SOCIAL SERVICES
Preventing the need for social services as well as improving social services is a major goal of social workers. Social workers are on the front lines in a variety of social service entities, and many social workers choose the field of child welfare. Childhood trauma can affect an individual’s health across their lifespan.
Consider a discovery about the effect of childhood trauma and dialogue with your colleagues about how this knowledge of childhood trauma might affect the provision of social services.
TO PREPARE
Watch the Nadine Burke Harris: How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime.
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Explain how the repeated stress described in the video affects how you view policies related to one of the following social services:
Financial services
Hunger services
Employment services
Describe one social service that might improve early intervention to counter or mitigate repeated stress at an early age.
Explain why the social service you recommend might make a difference.