The social work profession

The social work profession enjoys a long history of the child welfare system to support families and children’s victims of neglect and abuse. Literature research indicates that radical, poor, and ethnic minority families and children are disproportionally libelled, mandated, and reported in child welfare systems (Freelander et al., 2018). The social work system understands working with children as operating with the entire family and environmental factors. Unfortunately, social workers have an increased caseload and administrative caseload with low pay compared to the other professions. Recommendations on NASW policy involve allocating increased resources to help children facing community-based abuse prevention roles by fully funding and re-authorizing the Child Abuse Prevention Act. The policy that exists in Washington State supports innovation in protective services of children and conducts research, technical assistance, data collection, and program evaluations. The Child Abuse Prevention Act aims to provide financial assistance for programs demonstration to identify, prevent and treat child neglect and abuse to create a national center on child abuse (Fahrudin et al., 2016). The program recognizes the role played by the federal government in supporting evaluation, research, and technical assistance as the law contains reporting and processes for eligibility. A policy initiative to further the position is promoting professional child protection involvement by providing incentives for students to peruse welfare work through educational leave and loan forgiveness. The improvement of the system requires social workers to receive adequate salaries, manageable caseloads, appropriate training to truly reform the system (Guerrini, 2016). The existing policies in my State focus on programs serving families and children, like the temporary assistance for the needy families through maternal, infant, and early childhood, maternal and child health services, and head starts offering child mistreatment services. Respond by 10/22/2021 to at least two colleagues who selected a different position from the one you selected by suggesting how the policy initiative can be achieved. Be sure to identify any challenges or obstacles you see in passing and implementing the initiative.