School of Social Work, Morgan State University , Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Soc Work Public Health. 2020 Sep 1;35(7):617-632. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2020.1808145.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly overwhelming for communities of color in the United States. In addition to the higher levels of underlying health conditions, circumstances related to a history of oppression and unequal access to opportunities and services are apparent. Social service programs will need to be re-developed to accommodate a new reality, both in terms of how people connect with services and how social work professionals provide them. Professional social work organizations' codes of ethics are analyzed, along with the theoretical framework of structural competency. It is an ethical imperative that social welfare policy and practice advance as culturally competent, racial equity, and empowerment-based programs. Child welfare is portrayed as an example where the pandemic could provide an opportunity to learn from the past to construct a more compassionate, competent, and ethical future.
新冠疫情对美国的有色人种社区来说尤其难以承受。除了更高水平的潜在健康状况外，与压迫历史以及获得机会和服务的不平等有关的情况也很明显。社会服务项目将需要重新制定，以适应新的现实，包括人们如何与服务建立联系以及社会工作专业人员如何提供服务。分析了专业社会工作组织的道德准则，以及结构能力的理论框架。社会福利政策和实践作为文化上有能力、种族平等和以赋权为基础的项目向前发展是符合伦理要求的。儿童福利被描绘为一个例子，即大流行可以提供一个从过去学习的机会，以构建一个更富有同情心、更有能力和更符合伦理的未来。
