2000 Articles
Advocacy Be Not Forsaken! Retrospective Lessons from Welfare Reform
This article reviews the often uneven and sometimes peripheral role of advocacy as a social work function and explores its current relevancy in regard to agency practices, ethical mandates, and the "person-in-environment" orientation of social work practice. Welfare reform (in which Aid to Families with Dependent Children [AFDC] was abolished in 1996 and replaced with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families [TANF]) is presented as a case example of both a failed opportunity to influence the course of public debate, and a means to provide the potential benefits of advocacy when it is systematically applied and integrated as part of an overall organizational approach to services. Generalized principles are then drawn from the case study as they apply to advocacy practice with vulnerable populations.
Subjects
Files
-
60163034.pdf application/pdf 752 KB Download File
Also Published In
- Title
- Families in Society
More About This Work
- Academic Units
- Social Work
- Published Here
- October 16, 2012