July 2024
Ahead of a major election year, several of the Grand Challenge networks have created briefs detailing policy recommendations for making progress in various Grand Challenge areas. These briefs can be helpful tools to focus policy advocacy and communicate about solutions with various stakeholders. We encourage you to take a look and share these with your networks, colleagues, professional organizations, and legislators.
Read the full 2024 Policy Recommendations for Meeting the Grand Challenges for Social Work.
Actions individuals can take…
• Share on your social media accounts (links for accompanying images can be found below)
• Reach out to your local and state professional organizations asking them to share the briefs
within their networks
• Identify relevant advocacy organizations or coalitions and share the briefs
• Share with your social work networks and encourage them to use it in their work/advocacy
efforts
• Conduct outreach to local, state, or federal government officials
Read the individual policy recommendations for meeting the Grand Challenge to:
- Build Healthy Relationships to End Violence (social media graphic)
- Advance Long and Productive Lives (social media graphic)
- Eradicate Social Isolation (social media graphic)
- End Homelessness (social media graphic)
- Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment (social media graphic)
- Harness Technology for Social Good (social media graphic)
- Eliminate Racism (social media graphic)
- Promote Smart Decarceration (social media graphic)
- Build Financial Capability and Assets for All
- Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality (social media graphic)
- Eliminate Racism, Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality, and Build Financial Capabilities and Assets for All: Universal and Progressive Child Development Accounts for Racial Wealth Equity (social media graphic)