ASSIGNMENT 2: INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN SOCIAL WORK WITH ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLES AND COMMUNITIES 2024
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ASSIGNMENT 2: INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN
SOCIAL WORK WITH ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLES AND
COMMUNITIES
2024
Instructions
Weight: 50%
Word count: 2500 (plus or minus 10%)
Due date: 11.59pm Friday 31 May 2024 Week 13 Individual
Relates to learning outcomes 3 & 4
3. Construct and apply anti-oppressive practice with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.
4. Articulate your critical awareness of how your own socio-cultural positioning, organisational context, and professional identity may impact on your interactions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.
Submit via the Canvas course site – the link will open 48 hours before the due date and time.
Assessment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked and will receive a grade of 1 or 0%. If special circumstances prevent you from meeting the assessment due date, you can apply for an extension. If you don’t have an approved extension you should submit the work you have completed by the due date and it will be marked against the assessment criteria.
Citation style: APA 7th Refer to Cite Write while you write
Please ensure your name and student number are in the title of the word document (e.g. Fred Jones 8000000.doc) and in the footer of the document.
Task
Using the social and critical analysis undertaken in Assignment 1, you will prepare an Indigenous community development plan. You will find using the Mia Mia Indigenous Community Development Approaches textbook a useful foundation in developing the plan. The plan should emphasise working with local Indigenous communities. The plan needs to privilege Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices, perspectives and knowledges. Indigenous principles underpinning good practice such as learning about the history of the community, understanding local leadership, partnerships, two-way communication, sustainability and reciprocity need to be reflect in your analysis and approach.
• a positionality about who you are and your practice (approx. 500 words)
• Brief synopsis of the issue examined from Assignment 1 (200 words)
• History, values, demographic and geographic information relevant to the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community (800 words)
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• How you would engage with the local community and approach cultural safety in your practice, including the role of a social worker and identification of key stakeholders (700 words)
• References (minimum of 10 scholarly references which may include readings from the unit reading list)
This plan and assessment are intended to be the first component of an Indigenous community development practice. You are not to propose strategies or solutions to the issue you have analysed.
Please see the separate CRA for the assessment criteria