One of the questions to be posed for individuals in the chart below is "ow do I extend my responsibility beyond individual clients and advocate for changes in local, state, and national policies and practices?" I wonder for myself, how I will manage balancing clinical practice with policy advocacy. At times it feels like social workers are being asked to do a day job and then a night job on top of that, I feel policy is pitched as a moral obligation of people who are in practice. Maybe that's right, but I know for myself that providing services without payment is not long term sustainable for me. Just anticipating the intricacies of this balance.

I've been thinking about how much I want to learn spanish. I would love to make life easier for someone, or just make them happy by being able to speak spanish and connect with them that way, especially in a school setting like the one I am entering where their native language skills are often not seen as a strength. It's been something I've wanted at every job I've ever worked. Wondering if I can take a spanish class as an elective for NYU classes and if that would be a good use of my credits or if I can take a class elsewhere.

I agree that leaders should have studied policy in some way before taking leadership, but don't the best policies come from practice experience? I'm not sure why this article is so hell bent on the delineation of micro and macro. I don' think there is such a lack of policy workers now, although we are 6 years past this article.

Somewhat confused by this. Weren't the settlement houses one of the first expressions of social work? What is this if not community organizing? Also there seems to be a conflation btwn community organizing and the macro here.