Name: _______________________
Date: __________
Individualized Learning Plan – SWAPPP Concentration
Competency
Practice Behavior
Identify as a professional social
worker and conduct oneself
accordingly (EPAS 2.1.1).
Understand and appropriately
utilize personal and professional
power.
Apply social work ethical
principles to guide professional
practice (EPAS 2.1.2).
Engage in self-reflection as a part of
a critical thinking repertoire for
development of leadership skills
necessary for program planning,
development, and implementation.
Demonstrate the ability to
persuade multiple audiences and
diverse constituents in order to
secure the resources necessary to
implement desired plans.
Demonstrate the ability to
articulate the results of
organizational analyses and
community assessments including
existent policies, plans, and
programs
Apply social work values and ethics
in increasingly complex community
and organizational settings.
Practice Tasks
Apply ethical values and principles
including social justice concepts to
analysis of organizations, programs,
policies, services, and community
problems.
Examine implications of decisions
made in program design in light of
social justice and other potential
ethical dilemmas.
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Analyze ethical dilemmas, social
justice issues, and dynamics of
change in a creative manner,
including challenging oneself as a
reflexive practitioner engaged in
self-learning.
Apply critical thinking to inform
Utilize critical thinking that
and communicate professional
incorporates values, current
judgments (EPAS 2.1.3).
research, and multiple
organizational and community
theories.
Utilize conceptual frameworks for
analysis of different systems,
emphasizing organizations and
communities.
Analyze policies, plans, and
practices in organizations and
identifies the underlying values and
theoretical underpinnings.
Examine strategies for recruitment,
screening, and hiring staff
competent to perform what is
necessary to implement a program.
Engage in diversity and difference Demonstrate a variety of
in practice (EPAS 2.1.4)
leadership styles and skills in
diverse types of organizations and
communities.
Demonstrate an application of
theoretical approaches to
understanding multicultural
settings (e.g. nonprofits, NGOs,
faith-based, public, for profit,
hybrid, feminist, international, etc.)
Collaborate with peers in
organizational, community, and
policy analysis.
Identify the roles and relationships
of community partners and
collaborators, including
populations-at-risk, in program
design.
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Advance human rights and social
and economic justice (EPAS
2.1.5).
Advocate for policies, interventions
and differential strategies to
address the mechanisms of
oppression and discrimination in
communities and organizations.
Identify alternatives to dominant
models, including radical
approaches to social change.
Identify how oppression emerges in
barriers to care for some
populations, including people living
in poverty or coping with a
stigmatized condition.
Engages in research-informed
practice and practice-informed
research (EPAS 2.1.6).
Demonstrate the ability to assess
community and organizational
change needs using a variety of
qualitative and quantitative
methods.
Use research to inform needs
assessment and intervention
planning.
Apply knowledge of human
behavior and the social
environment (EPAS 2.1.7).
Examine different types of needs
(normative, perceived, expressed,
and relative) and various methods
used in assessing needs (e.g.
community forums, nominal group
technique, focus groups, Dephi
technique, surveys, social indicator
analysis, etc.).
Formulate policies, proposals and
plans that address human needs.
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Examine theories from multiple
disciplines used to understand
organizations, and organizational
behavior, comparing and
contrasting their influences on
administration and planning
practice.
Identify how different theoretical
perspectives effect program
development and the actual
delivery of services.
Engage in policy practice to
advance social and economic
well-being and to deliver
effective social work services
(EPAS 2.1.8).
Use conceptual frameworks to
analyze current social problems
within policy, community and
organizational arenas.
Integrate policy analysis into
program planning, including
theoretical underpinnings to policy.
Address policy, community and
organizational feasibility, along
with credibility of potential host
organizations.
Respond to contexts that shape
practice (EPAS 2.1.9).
Design and develop effectivenessbased programs.
Apply the concept of
multiparadigmatic practice to
analyze the underlying assumptions
of different models and approaches
used in organization and
community practice, including
contextual realities.
Identify and select intervention
strategies in the context of need,
including posing critical questions
about feasibility of planning and
program development.
Recognize and identifies the
structural issues and social
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Engage, assess, intervene, and
evaluate with individuals,
families, groups, organizations
and communities [EPAS 2.1.10 (a)
– (d)].
stratification dynamics related to
barriers to service/program access
for populations at risk.
Develop program goals and
objectives that are consistent with
organizational and external context
for fit between program design and
organizational structure with
consideration of target population
diversity and sensitivity, and
feasibility of delivering a program
in a policy, community, and
organizational context.
Identify how proposals (RFPs) are
being used to guide development
of a program proposal worthy of
funding.
Develop and maintain positive
relationships with stakeholders.
Apply different theoretical lenses
for the assessment, planning, and
program development.
Develop comprehensive program
plans based on an assessment
process that incorporates
stakeholders and considerations of
feasibility.
Evaluate the implementation,
outcomes and impacts of human
services policies, plans, and
programs, and make informed
recommendations for change.
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Student Signature
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Instructor Signature
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Date
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Field Department/Liaison
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