2026 Petersheim Academic Exposition
Social Work Advocacy: Fighting Back and Building Bridges!
The policy research highlights the critical role social workers play in shaping, challenging, and advancing public policy. This session underscores how policy research connects micro experiences to macro change, translating client and community realities into actionable advocacy. In doing so, it reinforces social work’s dual mission of direct practice and systemic change, demonstrating how research-informed advocacy strengthens the profession’s ethical commitment to equity, inclusion, and social transformation. Senior social work majors present brief overviews of their capstone policy research.