Individual Presentation Project: Policy Change

“Identify and briefly describe one social policy that impacts service delivery at your agency. What

changes do
you recommend should be made to this policy in order to enhance service delivery?” – Capstone

Guidance
(https://stempel.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/75/2019/03/Capstone-Guidelines-11.2018.pdf
Oral and verbal presentation skills are vital to effective, professional social work practice. Students are
expected to complete a capstone prior to graduation.
Your brief talk will focus on a policye field instructor.
Using PowerPoint, you are asked to address the following areas:

1. Present an overview of your in-depth psychosocial assessment and treatment plan.
   a. In the overview of the assessment, please include:
   • strengths and supports
   • risk factors
   • coping skills
   • the effects of oppression, discrimination, or historical trauma on the client(s)
   b. As one of your slides on assessment, present an eco-map of your client. (Note: Do
   not orally present a detailed assessment, but focus on specific areas: strengths
   and supports, risk factors, etc.)
2. Discuss the theory that guided your assessment and treatment and why that theory was
   chosen.
3. Present an analysis of evidence-based methodologies informing your choice of
   intervention strategies. Refer to and provide at least three (3) peer-reviewed research
   articles supporting your choice.
4. Discuss the evaluation process for this intervention strategy and the intervention’s
   outcomes and overall effectiveness.
5. Link your research-based knowledge on working with diverse populations into your
   discussion of the assessment, intervention, and/or evaluation.
6. Identify and briefly describe one social policy that impacts service delivery at your
   agency. What changes do you recommend should be made to this policy in order to
   enhance service delivery?
7. Analyze the professional challenges that you encountered during this internship; include
   challenges related to social work values and ethics.
8. Select one Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) competency and discuss how
   you demonstrated attainment of that competency in your practicum.
   The presentation should not exceed twenty (20) minutes. Ten (10) additional minutes are
   reserved for feedback from the faculty. You will not receive your score at that time.

Sample Solution