Social issue chosen was Poverty intersection with Patriarchy/sexism
Population: low income mothers
Problem: Intimate Partner Violence, why they don’t leave.

Focus and discuss on poverty in Canada and how it’s affects the targeted population and problem

• why this is a social issue ( think of goals of social work and how this represents what is public and political given extent of issue. What intersections are key)
• who is affected (demographic information and quantitive data)
• how they are affected and what specific problems are they more likely to experience (be specific and not just analysis i.e., Racism versus how data shows ______ problem in living)
• what social, political and economic forces are contributing to/producing/ maintaining the issue
• what are the different ideological perspectives on the issue?
• what strategies for change are being initiated?
• What changes are not being addressed from a social justice perspective?