Blog 4- What is Macro Social Work???

I started this assignment by asking about 3 of the social workers at the Health Center what does macro social work practice is? What I found interesting is that the conclusion of what they all were saying is that: social work practice is what every social worker does, whether you realize and accept it or not. I sat with my supervisor to discuss this and she explained to me that the macro aspect of out practice is the relationship we create outside of our walls, that connects our patients to the services they need that has the louder voices. What she meant was that we all do it on some level. She then started asking me about a meeting I attended at Headstart that was about improving thir services, expanding, so on and so forth. I talked about it and told her how it would be beneficial for our clients, how we would be able to use those services in the Health Center. I went to another meeting at the mainspring house in brockton, because I wanted to work on a policy about housing and homelessness, she asked about that and we talked about what I found out, what I think can be done, at least propsed and how we can make a difference with this social issue and move toward a better tomorrow, even if it's just for a few people.  She then look at me nad said, see all of theose things, that's macro practice. That's what it's all about. She went on and talk about the leadership skills she recognized in me, I saw the issue, I questioned, I asked about it, I asked about who to talk to about making a difference and I went out and got that done. She told me "you came in and said you wanted nothing to do with policy, but guess what, all these work, phone calls you made, visits, interview, that's how policy starts: you recognize the problem and you want to bring it to other people's attention and hopefully one day, get a solution". So over all , she basically told me that there is no micro without macro and vise versa!!! So what is macro social work? The collaborative work we all do to bring changes in the social systems!