Prof wk1.....Social Change, Leadership, and Advocacy Applied (2 pages): Describe the professional or societal issue you selected. Explain why the issue arouses your passion. Be specific. Describe a manageable goal for each of the following: social change, leadership, and advocacy related to the issue you selected. Explain how achieving each goal might impact the profession and society. Support your response by citing at least three sources. The application of social change, leadership, and advocacy to a specific issue related to human services professions is a systematic process. The initial step is to select and delineate a professional or societal issue about which you are passionate. Subsequent steps require expanding the issue by considering how it might benefit from social change, leadership, or advocacy efforts. Once it is determined that people would benefit from such efforts, the next step is to set a manageable social change, leadership, or advocacy-related goal. Finally, human services professionals take on and/or support the goal. To prepare for this Assignment, review this weeks Learning Resources. Identify at least one professional or societal issue that arouses your passion as a human services professional. Throughout this course, you will explore this issue in depth, examining it from multiple perspectives. This issue also may serve as the issue you select for your Final Project; therefore, you should select one that speaks to you as a human services professional.

Prof wk1.....Social Change, Leadership, and Advocacy Applied (2 pages): Describe the professional or societal issue you selected. Explain why the issue arouses your passion. Be specific. Describe a manageable goal for each of the following: social change, leadership, and advocacy related to the issue you selected. Explain how achieving each goal might impact the profession and society. Support your response by citing at least three sources. The application of social change, leadership, and advocacy to a specific issue related to human services professions is a systematic process. The initial step is to select and delineate a professional or societal issue about which you are passionate. Subsequent steps require expanding the issue by considering how it might benefit from social change, leadership, or advocacy efforts. Once it is determined that people would benefit from such efforts, the next step is to set a manageable social change, leadership, or advocacy-related goal. Finally, human services professionals take on and/or support the goal. To prepare for this Assignment, review this weeks Learning Resources. Identify at least one professional or societal issue that arouses your passion as a human services professional. Throughout this course, you will explore this issue in depth, examining it from multiple perspectives. This issue also may serve as the issue you select for your Final Project; therefore, you should select one that speaks to you as a human services professional.ReadingsHoman, M. S. (2011). Promoting community change: Making it happen in the real world (5th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole. Chapter 1, Understanding the Challenge to Change (pp. 433) Chapter 12, Taking ActionStrategies and Tactics (pp. 379417) Arredondo, P., & Perez, P. (2003). Expanding multicultural competence through social justice leadership. The Counseling Psychologist, 31(3), 282289.Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. Epple, D. M. (2007). Inter and intra professional social work differences: Social works challenge. Clinical Social Work Journal, 35(4), 267276.Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. Kotter, J. P. (2007). Leading changeWhy transformation efforts fail. Harvard Business Review, 85(1), 96103.Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. Sudbrack, B., & Trombley, S. (2007). Lost: A survival guide to leadership theory. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 9(2), 251268.Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. Vera, E. M., & Speight, S. L. (2003). Multicultural competence, social justice, and counseling psychology: Expanding our roles. The Counseling Psychologist, 31(3), 253272.