Description
Establishing rapport, building networks, and creating collaborative partnerships within communities are important components of the work that human service professionals do when advocating for children and their families. For this Assignment, you are going to assume that you are a human service professional working in a community, and advocating for a social issue that impacts children and their families. Your Assignment needs to address the components listed below.
- Describe a fictional community, or one that already exists, and assume that you are doing work within this community as a human service professional. In your description, provide information related to the demographics of the community, the history of the community, the community culture, and the economics of the community.
- Determine what type of social issue related to children and their families that the community is struggling with, and that you will be advocating for as a human service professional.
- Based on the specific information pertinent to the community that you described, examine ways that you will establish and build rapport with members of the community. In your answer, explore how you will build trust with community members, and how you will involve citizens in building rapport. Make sure the information that you discuss is specific to the social issue you are looking to address.
- Determine how you will build networks in the community that you described which are specific to the advocacy work that you will be doing for the social issue you discussed.
- Assess how you will build collaborative partnerships in the community. If your community is fictional, make up organizations that would be beneficial to partner with. If you are using a real community, research organizations, or other places, that would be beneficial to partner with.
- Justify whether or not you will seek to establish multicultural collaborations in your community. If you do determine these collaborations are appropriate, explore why they are beneficial with regard to your overall goal to advocate for the social issue that you chose.
Your Assignment should reflect professional writing standards using proper tone and language. The writing style should be correct, accurate, and reflect knowledge of the importance of establishing rapport and building networks and collaborative partnerships within a community. The paper should be 3–5 pages, double spaced, and in APA format. You should include a minimum of four reputable references in your paper
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Running head: ESTABLISHING RAPPORT
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Establishing Rapport
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ESTABLISHING RAPPORT
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Description of the Community
St. Ignace area community has a population of 2563 which is the 9696th largest city in
the US. Majority of the people has a median age of 45 which is 13% higher than the Michigan
average of 40. The marriage rate of the population over 15years is 52%. Majority of the people
speak English with a minority speaking Spanish. Most of the people were born in Michigan
while a small number were born out of the state. No person in this community was born outside
the USA, and a significant population was foreign-born. Founded in 1671 by Father Marquette,
the city was one of the old hubs of trade. Its history dates back to the period of continental
glaciation. The community’s Heritage Day Festival indicates the culture and way of life. The
cultural practices involve listening to the drums, participation in dancing, and traditional basketmaking demonstrations among others. The median earning of the majority of the people in the
community is $33,152. Statistics show that St. Ignace has a 14.6% self-employment rate. The
total median income for the people under the age of 25years old is $20,179. Over, the past years,
there has been a decrease in the unemployment rate in the community by 0.7% thus indicating an
improvement in the economic performance.
Type of Social Issue
In many circumstances, the social issue relates to the community’s perceptions such as
attitudes, thoughts, and way of life within the community. Elementary and high school systems
within the community have recorded ...
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