Columbia School of Social Work
 
Specialized Year Practicum Evaluation
 
Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice
 
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Competency 1: Ability to Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior

Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers demonstrate ethical and professional behavior through analyzing and working to transform how micro, mezzo, and macro systems impact each other and individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. They recognize the breadth of leadership and managerial activities and the requisite values, knowledge, and skills that must be demonstrated by human service professionals. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers understand the organizational theories, assumptions, and practices used to address the needs of those who are disenfranchised. This includes advanced knowledge of the essential deliverables of a given organization, including its fiscal, legal, community, and contractual obligations. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers lead change efforts in their organizations, adhering to the ethical and professional standards of the field while working collaboratively with other disciplines and at all organizational levels. This includes specialized knowledge of issues related to human resources development, staff well-being, finances, and the local, state, and federal laws impacting the organization as well as any proposed organizational change. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers also apply advanced critical thinking skills by identifying and analyzing the values and ethics underlying policy choices and they give particular attention to the dynamics of power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP) throughout systems. These concepts transcend individual relationships with clients and encompass a code of behavior and ethics within organizations and communities, and with collaborators. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to demonstrate ethical and professional behavior:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in demonstration of ethical and professional behavior:
 
 
 
 

Competency 2: Ability to Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice

Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers engage in diversity and difference in practice through analyzing and, as needed, working to modify macro social work practice in organizations through an anti-racist lens. They understand the differential core values, norms, and beliefs that may hold explicit and implicit biases against diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in different organizational structures (e.g., nonprofit, government, foundations, for-profit). As they make conscious professional use of self, they acknowledge their personal values, norms, and beliefs, and how these relate to their development as professionals; they are aware of the influence of power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP). Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers understand the diverse variety of interest groups, affinities, and staff categories within an organization and how they are differentially affected by its power and privilege structure, and by individual factors of diversity such as age, class, color, culture, disability and ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration status, marital status, political ideology, race, religion/spirituality, sex, sexual orientation, and tribal sovereign status. They encourage and strengthen the use of self, allowing individuals to integrate their own multicultural perspectives to inform and influence organizational change decisions. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to engage diversity and difference in practice:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in engagement of diversity and difference in practice:
 
 
 
 

Competency 3: Ability to Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice

Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice by analyzing and/or developing tools, strategies, and practices that work towards such ends. They respect, acknowledge, and promote opportunities for marginalized individuals and groups within an organization. They participate in, support, and often lead the development of anti-bias, anti-racist organizational policies and procedures. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers ethically and professionally demonstrate conscious use of self through a power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP) lens, and understand the structure, dynamics, and pace essential to enable change within organizations to achieve more just systems and outcomes. As part of the critical focus in social work on social justice, Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers work to dismantle or change core values, norms, and beliefs that may hold implicit and explicit bias within different organizational sectors (private nonprofit, public governmental organizations, foundations, social enterprises, etc.). Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in advancement of human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice:
 
 
 
 

Competency 4: Ability to Engage In Practice-Informed Research and Research-Informed Practice

Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice by identifying and analyzing the theories and models from research that form the bases of contemporary organizational practice. They synthesize and apply theory and research on human behavior and social environments to the development of skills and knowledge essential to innovative Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice practice. Adopting social justice and anti-racist lenses, Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers make use of research models to help determine best practices for transforming organizational structures that hold explicit and implicit biases. In particular, they look to research and theoretical models that draw on clients' lived experience to identify interventions and services that are most appropriate and beneficial for clients and their communities. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers value and promote client participation and leadership in the research process. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in engagement in practice-informed research and research-informed practice:
 
 
 
 

Competency 5: Ability to Engage in Policy Practice

Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers engage in policy practice focusing on organizational-change policies best suited to effect change. They understand the roles of policies, structures, and client systems and their impact on organizations and service delivery. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers develop and advocate for policies that are most likely to be productive and effective in work with individuals and groups within organizations and communities. They identify and strive to dismantle policies and procedures which are explicitly and/or implicitly biased and models that might favor or disadvantage some individuals and groups. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers also understand the contradictions and paradoxes that may emerge in social policy work at the individual, family, group, organizational, or community level. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to engage in policy practice:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in engagement in policy practice:
 
 
 
 

Competency 6: Ability to Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities by including clients, client systems, and all levels of staff in organizational structures and change processes and plans. They understand the unique contributions of time, social context, constructed reality, self-knowledge, and positionality within an organization as key to the engagement process. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers recognize the importance of building relationships and facilitating interactions in all areas of social work engagement and across all system levels. They understand how to make conscious use of self in engagement with individuals and groups to encourage and support positive system change for the long term. Engagement is practiced within the organization, with clients and client systems, and with other internal and external professionals that impact those relationships and practices. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in engagement with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
 
 
 
 

Competency 7: Ability to Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers assess individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities by determining variables within each that contribute to or hinder change in organizations and systems. Using a social justice lens, they design and conduct assessments of the structure, composition, process, and environmental factors that affect organizational and community functioning. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers understand that assessments at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels all must be tailored to and informed by those being assessed. They understand methods for assessment of the organizational change process and appreciate that a holistic organizational assessment must use a lens of power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP). They understand the importance of conducting assessments with substantive guidance by community stakeholders rather than by top-down dictates. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to assess individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in assessment with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
 
 
 
 

Competency 8: Ability to Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities with a focus on change at the organizational level while understanding impact on all levels of staff and client systems. They understand the unique role of organizations in addressing the social welfare needs of clients, systems, and constituencies. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers understand systemic deficits and develop plans for systemic change interventions to ensure broader societal benefits. They collaborate to develop staff, teams, groups, coalitions, programs, and organizations that can address the specific needs of disenfranchised and marginalized individuals and groups. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers intervene to develop and transform the structure, dynamics, resources, and pace of change to enable equitable, successful, and more just systems and outcomes. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in intervention with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
 
 
 
 

Competency 9: Ability to Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers evaluate practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities, with a focus on understanding organizational impact and effectiveness. They evaluate the efficacy of interventions and programs at the individual, program, and organizational level. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers focus on evaluation of programs, organizations, and systems, in particular their role in combating or perpetuating unequal outcomes for individuals and communities that may be impacted by bias due to age, class, color, culture, disability and ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration status, marital status, political ideology, race, religion/spirituality, sex, sexual orientation, tribal sovereign status, etc. They understand these inequities may impact the development, implementation, and evaluation of practices at the program and organizational level, and that a variety of perspectives, voices, and tools may be needed to effectively determine outcomes and impact. Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship for Social Justice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to evaluate practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in evaluation with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
 
 
 
 
Overall impression of the student's progress and recommendations for future learning goals:
 
 
 
 
Recommended grade: