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Social Welfare Policy for a

Sustainable Future
Purpose of text and course, to view society in
terms of sustainability

Sustainability of government practices,


natural resources, social institutions, laws

Look at practices that were not sustainable


and changedfor example, slavery,
sharecropping, civil war, inequality
PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL WELFARE
CHAPTER 1: Social Work and Social Policy
Sustainability

Color green
Policy aspect of sustainability; meet
the needs of all the people
Economic sustainability
Environmental
Cultural sustainability
Course Takes Global Perspective
Welfare policies in global context
[Oprah in Denmark, 18 minutes
http://vimeo.com/28851587]
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/and-the-happiest-place-on-ea
rth-is/
]
Policies and cultural values
Global interconnectedness:
Ebola
Stocks
Global markets
Products
Pollution, war
What Is Social Policy?
Societys planeducation, health care, crime
prevention, child care

Providing for the people with special needs

Social policy and social work


[social work as applied, vs. psychology,
sociology, criminology]
Globalization
Positive aspects
Negative aspects
World banksIMF, World Bank
Structural adjustment of nations
in debt [austerity]
Shift in power from nations to
corporations
International Social Work
Practice with migrants, refugees
Conferences
Travel abroad to volunteer
Social work student in Nicaragua
Why travel or study abroad
Key Terms
Worldview vs. world view
Welfare
Welfare state
Power
Person-environment focus
Systems theory
Empowerment
Social work imagination
Critical thinking
Social Work Profession
Shift in power to business, for-profit
motives
Risks to social work today [budget cuts,
declassification of jobs, client poverty]
NASW and advocacy
Reduce gun violence
End police brutality
Promote marriage equality
Lessen gap rich and poor
Economic Exploitation
Crash of capitalism led to more; less
regulation of banks, corporations
[Sicko--https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=UReMPrjMT9E ]
Rise of Tea Party Movement, 2010
against big government
Occupy Wall St.
Exploitation of workers
Exploitation of physical environment
Unintended Consequences
of Policies
Overuse of antibiotics
Pesticide use
Kudzu
Deinstitutionalization of mental patients
[OxyContin prescriptions]
[medical ads on TV
ad about nature drug http://theshrug.com/this-
is-the-best-drug-commercial-you-will-ever-
see/#J2v3xcIsXpIqM1M6.01
Fight against Russia in Afghanistan]
CHAPTER 2:
Historical Foundations
of Social Welfare Policy
History of the people
Change through conquest and technology
Feudalism, 1066, Norman Conquest
Technologies:
Plow and oxen[land enclosures UK]
Serfdom affected
Land sales led to money exchange and
capitalism
Water mills and steam engines
[Cotton gin; Automation; Computers]
The Black Death
Plague, 1348

