 4

8. a critical review of the social worker’s competence in terms of
the NASW Code of Ethics. Identify at least two attributes or
behaviors displayed by the social worker and explain how they
upheld or contradicted the NASW Code of Ethics.
Himchack, M. (2011). Social justice value approach regarding
physician assisted suicide and euthanasia among the elderly.
Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics, 8
(1).
Retrieved from
http://jswve.org/download/spr11-himchak-
Social%20justice%20approach%20to%20physician%20assisted
%20suicide%20in%20elderly.pdf
[removed]Strier, R., & Binyamin, S. (2010). Developing anti-
oppressive
Walden TurnItIn and Academic Integrity Online Tutorial.
(2015). Retrieved from:
http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ASCsuccess/ASCtiionlinetut
orial
services for the poor: A theoretical and organizational rationale.
British Journal of Social Work, 40
(6), 1908–1926.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
[removed]Walden TurnItIn and Academic Integrity Online
Tutorial. (2015). Retrieved from:
http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ASCsuccess/ASCtiionlinetut
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Walden TurnItIn and Academic Integrity Online Tutorial.
(2015). Retrieved from:
http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ASCsuccess/ASCtiionlinetut
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Assignment: Foundations: Academic Integrity Assignment

9. In social work and academic fields, integrity is often cited as a
fundamental principle. Walden University expects students to
uphold the highest standard of integrity in all of their course
work. Although many of us agree that integrity is important, it
can be helpful to get a clear sense of exactly what it entails.
For this Assignment, visit the Walden Writing Center. View the
Walden Turnitin and Academic Integrity Online Tutorial
. Complete the
Academic Integrity Quiz
within the tutorial and follow the instructions to take a
screenshot of the certificate of completion.