Pat Libby has supplied people with a “roadmap” to the method of lawmaking along with her guide The Empowered Residents Information: 10 Steps To Passing a Legislation That Issues to You. The primary couple of chapters present an outline of the method of constructing a legislation and the ten steps for having a profitable lobbying marketing campaign. This permits the reader time to course of the knowledge and have foundational data earlier than diving deeper into the ten steps.
The ten steps are laid out effectively, because the creator goes in sequential order and supplies a great abstract of the earlier step earlier than introducing the subsequent one in the beginning of every chapter. The true-life examples given for every step make utility of the steps simpler. Together with the real-life examples, the creator has added a story of two people who used the ten steps in a real-life citizen-advocacy marketing campaign.
The ultimate chapter supplies the reader with vital particulars on the invoice that was handed associated to this marketing campaign. Pat discusses what to concentrate to, to observe how the invoice was put in force in the best way one supposed it to be. Typically, people might want to monitor a invoice over a number of years.
As I learn this textual content, I requested myself how, when, the place, and why a social employee may implement these steps. CSWE’s Instructional Coverage and Accreditation Requirements (CSWE, 2022), Competency 5, states:
Social staff establish social coverage on the native, state, federal, and international degree that impacts well-being, human rights and justice, service supply, and entry to social companies…. Social staff affect coverage formulation, evaluation, implementation, and analysis inside their follow settings with people, households, teams, organizations, and communities.
As social staff, we problem programs as we advocate for shoppers.
After studying this textual content, the query I ask myself and all different social staff is: How can we not implement these steps? We’re annoyed with programs, shoppers falling by means of the cracks, college students being burdened with debt, low paying jobs, the inequalities that exist, and a lot extra. If we need to really create change, we have to do extra lobbying. We’re change brokers. This textual content units us as much as lead profitable real-life advocacy-campaigns and permits us to show college students easy methods to do the identical.
Reference
CSWE. (n.d.). 2022 EPAS. https://www.cswe.org/accreditation/standards/2022-epas/
Reviewed by Tallie Cassanova, LCSW, QMHP, BSSW Program Director, College of South Dakota.