Scapegoating of beggars, Jews, Muslims,


women for next 300 years

Worker decline led to new laws, technologies


Impact of Martin Luther
95 Theses, 1517
[Henry VIII to divorce Catherine of Aragon,
brothers wife]
Protestant Reformation
Vocation as a calling
Abolition of monasteries
[Literacy and Protestant dissent; to New
World]
American Experience
Mistreatment of Natives
Pilgrims vs. Puritans
City upon a Hill
Deserving and undeserving poor
British poor laws; 1601 under
parish; 1834, indoor relief
Workhouses
American Revolution
Over economic interests, not
ideology
U.S. Constitution vs. French
Constitution
Slavery accepted, no guarantees of
welfare rights
First 10 amendmentsdue process,
Bill of Rights
Protestant Ethic and American
Exceptionalism
Calvinism
Individual achievement and work ethic
(independence, social mobility, moralism,
nuclear family, equal opportunity)
Benjamin Franklin
Slavery and indentured servants
Biblical quotes for and against slavery
Free persons of color
American IndiansAndrew Jackson removed
Trail of Tears, 1838
Civil War
600,000 men
Over states rights
Abolitionist movement, Quakers
Cotton trade
Slavery not sustainable, morally,
economically
Reconstruction
Ex-slaves on the roadFreedmens Bureau
Early Welfare Programs
Ursuline Sisters
Outdoor reliefin the home
Indoor relief
Dorothea Dix, reformer, got no help at federal
level
Impact of Industrial Revolution1700s UK;
1800s U.S.
Social Darwinism
EuropeBismarck
U.S. charity organizations
Progressive Era
1900 to World War I
Charity Organization Societies
Deserving poor
Volunteers, Friendly Visitors
Mary Richmond
Settlement House Movement
From EnglandToynbee Hall
Hull House
Immigrant work: nurseries, arts, sports, clubs
Advocacy: child labor laws, Juvenile Court
Emergence of Social
Work
Concern with structural barriers
Richmond professionalized the field
Amsterdam, first school of social work
Social work,
a general term
ecosystems concepts
Impact of Flexner, 1915
Freudianism
Jane Addams and Alice
Paul
Jane Addams, Mother of Social Work
Quaker upbringing
opposed World War I [DAR removed her]
Nobel Peace Prize
Alice Paul, suffragist
Social work background, settlement house work
Organized huge parade at time of Woodrow
Wilsons
inauguration; 26 floats
Racism and Anti-Immigrant
Sentiment
Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
Anti-drug laws; Harrison Act, 1914
Laws against marijuana where Mexicans were
Impact of distillation of alcohol
[Prohibition, 1919-1933 anti-Catholic
Orphan trains]
Welfare Developments
Widows pensions
Child protection laws
1920s and stock market crash
[Marxists and Huey Long]
Franklin Roosevelts New Deal, 1933
WPA: built bridges, dams, [collected slave narratives]
Henry Hopkins of Iowa; emergency relief
Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor
Had worked at Hull House
Social Security Act, 1935
Government Programs,
1930s
ADC: Aid to Dependent Children
Reliance on federal government
No health care due to influence of AMA
Social Security Act, 1935
Southern Democrats
Omission of servants, farm workers
World War II and 1950s
Economic boom
Forced assimilation of Native groups
Australia
U.S., Canada
Japanese Americans
Economic prosperity from the war
Cold war and McCarthyism
Women of Social Work
Irena Sendler

Katherine Kendall

Sattareh Farmaian: Daughter of


Persia
Jim Crow Laws

Henry Louis Gates


http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/unlocking-deval-
patricks-past-autosomal-dna/12759/
Outgrowth of economic conditions
End of Reconstruction
The Maid Narratives
Memories of women from Waterloo and Des Moines
Life under segregation in Mississippi
[Elra Johnson at 100;
http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/article_e1a3b716-0f44
-11df-8a03-001cc4c03286.html
]
Sharecropping
Postwar Administrations
Eisenhower
[integrated public schools
1955 Montgomery bus boycott
Long Walk Home:
http
://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi9556
46233
]
Martin Luther King and Gandhis tactics
Kennedyfight against organized crime
Civil Rights Movement [on next slide]
Civil Rights Movement
Roy Wilkins and King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=WIgUaYGTjYk

L.B. Johnson
War on poverty
Medicaid, Medicare: signed into law, 1965
War in Vietnam: anti-war movement, 1970s
Developments in the
1970s
Civil rights for women, other groups
Backlash against progressivism
Nixon
Reagan, 1980
Think tanks
Richest: from 70% tax bracket to
38%
Clinton and G.W. Bush
Welfare reform 1996, TANF
Attempt at health care
[Bush9/11 and attack on Iraq for
WMD; federal deficit] recession of
2007]
Obamachange we can believe in
Recession, home foreclosures
ACA
Trends in Social Work
Activism
Agenciesprivatization
Idealism
Social work imagination lives on
Ecosystems framework [Americas Lost
Landscape]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMDZ5GTQKhQ
Social and natural environment
Sustainability
Global social work: Ghana
Social Work in the UK
Politically oriented
Poor Law of 1601; centralization
Poor Law of 1834
Work houses
less eligibility
Influence of Charles Dickens
Reforms after World War II
Social work educationanti-oppressive focus
Pendulum Swings
1920strickle down theory
1930s: progressive
1950s: conservative
1960s-1970s
1980s: conservative
CHAPTER 3
Purpose and Structure of Social Welfare Policy

