Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World

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).

Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors Chapter 1 * Social Work: A Value-Based Profession in Historical Context Policy Practice and Me: A Social Work Perspective A Brief History of U.S. Social Welfare Policy Current Context Chapter 2 * How Policy is Created and Influenced The Policy Process Intervention Methods: How to Engage with the Policy Process Chapter 3 * Practical Theories for Understanding and Analyzing Policy Background on Vaccines Policy Analysis Theories Interest Group Politics Using Frameworks for Analysis Application of Theories Chapter 4 * Family Policy History and Social Construction of U.S. Family Policy Current Family Policy Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy Chapter 5 * Child Welfare Policy History and Social Construction of U.S. Child Welfare Policy The Modern Child Welfare System Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy Chapter 6 * Early Childhood Education and Care Policy History and Social Construction of U.S. Early Childhood Education and Care Current Child Care and Early Education Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy Chapter 7 * Education Policy, Kindergarten Through High School History and Social Construction of U.S. Education History of Education in the U.S.: Timeline of Federal Education Actions Current Education Policy Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy Chapter 8 * Higher Education Policy History and Social Construction of U.S. Higher Education Current Higher Education Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy Chapter 9 * Work and Employment Policy History and Social Construction of U.S. Work and Employment Current Work and Employment Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy Chapter 10 * Policy for Older Adults History and Social Construction of U.S. Policy for Older Adults Current Policies for Older Adults Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy Chapter 11 * Health Policy History and Social Construction of U.S. Health Care Current Health Policy Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy Chapter 12 * Disability Policy History and Social Construction of U.S. Disability Policy The Early U.S. History of Disability Social Security Act and Disability Rights Movements Begin Current Disability Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy Chapter 13 * Criminal Justice History and Social Construction of U.S. Criminal Justice Policy Current Criminal Justice Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy Chapter 14 * Housing and Homelessness Policy History and Social Construction of U.S. Homelessness The Progressive Era: Homelessness and the "Married Vagabond" History and Social Construction of U.S. Housing Current Housing and Homelessness Policy Defining Homelessness Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy Chapter 15 * Immigration Policy History and Social Construction of U.S. Immigration Policy Current Immigration Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy Chapter 16 * Environmental Policy The History and Social Construction of U.S. Environmental Policy Current Environmental Policies Policy Informed by Alternative Lenses Opportunities for Advocacy Glossary References Index

"I want to use Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World in my social policy courses as soon as possible! The authors do not artificially compartmentalize issues, such as housing instability, that are in practice deeply intertwined with issues like poverty, child welfare, and addiction. At the same time, they do not leave the reader in a sea of facts and figures. Instead, they offer vignettes and activities that demonstrate practical ways students can use their knowledge to affect change." -- Linda Houser "The vignettes that start each chapter make the topics come alive. I also liked that each chapter ended with advocacy opportunities. This text connects practice with policy very effectively." -- Vicki Lens, JD; Ph.D.