This course is part of the Social Policy for Social Services & Health Practitioners Specialization

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Social Policy for Social Services & Health Practitioners SpecializationColumbia University

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Course 5 discusses policies in four areas: housing, education, healthcare, and immigration, with an optional fifth module in child protection. This course addresses issues of power, oppression, and white supremacy.
-First we’ll look at housing policy, with its contrasting supports for homeowners and renters.  

-Then we’ll interpret the structure that provides education and examine debates about its future.

-The third module will differentiate the issues in the U.S. healthcare system and develop  the structure of public healthcare programs.  

-Next, the course will lay out immigration policies and weigh the push and pull of the debate about immigration reform. 

-The optional fifth module traces the child protection system its beginnings to the present day and appraises the failures and strengths of the system.  
 
The course is part of a sequence in social policy that has an HONORS TRACK. This track will prepare the learner for masters-level work in policy, which involves reading the literature, writing concise summaries and probing critiques.   Over the sequence the learner will develop a policy analysis that will create a foundation for professional policy analyst assignments.

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Social Policy for Social Services & Health Practitioners Specialization

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Approx. 14 hours to complete

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What you will learn

Describe the structures of US policy in each of the course’s domains: Housing, schools, healthcare, immigration and child protection
Explain the issues involved in developing policy in each of the course’s domains: Housing, schools, healthcare, immigration and child protection
Identify the challenges for US policy each of the course’s domains: Housing, schools, healthcare, immigration and child protection
Honors: Develop a policy memo for to demonstrate the learner's professional capacity to professionally interpret finding to decision makers.

Skills you will gain

Formulate practice strategies to overcome the historic biases in social welfare programs
distinguish the values inherent in each social policy initiative
differentiate alternative approaches to social policy problems
Critique components of a social policy based on their effectiveness at meeting the goals stated in the initiative
develop social welfare policy analysis and reform proposals

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Course 5 of 5 in the

Social Policy for Social Services & Health Practitioners Specialization

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English

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John Robertson

Policy Lecturer

School of Social Work, Columbia University in New York City

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Housing and Education

3 hours to complete

10 videos (Total 50 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Week2

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Understanding healthcare delivery in the U.S.

3 hours to complete

12 videos (Total 60 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Week3

Week 3

2 hours to complete

ACA, Medicare, and Medicaid

2 hours to complete

11 videos (Total 42 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

4 hours to complete

Immigration

4 hours to complete

15 videos (Total 81 min), 1 reading, 3 quizzes

15 videos

Introduction2mImmigration Numbers5mImmigration: Benefits & Problems7mCategories of Immigration3mLawful Permanent Resident (LPR)3mImmigration: Temporary Work4mUndocumented Immigrants8mUndocumented Immigrants by Professor Kaushal7mIntegration6mImmigrant & Children6mSpecial Populations5mThe Paradox by Professor Kaushal4mImmigration Reform7mWrap-Up1mPolicy Analysis Project: The Final Policy Memo8m

1 reading

Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement10m

1 practice exercise

Quiz: Module 4 Overview30m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM HEALTH, HOUSING, AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

by MGJan 18, 2021

I learnt what is the social policy and how it works and why it needs to be in working.

by DGFeb 12, 2023

Some of the lectures had such low sound quality, I had to improvise to make it louder.

by RDMay 19, 2019

It has a great outline with direct to the point facts. Making much easier to juggle a busy schedule willing a degree or certificate .

by SWMay 5, 2021

Very informative, particularly when we look at the history of our country's development in these areas.

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About the Social Policy for Social Services & Health Practitioners Specialization

In the U.S., social policy accounts for two-thirds of government spending. Knowing how policies are constructed, what values underlie them, and how they succeed or fail makes everyone more effective at work or in their civic role. This specialization includes an HONORS track in which learners will complete a professional social policy analysis.

Teachers, health care workers, police, and social workers interact with policy daily, but all of us should care about the impact and effectiveness of these programs. Health and mental health programs, education, housing and income supports, pensions, criminal justice services, veterans’ programs, child protective services, and immigration services create a support system all Americans will draw upon. They also reveal Americans' ethics and values, indicating how we regard and care for our most vulnerable. This specialization will explore the size, structure, and outcomes of U.S. social policy by -comparing it with the approaches of other developed nations. -examining the history of our efforts and probing population effects that shape policy. -looking deeply into support for families in general, poor families, people with disabilities, and the elderly. -mapping out existing policies for housing, education, healthcare, immigration and child welfare. -addressing issues of power, oppression, and white supremacy. By the end of the course the learner will be at home working in, utilizing, and voting in the U.S. welfare system.

Social Policy for Social Services & Health Practitioners

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