CSSW Field Evaluation: Social Enterprise Administration

Columbia School of Social Work
Specialized Year Field Evaluation
Social Enterprise Administration

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Assessment Scale
Use the following scale to assess the student's performance in the nine core areas of social work competency identified by the Council on Social Work Education:
Excellent—Performance is exceptional and the skill is an integrated part of the student's practice
Very Good—Performance is above expectations for students at this level
Good—Performance generally meets expectations for students at this level
Needs Improvement—Performance shows signs of competency, but generally does not meet expectations for students at this level
Unsatisfactory—Performance is unsatisfactory
Not Assessed—Assignment did not provide an opportunity to demonstrate the behavior

Competency 1: Ability to Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior
Social Enterprise Administration 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. Social Enterprise Administration 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. Social Enterprise Administration 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. Social Enterprise Administration 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.
Assess the student's ability to:

Demonstrate professionalism and respect for stakeholders, including clients, client systems, colleagues, partners, communities, and organizations, and, as reflected in the NASW Code of Ethics, they mindfully make professional use of themselves.
Communicate effectively in oral and written modalities in work with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and colleagues.
Interact with clients and client systems in a way that positions themselves as learners and collaborators, and value those with whom they work, appreciating their roles as informants and experts on their own lives and situations.
Develop and critique management functions and service delivery mechanisms and processes to uphold ethical standards and social work values.
Identify potential sources of ethical dilemmas in organizational life and the strategies for confronting the dilemmas.
Effectively negotiate ethical, political, and other contextual issues embedded in the design, implementation, and evaluation of management processes, programs, organizations, and/or social services.
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
Social Enterprise Administration 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). Social Enterprise Administration 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.
Assess the student's ability to:

Identify and address issues of diversity and difference (e.g., 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) that may impact the development and implementation of practices within a social enterprise administration context.
Consider and address management practices derived from social and structural inequities using a respectful, inclusive perspective.
Apply culturally appropriate, evidence-based practice and analytical approaches across multiple organizational systems.
Respect and include diverse individuals and communities in the development and ongoing work of social service programs and organizations committed to social justice.
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
Social Enterprise Administration 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. Social Enterprise Administration 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, Social Enterprise Administration 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.).
Assess the student's ability to:

Analyze, design, implement, and/or evaluate programs to promote human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice and to counter discrimination.
Identify and negotiate multiple sources of power including statutory, informational, economic, and political power, and work to make organizational systems equitable and fair with respect to human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.
Design and administer social enterprises to combat the systemic oppressive conditions which racism and other forms of injustice cause for individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
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
Social Enterprise Administration 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 Social Enterprise Administration practice. Adopting social justice and anti-racist lenses, Social Enterprise Administration 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. Social Enterprise Administration social workers value and promote client participation and leadership in the research process.
Assess the student's ability to:

Use research-based practice models as well as clients' lived experience to guide development of innovative Social Enterprise Administration practice.
Use evidence-based anti-oppression practice in the design, implementation, and management of programs and organizations.
Analyze theoretical and empirical frameworks that explain the causes and consequences of individual experiences (including the social worker's own personal experiences and affective reactions) and their implications for policy and service delivery.
Utilize differential cost analyses in conducting make/buy, keep/stop, and expand/reduce decisions, keeping focus on client and community needs and impacts on client systems.
Partner fully with communities and with members who serve as leaders in research endeavors.
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
Social Enterprise Administration 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. Social Enterprise Administration 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. Social Enterprise Administration social workers also understand the contradictions and paradoxes that may emerge in social policy work at the individual, family, group, organizational, or community level.
Assess the student's ability to:

Identify and critically analyze the relationships of social policies, organizational structures, stakeholders' interests, and their impact on organizations and social program implementation.
Attend to and incorporate all stakeholders' voices and ideas during policy formulation, while remaining mindful of the impact of one's own personal experiences and affective reactions.
Identify, critically analyze, and advocate for policies at all levels to serve the needs of underrepresented and marginalized populations.
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
Social Enterprise Administration 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. Social Enterprise Administration 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.
Assess the student's ability to:

Demonstrate the ability to engage in a variety of relationships and interactions in all areas of practice (micro, mezzo, and macro) and across all system levels (individual, social, and environmental).
Engage with staff members, community constituents, and/or organizations and their staff and representatives in a respectful and professionally self-aware manner.
Discuss legal, policy, and ethical factors to ensure that all potentially relevant factors are covered as critical elements in the development of authentic working relationships (e.g., informed consent, confidentiality, reporting).
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
Social Enterprise Administration 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. Social Enterprise Administration 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.
Assess the student's ability to:

Assess individual and organizational behavior, adopting social justice standards as their basis for assessment.
Identify and critically analyze how their personal experiences and affective reactions may impact their assessment and decision-making.
Design and conduct assessments of the structure, composition, process, and environmental factors that affect organizational and community functioning.
Adopt effective assessment strategies to recruit and maintain employees.
Design and conduct employee performance and staff development assessments.
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
Social Enterprise Administration 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. Social Enterprise Administration 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. Social Enterprise Administration 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.
Assess the student's ability to:

Design and implement social programs that respond to the social and economic needs of stakeholders through diverse and innovative methods utilizing an entrepreneurial, social justice lens.
Adopt social justice approaches to coalition formation to resolve organizational and community problems and achieve positive system change.
Advance the role of organizations in developing sustainable solutions to social welfare needs to enhance the wellbeing of clients and constituencies.
Identify initial intervention steps based on the assessment of an organization or community's problems and goals.
Plan, design, and/or manage social service agencies and enterprises at the individual program level, the organizational level, and the systems level to achieve staff, organizational, and community goals.
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
Social Enterprise Administration 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. Social Enterprise Administration 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.
Assess the student's ability to:

Describe and use program evaluation knowledge and skills that reflect the profession's social justice lens in partnership with communities.
Create and apply evaluative designs that are relevant to the community served.
Apply advanced program and organizational evaluation skills.
Evaluate their work with clients and organizations to arrive at a realistic assessment of their cognitive and affective processes and practice strengths and weaknesses, and their impact on both knowledge and skills.
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:
Pass
Fail