Hello Linden,

Thank you so much for sharing this. I strongly agree with you. It is very important that social workers make sure to follow all the important steps adequately so that we do the right measurements […]

I work at a high school with immigrant students, and as we know, immigrants have been mismeasured in many ways, however, I would like to emphasize how they are counted for in the last 3 years. Around 3 years ago, […]

The communities I am working with have been mismeasured through the use of convenience and voluntary response sampling. There have been occasions where the social worker targeted people who were easy to reach, […]

My population I work with at my agency are people with Serious Mental Illness (SMI). Individuals with SMI have historically been mis-measured like many other individuals with mental and physical disabilities. […]

Djenebou,

This is super comprehensive that clearly conveys a framework for analyzing the problem about mismeaurments , and offers clear solutions for said problem. Especially, When you state ” The misuse of […]

In research, an AAPI Arab First Gen student, like me, is either mismeasured or not measured at all. Then even without notice, they slowly erase the check box that says Middle Eastern, but instead, you are told […]

I think your focus on the grand challenge of closing the health gap is way more crucial now than when you posted. With what is happening with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, health care is such an important topic. […]

I also found the grand challenge of ensuring that children have healthy development to be extremely relevant, as my agency works with youth with a focus on providing support systems to help them reach their full […]

Closing the health gap is a very important issue. Everyone in a society should have the equal opportunity to be as healthy as possible. I believe your issue is especially relevant right now as the Covid-19 Pademic […]

Though all of the grand challenges stand out, the two that resonate with me most are 1, to safely reduce our incarcerated population, and 2, strengthening financial security. Currently, in my life, both of the […]

Hi, at Hunter college library I have read the following Social work practice evaluations also follow a process of inquiry that includes at least 1) defining the problem of client system; 2) defining the […]

My references

References
LeCroy, C. W. (2019). Mismeasurement in social work practice: Building evidence-based practice one measure at a time. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 10(3), […]

I agree that it is difficult to compare social impact because it has been researched under different domains such as poverty, sustainability, education, climate change, and other issues affecting humankind. I […]

The research on social science typically relies on the effective use of measurement principles in communities because, without measurement science, we cannot develop evidence-based practice in social work. […]

The community I work with are students with brain-based injuries and disorders. Often, these students are non-ambulatory, have cognitive delays, some are unable to use words to communicate, many are fed through a […]

Hey Jen!

I loved reading your post. I really agree with you that we need to not only use our intuition and experiences to help us make our decisions and interventions. At the end of the day, we want to do what […]

Social impact has been studied in domains such as education, health care, environmental sustainability, and poverty, which can be difficult to compare. As I read ” Scientific Inquiry in Social Work” I was taught […]

Violence is one of the grand challenges in social work. For instance, family violence significantly and disproportionately affects women and children (Kulkarni, Barth & Messing, 2016). When families conflict, […]

Julia,
Thank you for sharing and voicing concern about this topic. I agree that housing is not just a social work issue but expands to micro/macro/mezzo. From my personal experience/social work practice I can […]

As I read the “Grand Challenges of Social Work” I deeply resonated with the issue, extreme inequality. An interesting section I pulled out was “Extreme economic inequality has become a common characteristic of A […]