Midterm social welfare

Question 1

why we learn social welfare policy

Answer 1

-we will possibly be helping individuals navigate through some of these situations so it is important to have knowledge on these topics.
- Social workers advocate for and help people access the social welfare supports they are entitled to.

Question 2

Public and private sectors

Answer 2

Public: services provided by government ex health care
Private: business /services operated by private individuals or companies for profit ex retail, private schools

Question 3

Neoliberal social program “stelth” cuts

Answer 3

Government slowly cuts down the finical support by cutting taxes
ex fed gov money toward services downloaded to provincial

Question 4

employment equity act

Answer 4

-Canadian law aimed at ensuring equal opportunities for all employees
-promoting equality
targets women, FMNI, disabilities, visible minorities

Question 5

basic income projects

Answer 5

-system where gov provides
regular payments to everyone regardless of income or employment
- reduce poverty/ provide finical stability

Question 6

The 3 social welfare models of family

Answer 6

1 patriarchal model
2 individual reasonability model
3 social reasonability

Question 7

confederation

Answer 7

1867**
the first phase of social welfare when the settlers took the indigouns peoples land, during this time there was limited charities, run by church

Question 8

institutional
residual
social

Answer 8

institution- welfare is a necessary part of society to support everyone at different times
residual- only if desperately needed
social- focuses on creating polices to improve overall quality of life and prevent social problems

Question 9

early childhood

Answer 9

• cost, 1 thousand a month for childcare, hard to get into and find
• important to development

Question 10

neoliberalism

Answer 10

emphasis individual responsibility
-businesses make most decisions
-gov not involved
-letting business make own rules without gov help

leads to downing sealth cuts -

Question 11

Human right legislation

Answer 11

laws protects people from discrimination:
the rights to which people inherently entitled to because they are human beings. They define what we are all entitled to

inigounrs, lgbtq excluded
ex income sucrity

Question 12

workers compensation benefits

Answer 12

• eligible,
  most are covered if injured at workplace, if register with provincial bord you will receive benefits
• 4 kinds of benefits
  -replace wadges
  -cover medical bills
  -long term disability
  -return to work program

Question 13

Regional disparity and unemployment

Answer 13

economic differences between regions often seen in employment rates, income, and services

courses: caused declining industries lack of investment rual vs ubran.

Question 14

parental leave

Answer 14

time off work for parents after a child is born
-maternity / paternity
-4 months of leave for each parent, have to have been working to be eligible (600h past y)

Question 15

basic income projects

Answer 15

a guaranteed livable wadge, reduce poverty and improve lives

Question 16

wadge gaps/ distribution of wealth

Answer 16

Poverty gap- ratio showing average shortfall of the total population from the poverty line.

poverty line- income level below which a person or household is considered to be in poverty.

wealth distribution-wealthiest people in Canada have 47.9% of the wealth

gender pay gap- women and men difference -89 cents to dollar

Question 17

The employment equity act

Answer 17

-law aimed at ensuring opportunities for employees
ESDC- policies intending to help workers

Question 18

Social exclusion

Answer 18

a person living in poverty not only takes basic resources but also limited opportunities to participate in social economic and cultural activities

Question 19

3 EI coverage gaps

Answer 19

1 )regular benefits- ppl who loose their job
2) special benefits- maternity, sickness
3) employment services- traning for skills

Question 20

income sucrity

Answer 20

in 2017 3.4 mil Canadians/ 95% lived below poverty line

Question 21

Mean
medium

Answer 21

mean- add up and divide amount of numbers
medium- smallest to biggest cross out to middle

Question 22

sandwich family’s

Answer 22

-20 million Americans
-majority is women taking care of their grandparents
-most are also working a full time job in the previous 12 month

Question 23

Precarious work

Answer 23

non-standard or temporary employment (part time jobs) that may be poorly paid, insecure, unprotected,lack of training, lack of benefits f and unable to support a household.

Question 24

Cliff Falwell

Answer 24

second chance education programs

Question 25

explain social responsibility model

Answer 25

-sees caregiving as a shared reasonability between families
-promote universal support programs like affordable childcare , gov understand they need help

Question 26

Meredith principles

Answer 26

1- no fault -compensated regardless of fault

2- collective liability-employers share cost of compensation

3-security of benefits- independent funds ensure workers will receive benefit

4- exclusive jurisdiction- WCB has authority over claims

5-indepedant adimadministration - WCB is independent from gov

Question 27

Human rights legislation 6

Answer 27

prevents hate crime and discrintory action (Lgbtq Fmni not included)

Question 28

The group most effected by homelessness

Answer 28

the most effected by homelessness are indigenousness people

Question 29

5 things social detriments

Answer 29

F- food sucrity
I- income /indig status
S- social safety
H- housing
E- education
D- disability

Question 30

wealth distribution

Answer 30

the wealthiest people in Canada have 47.9% of all the wealth in Canada (rich ppl)