Describe ways to raise awareness and communicate the importance of considering diverse and ethical perspectives.

Assignment 3: Diversity and Ethics Cover Letter
Due: Week 9
Points: 125

Skills Being Assessed: Problem Solving

Criteria for Success: In this assignment, you will:

Thoughtfully reflect on past experiences as they relate to consideration of diverse and ethical perspectives.
Identify relevant sociological concepts that tie to the situation posed.
Apply diverse and ethical perspectives to a decision-making process. Provide specific examples from personal experience or the scenario.
Articulate the value of incorporating diverse and ethical perspectives when making decisions.
Describe ways to raise awareness and communicate the importance of considering diverse and ethical perspectives. Include concrete examples from the identified problem.
Write in a professional manner using proper grammar and spelling.
What to submit/deliverables: Word document downloaded from Chapter 9 in the webtext and uploaded to the Week 9 Assignment in Blackboard.

What is the value of doing this assignment? This assignment gives you an opportunity to practice the skill of problem solving. It will show that you can use diverse and ethical perspectives when solving a problem and making a decision. Problem solving is a universal skill and one you will continue to refine as you progress throughout your career. This assignment asks you to use what you’ve learned in weeks 7–9 of the course about actively problem solving and considering diverse perspectives. Worried about where to start? The good news is that you’ve already laid the foundation throughout the course in your webtext readings, videos, and Learn sections in Blackboard.

Your goal for this assignment is to: Practice your problem solving skill. You will do this by writing a cover letter that demonstrates your knowledge of diverse and ethical perspectives and how they could be applied to the job you are applying for.

What you need to complete this assignment:

Cover letter template, provided in the webtext.
Downloaded cover letter from the webtext.
Steps to complete: Complete the template for Assignment 3 in Chapter 9 of the webtext. You will be asked to write a 3-paragraph cover letter to the head of the diversity and ethics committee.

STEP 1:Describe how your background and unique perspectives would be a valuable addition to the team.

STEP 2: Give an example of a time when you intentionally looked at other diverse and ethical perspectives in order to make a better/more ethical decision.

STEP 3: Answer the following questions based on the scenario below:

In the graduate program at Herringbone University, students are allowed only one missed class per semester or they face academic discipline. Three female students have approached you as the diversity and ethics officer with a concern about the policy. They explain that they all have young children (as do many students in the program), and getting childcare during class times is difficult because some of the classes don’t end until 8:00 in the evening. They feel the policy is unfair, especially since the university doesn’t offer any support, leniency in policy, or childcare options. In addition, the location of the university (an upper middle class neighborhood where most children have at least one parent at home) is not where most students live (a neighborhood where most children have two working parents or a single working parent).

How would you approach this issue using diverse and ethical perspectives? Use specific examples from the scenario and your personal and professional life.
Why is it important to consider diverse and ethical perspectives in this situation?
How would you raise awareness and communicate the importance to others at your school in your role on the diversity and ethics committee?

What types of information successfully increase pro-environmental behavior?When are these types of information effective?

Do not write in essay form you can just answer the questions by number

Information needed to complete questions

Links

Politics & Global Warming, 2019: Executive Summary- https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/politics-global-warming-april-2019/

http://www.footprintcalculator.org

1.Use the footprint calculator link to calculate your own ecological footprint (here: http://www.footprintcalculator.org/). Were you surprised by your results? What did you learn? Do you think the ecological footprint is a helpful metric? Why or why not?

2.Why doesn’t information always increase pro-environmental behavior?

3.What types of information successfully increase pro-environmental behavior? When are these types of information effective?

4.The DeSombre chapter suggests that fear (of climate change, of a disease, etc.) can actually lead to a decrease in the behaviors that might address the source of the fear. Why is this? Do you find that this is true in your life?

5.Why do you think there are such strong partisan patterns in the Yale survey responses to questions about climate change? How does the DeSombre chapter help to explain these patterns?

Identify a response strategy and a recovery strategy that either you would have recommended to members of this effected community,or one that they engaged in that you believe was effective.

Weaponized Biohazard Emergency Plan

Emergency plan related to homeland security, a research proposal for a response and recovery plan about biohazards. Related to last year covid for future emergency plans for state and federal level.

Propose one response strategy and one recovery initiative for your community. The response strategy and recovery activity should each address a need in your community evident through the information provided in the scenario. In justifying your arguments, be sure address all of the following points in your paper:

1. Identify a disaster event that has taken place in the United States in the last year. Describe the event including:
A description of the hazard, its duration, a description of its consequences and the kinds of disruption it has caused, whether or not it is still ongoing.
Describe who was affected. This includes geographic location, but also any subsets of the population/community that experienced the event or especially severe consequences
Note: you must pick a different event than the one you selected in your Paper 2 assignment. It can be the same hazard type, but cannot be the same event.

2. Identify a response strategy and a recovery strategy that either you would have recommended to members of this effected community,or one that they engaged in that you believe was effective. Summarize the response approach. Summarize the recovery approach

Make sure you are clear on what exactly the activity is and who/which organizations would be involved in implementing or facilitating the activity.

Make sure that you define response and recovery and clearly identify which activity is which.

