Full Description
The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field of social work. GCSWI calls for bold innovation and collective action powered by proven and evolving scientific interventions to address critical social issues facing society. The GCSWI aims to identify and find solutions for some of the most persistent social issues, tackling problems such as homelessness, social isolation, mass incarceration, family violence, and economic inequality.
Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society is an edited book that presents the foundations of the GCSWI, laying out the start of the initiative and providing summaries of each of the twelve challenges. The 13 main chapters that form the core of the book, one on each of the Grand Challenges, are written by the primary research teams who are driving each GC project.
The second edition includes updates on the initiatives laid out in the first edition and sets new goals for the next five years. It also includes new information on the Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism, expanding the social work pipeline, commentaries from leading social work organizations, and how interdisciplinary science can best provide a platform to tackle society's most urgent problems.
This fully updated second edition of Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society is important reading for all practicing social workers.
Contents
CONTENTS
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative
1. Introduction and Updates on the Grand Challenges
2. Ensuring Healthy Development for Youth by Unleashing the Power of Prevention: An Update on Progress and Priorities
3. Close the Health Gap
4. Building Healthy Relationships to End Violence: Broadening the Vision of the Stop Family Violence Grand Challenge
5. Advance Long and Productive Lives
6. Eradicate Social Isolation
7. End Homelessness
8. Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment
9. Harness Technology for Social Good
10. Promote Smart Decarceration
11. Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality
12. Build Financial Capability and Assets for All
13. Achieve Equal Opportunity and Justice
14. Eliminate Racism
15. Conclusion
Commentaries
Framing the Social Policy Agenda for the Future
Appendix 1: Grand Challenges Network Co-Leads
Appendix 2: Sustaining Sponsors of Grand Challenges for Social Work
Appendix 3: Grand Challenges for Social Work: Vision, Mission, Domain, Guiding Principles, & Guideposts to Action
Appendix 4: Progress and Plans for the Grand Challenges
Index
