Core

Competency
Ashleigh Bell

Core Competency: 1
Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly.

Practice Behavior: 1.1

Advocate for client access to the services of social work.
Learning information on services offered through DSS, such as Parenting Matters.
Parenting matters is an 8 sessions meetings that involve the parent learning
different skills to improve their ability to care for their child. Clients with improper
supervision are recommended by the agency to complete each session. The
meetings can be in groups with others parents or the social worker can go to the
home. Once they have completed the meetings they receive a certificate.

Practice Behavior: 1.2

Practice personal reflection and self correction to assure continual professional
development.
Throughout the day I am keeping notes on what I have learned and comparing it to
what I have learned in the class room.

Practice Behavior: 1.3

Attend to professional roles and boundaries.
When observing meetings with the social workers and clients I make sure to
maintain a professional demeanor and refrain from making assumptions about
individuals .

Practice Behavior: 1.4

Demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior, appearance, and communication.
This behavior is demonstrated by dressing accordingly to the dress code. Making
sure to dress and behave professionally when working in the courtroom. This
behavior is also meet when speaking with clients and coworkers.

Practice Behavior: 1.5

Engage in career- long learning.
http://info.dhhs.state.nc.us/olm/manuals/manuals.aspx?dc=dss
Through this website I am able to learn about the services that child advocacy offers
and what each one is about.
Examples: CFT meetings, child placement, and adoption services.

Practice Behavior: 1.6

Use supervision and consultation.
This behavior was meet by meeting with my supervisor daily to go over daily task
and also having once a week meetings.

Core Competency: 2
Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice.

Practice Behavior: 2.1

Recognize and manage personal values in a way that allows professional values to
guide practice.
When first going into foster homes I had a prejudgment on what I thought they
would be like but once I had the chance to go on several home visits I understand
that a lot of them are loving families caring for these foster children.

Practice Behavior: 2.2

Make ethical decisions by applying standards of the National Association of Social
Workers Code of Ethics and, as applicable, of the International Federation of Social
Workers/ International Association of Schools of Social Work Ethics in Social Work,
Statement of Principles.
Using the NSAW Code of Ethics I am able to make ethical decisions when going to
client's homes or sitting in on meeting, instead of using my own personal values.

Practice Behavior: 2.3

Tolerate ambiguity in resolving ethical conflicts.
This behavior was demonstrated by me when I knew someone who was in court for a
certain case. I would remove myself from the court and return once they finished.
The reason for this is that I do not put myself in a place where they ask for my
opinion on things that are happening with their case.

Practice Behavior: 2.4

Apply strategies of ethical reasoning to arrive at principled decisions.
When sitting in on parenting classes if my opinion is asked for I make to answer in a
way that the clients can relate while also understand to use ethical reasoning.

Core Competency: 3
Advance Human RIghts and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice

Practice Behavior: 3.1

Apply understanding of social, economic, and environmental justice to advocate for
human rights at the individual and system levels.
When attending parenting matters meetings I asked parents how they feel about
certain situations and what they can do to change it.

Practice Behaviors: 3.2

Engage in practices that advance social, economic, and environmental justice.

Contact community leaders and senators on policy change

Core Competency: 4
Engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice

Practice Behaviors: 4.1

Use practice experience and theory to inform scientific inquiry and research.
Applying research findings to improve work with clients.

Practice Behaviors: 4.2

Apply critical thinking to engage in analysis of quantitative and qualitative research
methods and research findings.
Using statistics of the county to find research that will improve the community's well
being

Practice Behaviors: 4.3

Use and translate research evidence to inform and improve practice, policy, and
service delivery.
Apply research findings to work with clients

Core Competency: 5
Engage in Policy Practice

Practice Behaviors: 5.1

Identify social policy at the local, state, and federal level that impacts well-being,
service delivery, and access to social services.
Using online child welfare manual and economic services manual to identify issues

Practice Behaviors: 5.2

Assess how social welfare and economic policies impact the delivery of and access
to social services.
Access online manual to find more information on food nutrition, Medicaid, etc.

Practice Behaviors: 5.3

Apply critical thinking to analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance
human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.
Contact community leaders and senators on policy change

Core Competency: 6
Engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities

Practice Behaviors: 6.1

Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-inenvironment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks to engage with
clients and constituencies.
Interact and observe clients during CFT meetings

Practice Behaviors: 6.2

Use empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills to effectively engage diverse clients
and constituencies.
Interview clients on CPS interviews

Core Competency: 7
Assess individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities

Practice Behaviors: 7.1

Collect and organize data, and apply critical thinking to interpret information from
clients and constituencies.
Collect and document information from CPS interview

Practice Behaviors: 7.2

Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-inenvironment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in interventions
with clients and constituencies.
Observe and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings

Practice Behaviors: 7.3

Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives based on the critical
assessment of strengths, needs, and challenges within clients and constituencies.
Assist in developing in home service agreement

Practice Behaviors: 7.4

Select appropriate intervention strategies based on the assessment, research
knowledge, and values and preferences of clients and constituencies.
Identify interventions activities to include on in home service agreement

Core Competency: 8
Intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities

Practice Behaviors: 8.1

Critically choose and implement interventions to achieve practice goals and
enhance capacities of clients and constituencies.
Monitor client progress on service requirements on in home service agreement

Practice Behaviors: 8.2

Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-inenvironment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in interventions
with clients and constituencies.
Observe and participate in PPAT (Permanence Plan Action Team Meeting)

Practice Behaviors: 8.3

Use interpersonal collaboration as appropriate to achieve beneficial practice
outcomes.
Observe and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings

Practice Behaviors: 8.4

Negotiate, mediate, and advocate with and on behalf of diverse clients and
constituencies.
Interview clients during CPS meetings

Practice Behaviors: 8.5

Facilitate effective transitions and endings that advance mutually agreed-on goals.
Agree upon goals with clients during CFT meetings

Core Competency: 9
Evaluate practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.

Practice Behaviors: 9.1

Select and use appropriate methods for evaluation of outcomes.
Maintain contact with service providers to monitor families progress

Practice Behaviors: 9.2

Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-inenvironment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in the evaluation
of outcomes.
Participate in closure CFT meeting

Practice Behaviors: 9.3

Critically analyze, monitor, and evaluate intervention and program processes and
outcomes.
Maintain contact with service providers to monitor families progress

Practice Behaviors: 9.4

Apply evaluation findings to improve practice effectiveness at the micro, mezzo and
macro level.
Use the information gathered from the Internet in allowed existing services