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Additional thoughts on related practice behaviors, areas of knowledge and/or general comments related to this core competency:
   
 
 
Core competency 5: Advance human rights and social and economic justice

Associated key areas of macro social work practice knowledge:
• Know the historical and political contexts of human rights and social and economic justice
• Identify varied principles of human rights, nationally and internationally, as well as theories and strategies to promote social justice and human rights


When you think of a well-prepared graduating MSS-level macro social worker, how important is it that they are competent in the following practice behaviors associated with this core competency:
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16. Discuss and critically evaluate the historical and political contexts of, and macro social work’s varied traditions around, human rights and social and economic justice, including legacies of colonialism, imperialism, genocide, and forced de/under-development, both locally and globally
17. Articulate existing, and develop additional, evaluative indicators of collective (social, economic, political, and environmental) wellbeing for communities and organizations
18. Individually and collectively advocate for human rights through advancing the principles of human rights within national constitutional laws and through international declarations of human rights, including the seven declarations and conventions listed in the IFSW/IASSW Ethics in Social Work, Statement of Principles
 
 
Core competency 6: Engage in research-informed practice and practice- informed research

Associated key areas of macro social work practice knowledge:
• Be able to critically appraise community research within a continuum of community participation
• Know how to: (a) find, (b) evaluate, (c) utilize, and (d) advance qualitative and quantitative research relevant to macro practice and is participatory and collaborative in nature


When you think of a well-prepared graduating MSS-level macro social worker, how important is it that they are competent in the following practice behaviors associated with this core competency:
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19. Collectively and individually demonstrate skills in collecting, organizing, and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and in using data to prepare and present professional products for community agencies
20. Manage group and community-based research efforts, including the following and/or integration of members of communities and organizations in all steps of research (goals, questions, design, collection, analyses, interpretation)
21. Identify and utilize best practice, evidence-informed research to understand issues and to develop and implement community and organizational interventions
 
 
Core competency 7: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment

Associated key areas of macro social work practice knowledge:
• Recognize the central importance of relationships within macro social work
• Appreciate the unique dimensions that cultural, environmental, urban, and rural contexts bring to communities and organizations and those engaged in these macro system

When you think of a well-prepared graduating MSS-level macro social worker, how important is it that they are competent in the following practice behaviors associated with this core competency:
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22. Assess and analyze communities and organizations as social systems with life cycles and arrangements of potential and/or realized connections
23. Utilize the connections between and among individuals, collectives, and places in all stages of macro practice
24. Actively engage with communities and organizations to plan, recommend, and evaluate interventions emphasizing diverse contexts (cultural, historical, social, economic, and political)
 
 
Core competency 8: Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services


Associated key areas of macro social work practice knowledge:
• Recognize the roots of and conditions around various policy realities relevant to macro practice
• Know strategies for policy development, advocacy, implementation, and evaluation within communities and organizations


When you think of a well-prepared graduating MSS-level macro social worker, how important is it that they are competent in the following practice behaviors associated with this core competency:
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25. Analyze policies from historical, current, and global perspectives with particular understanding of the role of social, economic, and political forces on policy formulation, and the implications for less powerful and oppressed groups
26. Work collaboratively to formulate and promote policies that advance social justice, the effectiveness of social services, and collective wellbeing
 
 
Core competency 9: Respond to contexts that shape practice

Associated key areas of macro social work practice knowledge:
• Recognize and react to the changing landscape of the public, nonprofit, service and for-profit organizations that comprise the social service sector, as well as to the social, economic, political and environmental contexts that shape these organizations and community life
• Know the principles of leadership in organizations and communities for effective, appropriate, and ethical interventions to improve the collective wellbeing

When you think of a well-prepared graduating MSS-level macro social worker, how important is it that they are competent in the following practice behaviors associated with this core competency:
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27. Strengthen and aid in the development of communities, groups, and organizations through (a) collaboration in all stages of macro practice (engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation); (b) joint problem identification and strategic planning; and (c) leadership development of self and others
28. Actively discover and utilize strengths and knowledge (both new and old) from the cultural, geographical, political, legal, economic, environmental, technological, and scientific contexts within communities and organizations to inform macro practice
 
 
Core competency 10: Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities

Associated key areas of macro social work practice knowledge:
• Understand the varied history, theories, techniques, and controversies around community and organizational engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation
• Identify factors within successful community and organizational engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation, including how to promote participatory and transparent processes and how to identify, anticipate, and navigate common pitfalls
• Appreciate the logical and reasoned pattern of coherently designed engagement-assessment-intervention-evaluation cycles

When you think of a well-prepared graduating MSS-level macro social worker, how important is it that they are competent in the following practice behaviors associated with this core competency:
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29. Demonstrate networking, facilitative, and technical knowledge and skills needed for collaborative efforts within community and organizational engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation (e.g. distributive leadership, facilitation, participatory problem/priority identification, decision making, conducting effective meetings, team building, communication, supervision, conflict resolution, management of individuals and task groups, budgeting, fundraising)
30. Actively draw on multiple theories and frameworks within community and organizational engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation (e.g. organizational and systems theories; theories of change; theories of community development/organization; theories of policy advocacy)
31. Demonstrate effective, logical movement through the engagement-assessment-intervention-evaluation cycle, including constructing and using logic models to guide the process
32. Engagement: (a) engage with communities and organizations in a kind, collaborative, transparent manner that reflects mutuality; (b) demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills
33. Assessment: (a) develop relevant and mutually agreed-upon questions for assessment; (b) undertake a variety of strategies and presentation formats for community assessments; (c) demonstrate skills in collecting, organizing, and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data for an assessment (e.g. surveys, interviews, focus groups, visual methods); (d) articulate attempts at navigating insider/outsider tensions, including conflicts between “prescribed” goals and community priorities in needs assessments; (e) appreciate the differences among research led by, done with, and done on communities
34. Intervention: (a) use an assessment to draw logical, collaborative implications for programmatic and policy interventions; (b) design collaborative programmatic and policy interventions, using well-reasoned theories of change strategies selected from a well-considered range of theories and strategies; (c) communicate, orally and in writing, effective proposals for intervention plans across areas of macro practice, including organizations, communities, and policy areas
35. Evaluation: (a) differentiate between and be able to isolate the advantages and disadvantages of different types of evaluation, including summative and formative; process and outcome; (b) critically evaluate why programs succeed or fail, including theories of program cause and effect and issues of implementation; (c) understand and use theories of change for evaluation of various program and policy issues