Quote: Eisenhowerno political party would


dare attack social security

Chapter starts with religious traditions related


to social welfare and sustainability
Religious Traditions
Hinduism (1750 BCE)
Duties;
Gandhi; natureall life
Buddhism
compassion for the poor
respect for all life
Judaism
hospitality
bounty of the earth
Religious Traditions
continued
Christianity
parables: help the poor
peacemakers
Constantine legalized Christianity
Public survey U.S.
73% actively practice
20% no affiliation
Other Religious Traditions
Confucianism
China, South Korea
Islam
Muhammad, died 632 CE
Allah
Koranincome to poor; social reforms
Native Americans
communal
respect for Mother Earth; Medicine Wheel
Socialism
Karl Marx
labor parties in Europe
Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialist
World War I; Marxism strong
community organizing
Care vs. Cure
Residual or individualistic approach to welfare
Institutional approach
Norway
[lessons from Norway: [This Country Beats France]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4L6-0WRfSA ]
paid maternity, paternity leaves
modesty and equality
child orientedIndependence Day
outlawed corporal punishment of children
nature lovers
Parliament; criminal justice system
American Exceptionalism
Sense of superiority
Work ethic, punitive aspect
Equal opportunity, not equality
[Right wing media
Fox TV on the Netherlands http://thesocietypages.org/socim
ages/2012/02/01/fox-versus-the-netherlands/
]
Social mobility as value, and decline
in
Rise of the Corporation
Film by Bakan, 2005
14th amendment meant for rights of former
slaves (not deprived of life, liberty, to have
due process) [Citizens United]
Freedoms for corporations
NRA
Pharmaceutical companies
The Corporation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMNZXV7
jOG0
Right Wing Trends
G.W. Bush reduced top tax rate to 35%
15% on stocks
Earned income tax credit
Housing crisis
Privatization
Charter schools
http://billmoyers.com/episode/public-schools-for-sale/
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
stand your ground laws; charter schools
weakening of unions
Chapter 4
Environmental Sustainability and the Social Work
Profession
Definition of sustainability
Chapter shows many practices today
that are unsustainable
Use of ecosystems theory
Importance of preserving our
resources
War against Nature to Concern for
the Environment
Attempts to conquer nature
Jane Addams work in Chicago
Focus on economic sustainability after Great
Depression
Rachel Carsons 1962 Silent Spring
Urged restrictions on DDTspray against
mosquitoes
Author labeled a Communist
Marked the start of environmental movement
Ecosystems Concepts
Person-environment conceptualization of
social work
Interactionism
1980s Earth First movement
Al Gores Inconvenient Truth on global
warming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu6SE5TYrCM
Planet in Crisis
GDP measures dont count loss of soil,
water
Depleted resources
One billion lack access to water
Deforestationdecline rainfall
Loss of biodiversity
Environmental Damage
Money toward military; 6% toward
environmental damage
[land mines; war refugees]
Unintended consequences of growth
Polluted air, water
Oil spills, such as BP disasterimpact on
birds, fish
Nuclear explosion in Japan from earthquake,
tsunami
Green revolution to feed the world
[war on drugs; war in Iraq]
Climate Change
Human-made
Heat wavesdrought
Melting of polar ice cap
Rising sea levels
Solutions
Mass transit
Pollution controls
Maintain forests, reduce over fishing
Empower women
Celebrate the earths bounty: Kwanzaa; Norway
Population Control
Has doubled and reached 7 billion over last 50
years
Lopsided male/female ratio
China 108 men to 100 women
107 in India
Birth control
Unsafe abortions68,000 women die every
year (UN)
Global gag order
Industrial Agriculture
Monocultural agriculture
Plant diversity to retain nutrients
Use of antibioticsfatten animals, kill germs
Resistance in bacteria
23,000 die of hospital infections
[farming in Denmark, no antibiotics]
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6195682n
Monsanto and Agri-
Business
Monsantosoybeans and genetically modified
corn to handle Roundup to kill weeds
stronger weeds; superbugs
[Food, inc.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKYyD14d_0
[Gasland trailer, fracking
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&i
on=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=gasland%20trailer
]
Waterlack of access to safe water
CHAPTER 5: Poverty and Inequality
Pope Francistrickle down not working
Social work to enhance peoples well-being and
meet basic needs
Relative vs. absolute poverty
Poverty line based on cost of food, not rent, day
care
Food insecurity
Increase among very poor
Since Recession of 2008-2009
Relates to high unemployment
Job loss in economy
Growing Inequality
Below the poverty line (food costs times 3;
1/3 of expenses)
22% before 1959
11% 1973
15% 2013
Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century, 2014
Rich get richer
Relates to taxation and finance
Poverty and Class
[Diane Sawyer, Appalachia]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dXPuh15Vmc
Class & Success
Poverty
Distribution of wealthgap rich and poor within
countries and between countries
Box 5:1Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes

http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm
Poverty line--$18,810 family of 4, 12.5% in poverty
[2013-15,500 family of 2; 15% in poverty; 44%
single black parents vs 22.5%whites]
War against the poorlack of living wage
Inequality Increases
Food stamp reductions
Welfare reform
Welfare for the rich
Tax policy
Tax cutsstockholders pay only at 15% level
Top taxable rate33%, was 50%1981 [90%
1950s; 77% until Reagan; now 39.6%]
[20131% owns 37% of wealth, 22% of income,
around $500,000]

