Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World 2/e

Shannon R. Lane, LMSW, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. She began her political career working for the United States Senate, where she was hired as a staff member for Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle while still an undergraduate at the George Washington University. She received her MSW from the University of Michigan and returned to Capitol Hill to work for Senators Daschle, Pryor, and Nelson. Since 2004, she has been affiliated with the Nancy A. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. She has worked with the Humphreys Institute to coordinate the Campaign School for Social Workers, a two-day training that has trained more than 1,200 social work students and professionals from around the country to run for political office and hold leadership positions in political settings. She earned her PhD in Social Work from the University of Connecticut, and has taught social work policy, macro practice, and research at Yeshiva, Sacred Heart University, Adelphi University, and the University of Connecticut. She advocates on issues such as health care access and gender based violence at the federal, state, and local levels. Shannon shares her passion for political action by researching strategies to increase the political involvement of social workers and underserved populations, and has won national awards for her research on effective teaching of policy and voter engagement. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Social Policy and Research. She is a member of the Council on the Role and Status of Women in Social Work Education with the Council on Social Work Education. Shannon currently serves as Deputy Registrar of Voters in Bethany, Connecticut. She and Suzanne Pritzker, PhD, are the authors of Political Social Work: Using Power to Create Social Change (2018, Springer Publishing). Elizabeth Palley, JD, MSW, PhD is a Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program at the Adelphi University School of Social Work where she teaches social policy to BSW, MSW, and PhD students. She received her JD and MSW from the University of Maryland School of Social Work. She began her career working as a lawyer advocating on behalf of children with special education needs and families with lead poisoned children. Following her experience as a lawyer, she returned to school to pursue a PhD from the Heller School at Brandeis University. Her research since that time has focused primarily on policy implementation and the challenges that implementers, often social workers, face as well as the unintended consequences of social policy on those it is designed to help. She has written extensively about special education, child care policy, and pregnancy discrimination in both peer reviewed journals and Op-Eds and is an editor of the Journal of Policy Practice and Research. In 2009, she had a Fulbright to South Korea where she taught at Yonsei University in their Social Welfare doctoral program. In 2014, she wrote In Our Hands: the Struggle for US Child Care Policy (NYU Press) with co-author, Corey Shdaimah. Corey Shdaimah, LL.M., PhD is the Daniel Thursz Distinguished Professor of Social Justice and Academic Coordinator for the MSW/JD and MSW/MPP dual degrees at the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Social Work. Her work focuses on how policies unfold on the ground, with a special interest in how people charged with implementing policy work in and around policies that they believe are unjust or inefficient. She is also interested in how people who are targeted by policies work around them. In the past ten years she has focused on prostiution policy, including prostitution diversion programs that target street-based sex work, dependency court reforms, and child care policy (often with Elizabeth). Because Corey is interested in learning from people who are most affected by policy but least often heard, her research methods almost always include participatory components ranging from input in research design, engaged qualitative techniques including ethnographic research and photovoice, and work with community groups about how and where to disseminate knowledge that will be of practical as well as academic use. Corey is the author and co-author of many articles, three books including Change Research: A Case Study on Collaborative Methods for Social Workers and Advocates (with Sanford Schram and Roland Stahl, Columbia University Press) and co-editor (with Katie Hail-Jares and Chrysanthi Leon) of Challenging Perspectives on Street-Based Sex Work (Temple University Press).

1. Social Work A Value-Based Profession in Historical Context Policy Practice and Me: Values, Ethics, and History of Social Work A Brief History of US Social Welfare Policy 2. The Making of Race and Structural Oppression in the United States Oppression Social Construction of Race and Racism US History, Race, Ethnicity, Racism, and Oppression Policies to Address Racial Discrimination 3. How Policy is Created and Influenced The Policy Process Current Structure of US Government Political Parties and Ideologies Intervention Methods: How to Engage with the Policy Process 4. Practical Theories for Understanding and Analyzing Policy Background on Vaccines Policy Analysis Theories Interest Group Politics Using Frameworks for Analysis Application of Theories 5. Environmental Policy The History and Social Construction of US Environmental Policy Current Environmental Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy 6. Family Policy History and Social Construction of US Family Policy Current Family Policy Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy 7. Child Welfare Policy History and Social Construction of US Child Welfare Policy The Modern Child Welfare System Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy 8. Early Childhood Education and Care Policy History and Social Construction of US Early Childhood Education and Care Current Child Care and Early Education Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy 9. Education Policy, Kindergarten Through High School History and Social Construction of US Education Current Education Policy Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy 10. Higher Education Policy History and Social Construction of US Higher Education Current Higher Education Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy 11. Work and Employment Policy History and Social Construction of US Work and Employment Current Work and Employment Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy 12. Policy for Older Adults History and Social Construction of US Policy for Older Adults Current Policies for Older Adults Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy 13. Health Policy History and Social Construction of US Health Care Current Health Policy Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy 14. Disability Policy History and Social Construction of US Disability Policy Current Disability Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy 15. Criminal Legal Policy History and Social Construction of US Criminal Legal Policy Current Criminal Legal Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy 16. Housing and Homelessness Policy History and Social Construction of US Homelessness History and Social Construction of US Housing Current Housing and Homelessness Policy Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy 17. Immigration Policy History and Social Construction of US Immigration Policy Current Immigration Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy

The authors of the book have done a wonderful job. As those who acknowledge white privilege, the work is a testimony to intellectual honesty and an attempt to present the importance of policy in the social work arena. It further seeks to remind a new generation about the place of injustice as the cause of suffering. -- Ezekiel Ette * Draft Chapter Review * Any text attempting to cover the history and current state of social policy in the United States is faced with the Herculean task of balancing depth with breadth, and historical context with accessibility. This textbook provides a clear, comprehensible, organized approach to each of the major areas of social policy relevant to the field of social work. Students of both micro and macro inclinations will be able to trace the development of policy and how policy plays out at all systems levels. The historical context does not shy away from an honest accounting of the social work profession's role in creating and perpetuating various forms of oppression and structural racism. Additionally, the impact of oppression and structural racism is not "whitewashed", as it has been in other texts on the history of social welfare and social policy. -- Jenifer Norton * Draft Chapter Review * This text involves a critical history of the interdependency of social constructionism and social welfare policy from the pluralistic viewpoints of marginalized populations. It makes a definitive argument for viewing historically systemic oppression as a socially constructed racial division, and not just an economic strategy to create and preserve power for White people. It helps the reader to understand how and why isms target cultures of color, gender, and difference, especially because these groups are historically defenseless and congenial. Finally, it demonstrates how the everyday practice of social work can become a catalyst for change when social workers advocate for social justice. -- Cassandra Scott * Draft Chapter Review *