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Tice, C., Long, D., & Cox, L. (2020). Macro social work practice: Advocacy in action. SAGE Publications, Inc.
Chapter 9: Policy Practice, Political Persuasion, and Advocacy
This chapter describes evidence-based policy practice and the roles of social workers in communities and organizations.

Wu, H., Greig, M., & Bryan, C. (2022). Promoting environmental justice and sustainability in social work practice in rural community: A systematic review. Social Sciences (2076-0760), 11(8), 336.
The important role of land trusts in developing community assets. This article argues that rural community-driven social work practices focused on environmental justice and sustainability should be encouraged and that policy advocacy attentive to climate change and its impact on vulnerable and marginalized groups should be pursued.

Hemmerling, S. A., Barra, M., & Bond, R. H. (2020). Adapting to a smaller coast: Restoration, protection, and social justice in coastal Louisiana. In Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather.
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Williams, O. R. (2019). Community land without grants and debt: Funding ecovillage neighborhoods with community shareholders. Communities, 182, 45–48.

Bell, F. M., Dennis, M. K., & Krings, A. (2019). Collective survival strategies and anti-colonial practice in ecosocial work. Journal of Community Practice, 27(3-4), 279-295.
Ecosocial workers critically interrogate how agency, history, and culture structure environmental problems and our responses to them by developing a resilience-based framework and collective survival strategies (CSS). CSS considers power, culture, and history and builds upon the strengths of oppressed communities facing global environmental changes. We challenge the dominant narrative of climate change as a “new” problem and connect it to colonization. We discuss implications by examining a social work program explicitly built on Indigenous knowledges and anti-colonial practice.

Brown, M. E. (2020). Hazards of our helping profession: A practical self-care model for community practice. Social Work, 65(1), 38-44.
A research article examining a new self-care model specific to community practice in social work.

National Association of Social Workers. (2025). Read the code of ethics. NASW.
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) most recent version of the Code of Ethics.

Weiss-Gal, I., & Gal, J. (2020). Explaining the policy practice of community social workers. Journal of Social Work, 20(2), 216-233.
This research article looked at a study that found community social workers are more likely to engage in policy when they enjoy the higher professional status, possess more policy practice resources, have higher psychological involvement in politics, are more involved in political and professional networks, and a sense that they enjoy greater organizational support for policy practice.

Magruder, K. (2020, October 10). What is green social work? [Video]. YouTube.
A video about green social work.

Funding For Good. (2025). Simple steps to write an executive summary.

University at Buffalo School of Social Work. (n.d.). Introduction to self-care. University at Buffalo.

Center for Community Health and Development. (n.d.). Participatory approaches to planning community interventions. In Community Toolbox. University of Kansas.

Candid. (2025, February 20). Introduction to proposal writing [Online training module]. Candid Learning.
This resource is helpful for social work students because it offers a clear, beginner-friendly overview of how to develop strong funding proposals, a crucial skill for supporting community programs and nonprofit initiatives.