Robert Reich
http://www.examiner.com/article/robert-reich-expla
ins-income-inequality-and-the-economy-two-minutes-
video
Depression vs. Great
Recession
In recession, many protected by
temporary use of credit cards
Credit card charges reduced to
around $7,000 in 2012
More social insurance programs in
place
Social Insurance
Programs
Social Security Act, 1935
1939 survivor benefits added
Payroll tax today is 12.4%; 2.9% Medicare
Employer pays half
People pay on first $118,500 for social
security (2013)
Get full social security payment at age 66 or
67 if born after 1959
Facts about Social
Security
Major source of income for older adults
Protection from long-term disability
Fewer to pay in by 2033, will be 2 workers per
recipient
Solution: remove the cap on high income
Social security unrelated to national debt
Attacks as an entitlementused as negative
term
Veterans Benefits, SSDI, and
Unemployment Insurance
Veterans benefits: from 1776; health benefits
and disability pay
SSDI: Social Security Disability Insurance
Introduced in 1954
Requirementworker who has paid into social
security no longer able to work
Unemployment benefits:
Job lost through no fault of the worker
Only for limited time26 weeks; must search
for employment
Public Assistance
Programs
Stigmatized; means-tested
TANFClinton, 1996
Only paid work counts
5 years maximum
Most are single mothers
SNAP
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Food stamps, 1964
Low income family of 4--$668/month
[Walmart tells workers to apply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiSmlmXp-aU ]
Public Assistance Programs
continued
Earned Income Tax Credit, 1975, President
Ford
Up to $6,000 for persons with 3 children
Must work and file taxes

SSI: Supplemental Security Income


Persons with disabilities who cant work
When turned away from income for addictions
diseases people looked to SSI for mental
disorders
Chapter 6: Minority Groups and the
Impact of Oppression
Economic exploitation of minority
groups
What is privilege?an unearned
advantage
Mullalys list of privilege by younger
people compared to very old people:
Not seen as a burden
Not shouted out or babied
Privilege continued
As U.S. citizen [speaking English as privilege]
White privilege
renting a house
treatment when shopping
Police treatment
Foreign countries where people get cosmetic
surgery
[Jane Elliot https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Ml7eEklNwNE]
Privilege continued
Male privilege
can dominate without criticism
dont change name upon marriage [childrens
surnames]
paid more
Heterosexual privilege
not as subjected to bullying
good fit with religious beliefs
acceptance of partner
not persecuted as in many foreign countries
Intersectionality
Examples: race and poor together; woman
with disability
Research of Devah Pager: applicants with
criminal records
Criminal justice system
The New Jim Crow; Michelle Alexander
School to prison pipeline
Systemic Oppression
Women earn 77% of mens pay
Minorities and poverty, unemployment
War on drugs
Asians earn less considering their
education
Environmental oppression
Cancer alley
9th ward in New Orleans
Civil Rights Issues
Civil rights vs. human rights
Womens rights
Civil Rights Act and sex
Affirmative action vs. gender-blind
Backlash against affirmative action
child custody battles [sameness vs. equality]
women and crime
drug tests for women on TANF
attacks on Planned Parenthood
LGBT Rights
Repeal of Defense of Marriage Act; struck
down by Supreme Court, 2013
Repeal of Dont ask; dont tell, repealed by
Obama, 2010
Gay marriage in countries in Western Europe
and Latin America
[Update to textnow legal in all states]2014,
32 states have same-sex marriage
Immigration Rights
NAFTAcheap produce in Mexico;
migration North
Industrys desire for cheap labor but not
full citizenship rights
Undocumented workers, denial of welfare
Deportation; [PostvilleGuatemala, PBS,
15 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=UGdvv4dwzIA]
Women Worldwide
Dowry deaths India8,000 per year
Sex trafficking
China
Child brides
Rape and domestic violence
PART II POLICIES
Chapter 7, Child Welfare
Chapter organized around principles of
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989; 7
clusters: (3rd) treated without physical harm [not
to hit children](4th)protection of rights in the
family; (physical protection [against guns
thousands killed each year]against trafficking, to
know about birth(5th)to health and welfare;
(6th)education, leisure;(7th) rights in juvenile
court; as refugees
[Education in Finland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvBYJBTKRn4 ]
Impact of UN
Convention
Indianew laws for marriage at 18
Safe house for children
U.S.no execution of children
[Norwaycourt rules]
Ethical issue: parents rights vs. child
protection
[Why U.S. wont ratify]
Violation of Rights
Gun deaths of children (3,000 children killed by
handguns each year)
NRA $300 million budget
Stand Your Ground Laws
Corporal punishmentsince 2000 against the law
in Sweden
27 countries in EU have outlawed
research shows later aggression
viewed as form of abuse
Child Maltreatment, DHHS
78% neglect
18% physical abuse
9% sexual abuse
44% white
22% Hispanic
21% African American
4% mixed race
Statistics, DHHS
Maltreatment relates to poverty1 in 5
children in poverty
In 2012, 1,640 children killed, most under age
3
70% from neglect
38% white
32% African American
15% Hispanic
Relates to poverty: 1 in 5 children in poverty
8.5% received services
South Korea: boxed reading
Low birth rate
New policieschild care support,
maternity leave
Money for home care
Rigid gender roles
Amnesty International
Report on child soldiers