3. What issue/concern in the community does this address? Who and/or What does it focus on?

4. For both the recovery and the response activities, justify why each of these approaches is the best approach. In doing so, make sure that you support your argument with:
Information about your event and the community/location you are focusing on.
Theories and policies discussed in the course

Briefly describe some ways in which Space Supremacy is vital to U.S. National Security.How will the U.S. Space Force help ensure this Space Supremacy?

As more Nations become space capable, the importance of Space to the U.S. National Defense increases. The creation of the new Space Force is a direct consequence of this activity.

Briefly describe some ways in which Space Supremacy is vital to U.S. National Security.How will the U.S. Space Force help ensure this Space Supremacy?

Identify 3 benefit challenges and 3 benefit opportunities that are apparent when looking at combining the benefit plans at the two companies?

Assume that you are the Director of Employee Benefits for the Miller Manufacturing Company (MMC) and report to the Senior VP of Human Resources.

Questions to Answer for your Boss:

What do you think the benefits strategy of MMC has been? How does the benefits strategy match what you know about the organization?
What do you think the benefits strategy of OY has been? How does the benefits strategy match what you learned about the company?
Identify 3 benefit challenges and 3 benefit opportunities that are apparent when looking at combining the benefit plans at the two companies?
Identify 3 benefit challenges and 3 benefit opportunities that would exist if the OY employees were to become covered by the MMC benefit program.
Identify 3 benefit funding opportunities that are available at either company.
Assume the acquisition of OY goes through. Select 3 benefit programs and provide your recommendation on harmonizing those programs for the combined company.
Assume the acquisition of OY falls through. Identify 3 benefit changes that should be considered by MMC anyway?

Remember, you are writing a business report to your Senior VP of Human Resources that he/she will share with the CEO. Make sure you write clear, concise, and carefully crafted and limit your work to no more than 3 to 4 pages.

Do you believe that psychoactive substance use disorder is a mental health diagnosis on par with bipolar disorder,major depression,schizophrenia,etc.?Why or why not?

Social Work Critical Self-Reflection Paper

In this module, you will submit your critical self-reflection paper.

Effective work with addicted populations, whether it is clinical, policy, or research, requires an objective knowledge of one’s own values, attitudes, and personal understanding of addiction.

In this reflection paper, you will generate an essay exploring and describing your own position relative to these ideas concerning addiction. Use a narrative/descriptive writing style using the first-person perspective (first person including “I” and “my”).

Start by discussing how you learned what you knew about addiction before taking this course. Be specific in your description of learning experiences. This should be unique to you and personal. Comments should be individualistic and specific, evidencing full authenticity and sincerity. You should support your dialog with personal events and experiences. This work does not require citations or references to the professional literature.

Personal events and experiences: I worked at a treatment center for teenagers where substance abuse and mental health was a challenge for many.

Reflection Questions

Do you believe that psychoactive substance use disorder is a mental health diagnosis on par with bipolar disorder,major depression,schizophrenia,etc.?Why or why not?

The DSM states that one criteria for a substance use disorder is that the substance is taken in larger amounts or over a longer period of time than intended with the key idea being intention. The concept in play here is that intention, volition, and will are mentally compromised, and therefore insufficient to control the quantity and frequency of use. Do you believe this?

Expose a rationale for your belief one way or another or somewhere in between.

This paper is confidential to the professor and treated with clinical-like confidentiality. The professor will apply a very basic grading rubric, but more importantly, will provide verbal feedback to this paper in the form of an audio file attachment.

Evaluate the Bus Accident Investigation Process AND identify opportunities to improve the bus accident investigation process(3-5 recommendations/improvements).

Bus Accident Investigation Procedures for LA Metro

1.Read and review LA Metro’s Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan(Bus Accident Investigation Procedures pages 99-119).
2. Evaluate the Bus Accident Investigation Process AND identify opportunities to improve the bus accident investigation process(3-5 recommendations/improvements).
3. Use acronyms used specifically for LA Metro.
4. No sources are needed
5. Have attached a paper that a classmate has completed for the same project on a different section of the plan. Use this as a reference if possible.

Discuss the importance of the statistical methods to the research project.

Statistics Power Point Slides

Article Presentation Description An 8-minute presentation (+ 2 minutes Q/A) of the reviewed article using PowerPoint slides (max 10 slides).
Requirements
Requirement Point Value

Formatting Requirements

Identify the authors, title of article, and journal title 5 pts. Use proper grammar 5 pts. Appropriate font and spacing 5 pts. Paper is appropriate length 5 pts.

Summary Requirements

Explain goal of the study (identify null vs. alternative hypothesis) 10 pts. Explain study methodology 10 pts.

Describe results 10 pts. List conclusions 10 pts.

Critical Review Requirements

Discuss the importance of the statistical methods to the research project 10 pts.

Explain how the statistical methods used in the research are related to what we are discussing in this course 10 pts.

Explain how the author chose to present the data in this article. Was it presented in a way that was easy to understand? If not, how would you suggest the data be presented? 10 pts.

Discuss another possible approach to analysis of the data presented in the article, if possible.

If you cannot think of an alternative approach, explain why the methods used in the article are appropriate for analysis of the data. 10 pts.

Total point value will be converted to 5.