Objective: Advance human rights and social, economic and environmental justice
[TI-HR] = Trauma-Informed and Human Rights perspective
[TI-HR] Identify examples of social/economic injustice, in the field and ways they are addressed within the system/organization.
[TI-HR] Advocate for client access to the services of social work.
[TI-HR] Student will attend trauma task force meetings to better understand current policy and theory in practice and how it affects clients.
[TI-HR] Recognize the extent to which a culture's structures and values may oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create or enhance privilege and power. Discuss in supervision.
[TI-HR] Communicate the importance of the impact of trauma as fundamental to health and mental health. Discuss examples that relate to work with service population.
[TI-HR] Raise awareness of trauma and it's impact on health, mental health and social well-being by, for example, disseminating educational materials and appropriate resources, presenting information at an agency in-service, etc.
[TI-HR] Student will demonstrate the ability to use policy, research, theory and practice to redress social injustice and human rights violations, i.e. through journaling exercise, in supervision, etc.
[TI-HR] Student will help raise awareness of trauma and its impact on health, mental health and social well by identifying and disseminating relevant materials and resources.
[TI-HR] Student will identify and refer clients to resources that work to ameliorate and alleviate oppressive circumstances of individuals.
[TI-HR] Student will conduct a literature review of trauma-informed community level care and then use this literature as a base to understand client issues. Student will work with the local (group) population to develop and implement a capacity building plan in order to assist them with organizing, uniting and building the strengths of their community.
[TI-HR] (Example of site specific) Student will research how aging in place is conducive to the protection of individual human rights and be able to clearly articulate the ways in which placement in a nursing facility or indeed any forced move may be traumatic as well as an encroachment.
[TI-HR] Student will identify and convey an understanding of community factors that promote racism, sexism, ageism and homophobia, particularly where these concern consumers of field placement agency.
[TI-HR] Student will research topics of oppression, human rights and social justice and present in individual and/or group supervision on the relevance of these for social work practice on micro (self awareness and client interaction) meso and macro levels.