Displaced children
CHAPTER 8 Sustainable
Health Care Policies

Chapter looks at the history of health care


reform and the Affordable Care Act

Health care not as right in the U.S.


Treatment more profitable than prevention
Decline in doctors pay
History of Health Care
Reform
New Deal and AMA
Medicare under Johnson, funded directly by
federal government
Clinton initiativebig ads against
2009: 45,000 deaths due to lack of insurance
Solution: expand Medicare; single payer plan
Obstacles to Change
Private insurance; high drug costs
HMOs through employer
Reduction in hours worked
Outsourcing of manufacturing due to
health care costs
Expenses of U.S. Health
Care
Drug ads only in the U.S.
Health care 17.6% of GDP in U.S.
Netherlands 12%
Most others 9.5%
Disparities in Health Care
African American life expectancy 8.3
years shorter than that of white men
Black infants have twice the infant
mortality rate of whites
Indian reservations, poor federal
funding; hazardous waste dumping
Passage of the ACA
Need for health care: 2/3rds of bankruptcies in 2007 related to
medical crisis
Loss of health insurance after illness
48 million uninsured [under ACA, 33 million, from 17-12%]
Obama could have looked to Canada, France, UK
{in Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rae0PIlv0Ng ]
Passed in 2010 with no Republican votes
Individual mandate ruled Constitutional by the Supreme Court,
2012 [2015 update, Supreme Court ruled subsidies applied to
all states, whether exchanges or not]
However, Court ruled that states not required to expand
Medicaid
Facts on Lobbying
[Lobbying by pharmaceuticalsover $21
million. Drug prices rise by 17% per year
2013health care industryover $5
billion since 1998
3 times the amount of the military
industrial complex and oil companies.
Includes nursing homes, pharmaceuticals.]
ACA continued
Cant deny coverage for chronic diseases
Children covered on parents policy until age
26
Medicaid expansion in 26 states
Choices:
Bronze pays 60% of costs; low premium, high
deductible
Silver pays 70%
Gold pays 80%
Platinum pays 90%; high premium, low
deductible
ACA continued
Subsidies available at middle class level for
premiumsaround $150 per month, but
probably not in states that dont have their
own exchanges
U.S. Supreme Court to decide
Must pay the deductible before the insurance
kicks in so might be thousands of dollars
Case studyboxed reading, What the ACA
Means to Me
Disability Policy
Trend toward mainstreaming in
school and elsewhere
ADA, 1990, a non-discrimination act
View from Chinaexclusion
China now has ratified the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities
The U.S. did not ratify
World Situation
Reading on malaria (kills 600,000 per year)
Leading cause of death for African children
under 5
Peace Corps volunteer, Zambia, mosquito nets,
spraying
Ebola outbreakdeaths of thousands in Liberia,
Sierra Leone, Nigeria
Displaced people in Afghanistan, Iraq from the
war
Refugees in Syria
Global View
Women with Disabilities in Ghana by Dr. Tina
Naami
These women discriminated against in
education, employment
Dr. Naami worked for British organization to
help start businesses
U.S. Rankings on
Outcomes
48th for infant mortality rates (Central Intelligence Agency,
2012),
38th in life expectancy, which was age 78 in 2010, compared to
83 for Japan and 79 for Cuba and Chile (World Bank, 2011),
48th for maternal mortality rates (Central Intelligence Agency,
2011)
Number one in small arms ownership, a fact that is related to
the high homicide and suicide rate (Small Arms Survey, 2007),
7th for an obese and overweight population at 80.7% (World
Health Organization Global Infobase, 2010), and
The U.S. has the highest per capita expenditures on health care
in the world at $8,362 with only Norway close behind (World
Bank, 2011).
Chapter 9, Mental Health
Policy
Chapter discusses persons with mental
illness, suicide, and people with co-occurring
disorders

