Objective: Engage diversity and difference in practice
[TI-HR] = Trauma-Informed and Human Rights perspective
Understands and adapts her/his practice to the needs of a range of populations.
Directly seek information from clients on their values, goals and views of successful functioning, and adapt interventions accordingly.
[TI-HR] Student will participate and be an active member of peer supervision sessions with social work staff and peers, with diversity and cultural competence, spirituality, sexuality, ethics, grief and trauma as the focus.
Identify organizational policies and dynamics that affect client service, applying information gained in Advanced Year courses. Discuss with field educator strategies to intervene within the organization.
Understand and adapt practice to the needs of population, identifying dynamics within communities that create, foster and promote racism, sexism, ageism and homophobia. Discuss in supervision.
[TI-HR] Student will try to better understand the population by shadowing preventive service workers as they complete home visits; student will then discuss with workers or with field educator specific issues or problems clients are facing, and explore relevance of issues of diversity and oppression.
[TI-HR] Student will research the geography, diversity, politics as well as social and cultural grouping in Buffalo and Erie county, exploring the extent to which aspects of culture can oppress, alienate or create privilege and power. Additionally, student will reflect on his/her own personal privilege and power in supervision.
[TI-HR] Student will explore and learn about Buffalo through a social, political and economical lens in order to understand the lived experience of people that (the agency) seeks to help; student will learn about poverty economic and community development, racial and economic inequities and social injustice related to employment and access to power.
[TI-HR] Student will collect, organize interpret client data while drawing on evidence based practice knowledge as well as theories of human behavior, trauma informed care and human rights.
[TI-HR] Student will understand the importance of differences in life experiences through working with diverse populations while keeping an open mind, and explore related issues in supervision.
[TI-HR] Student will recognize the extent to which cultures and particular values may oppress, alienate, or create power/ privilege in society through discussions with her supervisor when these issues arise, eliminating her own personal biases and advocating for the clients rights within diverse populations.
Student will research the cultural, economic, political and historical influences on the community. Discuss with field educator how this will occur.
