Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society

✍ Scribed by Rowena Fong (editor), James Lubben (editor), Richard P. Barth (editor)

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 purpose of GCSWI was modeled after the National Academy of Engineering, which aimed to identify some of the most persistent engineering problems of the day and then put the attentions, energies, and funding of
the entire field to work on them for a decade. The GCSWI does the same for 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 will present the foundations of the GCSWI, laying out the start of the initiative and providing summaries of each of the twelve challenges. The 12 main chapters that form the core of the book, one on each of the dozen Grand
Challenges, are written by the primary research teams who are driving each GC project.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half title
Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society
Copyright
Contents
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative
1. Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society
2. Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth
3. Close the Health Gap
4. Stop Family Violence
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 for All
13. Achieve Equal Opportunity and Justice
14. Conclusion
Appendix 1: Grand Challenge 85 Ideas
Appendix 2: AASWSW Working Papers
Appendix 3: The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative
Appendix 4: Policy Recommendations to Address the Grand Challenges for Social Work
Appendix 5: Grand Challenges Network Co-​Leads
Appendix 6: Sustaining Sponsors of Grand Challenges for Social Work
Index