Legal advocacy Assignment 4

Legal advocacy Assignment 4

Legal advocacy is a type of advocacy that can be very beneficial in the work that human service professionals do with children and their families. For this Assignment, you are going to explore the ways in which this type of advocacy can be useful by developing a case study involving the children) and family members. Your Assignment needs to address the components listed below.

Develop a case study that involves a child or children and family members. Make sure to be descriptive in terms of the age(s) of the children involved, which family members are part of the case study, and their ages and role with the child/children. Include any other information that is pertinent as well as including the socioeconomic status of the individuals in your case study, and other important background details.

Identify an issue that is impacting the child(ren) and the family members. Provide some general background on the issue that you chose. The background should be specific to the family, as well as general information about how many people are impacted by the issue in our society, the history of this issue in our country, etc.

Determine the different ways in which legal advocacy would be beneficial to the case that you discussed. Be sure to discuss how this type of advocacy is beneficial in terms of the self-determination of the individuals in your case study.

Explore some of the legal strategies that would be particularly useful to the individuals in your case study.

Assess any challenges that human service professionals may encounter when legally advocating for the individuals in your case study. Evaluate how human service professionals could overcome these challenges.

Your Assignment should reflect professional writing standards using proper tone and language. The writing style should be correct, accurate, and reflect knowledge of the role of legal advocacy in work that human service professionals do with children and their families. The paper should be 4–6 pages, double spaced, and in APA format. You should include a minimum of four reputable references in your paper, with one of the references being your textbook.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.