Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Chapter 1: Understanding the Complexities, Costs, and Benefits Surrounding Immigration Policy: Tough Decisions for Families and Policy Makers
Chapter 2: Community Organizing Concepts and Principles: Rebuilding Holyoke From the Ground Up
Chapter 3: Achieving Racial Equality: Education, Housing, Health, and Justice ... A Long Way to Go
Chapter 4: End-of-Life Care, Costs, Concerns, and Conflict: Too Much of the Wrong Kind of Care?
Chapter 5: Mental Illness: Community Supports and Community Dilemmas
Chapter 6: Perplexing Challenges in Child Protective Services: Life on the Front Line
Chapter 7: Society's Evolving Understanding of Chemical Addiction and the Subsequent Changes in Policy and Treatment Approaches: The Struggle to Stay Clean
Chapter 8: Understanding the Draw of Gangs, Consequences for Neighborhoods, and Determining an Effective Response: The North Side Crew
Chapter 9: Eminent Domain, Urban Renewal, and NIMBY: Is There a Win-Win Solution?
Chapter 10: Homelessness and the Housing First Debate: Wrestling With the Issues
Chapter 11: Examining the Elementary and Secondary Education System in the United States and One Family's Dilemma: Fight or Flight

This work is unique in that the cases included aim to significantly increase student's knowledge base about broad social justice issues. This will allow students to evaluate, analyze, and synthesize facts and consequently create more engaged and informed classroom discussions. Social Workers as Game Changers enables students to increase their knowledge base about specific social issues while at the same time increasing their sense of efficacy in fulfilling their role in addressing complex social justice issues. The case method approach will be used to cover a range of topics such as immigration, homelessness, education, health care, mental health, eminent domain, poverty, gangs and community development. Students will be challenged to think critically about vital issues, weigh the advantages and disadvantages of competing solutions, explore policy alternatives, and grapple with the unintended consequences of any decision