Biological aspects of mental illness


Biological Aspects of Mental
Disorders
Schizophreniadopamine
PTSDstems from external cause
Size of hippocampus in brain is reduced
[research now says persons with smaller
hippocampus may be more susceptible to
PTSD]
DSM-5 and trauma: arousal, guilt
Stress from PTSD and addiction
History of Treatment for Mental
Illness
Mental asylums
Deinstitutionalization movement
Chronically homeless population
Half have substance use disorders
Subject to victimization
Transitional housing
Housing First or supportive housing
Treatment of Persons with Mental
Illness
Prisons are the new mental asylums
16% of inmates have serious mental illness
Solutions:
Drug courts, mental health courts
SWAA works with families; Kensington
organization
Harm reductionBritish approach
War Trauma
Half of children exposed to war get PTSD
Relates to acting out behavior as in Bosnia
Afghanistan and opium addiction of
children at very high rate
Cambodiahalf the people, depression
Sexual assault of U.S. women by fellow
soldiers, 20% on active duty report
victimization
1% of men on active duty victimized
LGBT Youth and Trauma
Homelessness in runaway kids
Survival sex
Suicide risk
Trauma-informed care for juvenilesprevent
triggers
Yelling
Negative labels
Overuse of medications, solitary confinement,
restraints
Need for sense of safety
Chapter 10 Sustainable Policy for
Older Adults
Chapter looks at population shifts,
innovative programs, ageism
View of Older Population as Probem
By 2030, 1 in 5 over 65 in U.S.
Caregiving roles, voluntary work
Care for grandchildren
Ageism in hiring, media reports
Older American Acts
Area agencies set upsenior centers
Programs to prevent elder abuse
About half of women would be in
poverty without social security
Now around 10% in poverty
Prescription Drug
Coverage
Today, medications for blood
pressure, arthritis, [diabetes,
Parkinsons, appetite, acid reflux,
mood]
Medicare Part D covers only some
percentage of drug medications
Caregiving
Support is minimal
Health problems of family caregivers
Mobility a problem worldwide and fewer
children
Spending in U.S. toward long-term care
centers
Chinachange to nursing home care
Need for data on elder abuse
Chapter 11 Human
Rights
Chapter looks at threats to human
rights
Look at powerlessness of vulnerable
populations
Human rights both a concept and a
reality
Human Rights Violations
Lack of control of access to guns
38,000 gun deaths each year, most
are suicides
Oil companies polluting land
Children sold in prostitution
Founding of United
Nations
1920, League of Nations
1945 50 nations signed the UN
Charter
1948 Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
Threat to human rightswar,
military-industrial complex, arms
trades
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
History from the HolocaustNuremburg Trials
Ethical issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfOgZXIQ
6fo
Political and civil rights (part ratified by U.S.)
Freedom from torture, slavery, arbitrary arrest
Right to seek asylum
Economic and cultural rightseducation,
health care, work and leisure
Box on Ethiopia
Student who lived in refugee camp
Cared for siblings in camp
Worry over where to get food, water
Culture shock in U.S. lack of
neighborly help
Everything paid for
Due Process and Criminal Justice
System
[adversary system vs. restorative justice
English historytrial by ordeal, early
jury, duels
Today-plea bargaining]
Lack of emphasis on rehabilitation
[Mark Umbreit on forgiveness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OU
nOpbmb7g
]
Social Work and Human
Rights
Social work as human rights
profession
Grounds for social change and
protection of minorities
Global agenda of IFSW

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