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Assignment Overview
This work should build on the previous components of this research project, where you identified a social problem and selected a federal policy that affects it.
Once social workers have located a policy that impacts a social problem, the next step is to analyze the policy's development and potential impacts.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAs and practice behaviors:
- EPA 2.1.8: Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services.
- PB 2.1.8.A: Analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance social well-being.
- Related Assignment Criteria:
- 1. Analyze the development of a chosen policy.
- 2. Evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of a policy.
- 3. Describe the policy constraints that address a problem for the chosen population.
- 4. Recommend new or amended policies that would improve a current policy, providing a clear rationale and sufficient scholarly support.
- Related Assignment Criteria:
- PB 2.1.8.A: Analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance social well-being.
Assignment Description
In this assignment, you will analyze the federal policy chosen including the development of the policy and evaluate its effectiveness and feasibility. Remember that the feasibility of a policy relates not only to its economic feasibility, but also to its political and social impact. You will also identify the policy constraints that inhibit the policy from most effectively reaching your targeted population.
Use your Social Work Speaks Policy textbook and National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics to guide your analysis. Continue to consult the Library of Congress, the Government Accountability Office, public policy analysis research and reports, and other peer-reviewed research to support your analysis.
Assignment Instructions
To complete this assignment:
- Analyze the development of your chosen federal policy. In your analysis, consider these components:
- What are the goals of the policy? How well have the goals been met?
- Does the policy seem to ignore, impede, or strengthen the social functioning of the target population? To what extent does the policy meet or improve the social values of the target population?
- To what extent does the policy adhere to best practice ethics and best practice standards? If the outcome of your analysis is that best practice ethics and standards are not being adhered to, include that information in your analysis as well.
- What are the implications connected to the social justice problem that your chosen policy addresses?
- Evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of the policy. Consider how well the policy has met the needs of your target population and to what extent it improves the social justice problem you initially researched.
- Is the politically, economically, and administratively feasible?
- Does the policy adequately address the problem it was created to solve, or does it further oppress the target population? Does the policy improve conditions or further exacerbate the situation?
- Identify the policy constraints that inhibit the policy from addressing the problem for the chosen population. Have other constraints arisen since the passage of the policy that have made conditions worse or better for the chosen population?
- Propose recommendations for a new or amended policy based on your policy analysis. Support your recommendation with a clear rationale and scholarly, peer-reviewed literature.
Submit your completed assignment by the end of the week.
Remember that your instructor will be providing feedback on your assignments. Use that feedback to improve the content of your Federal Policy Analysis course project.
Additional Requirements
The assignment you submit is expected to meet the following requirements:
- Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards.
- Cited resources: Minimum of five scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years.
- Length of paper: Four to six double-spaced, typed pages.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point
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Introduction
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is one of the most controversial
policies in the history of U.S internal aid programs. It’s now more than twenty years since the
famous TANF policy dominated the headlines and brought hope the poor and needy families in
the U.S. Up to date there is very little that the policy has achieved and has left those concerned
wondering how to achieve the objectives of the policy. Initially, the policy would offer cash and
other financial assistance to needy and poor families as well as offering a range of subsidized
services to genuine low-income earners. The policy has achieved some of its objectives and fails
to deliver a few of its promises as well for the last twenty years (Falk & United States, 2008).
This policy was once considered as a game changer for low-income American citizens that has
not been the case. The purpose of this paper is to discuss TANF policy with respect to what it has
achieved since its inception, what is yet to be achieved under this policy, and but not limited to
recommendations for its improvements.
TANF has achieved to some extent what it intended to for the twenty years that it has
been in place. Its achievements are in reference to cash assistance, block grants, work
participation rate, and also its role during the great recession. These are also the basic
components of the policy as discussed below;
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Block grants
Initially this program was under Aids to families with Dependent Children (A...
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