Ignite Presentation

By completing this Ignite presentation assignment, students will develop skills in concise and impactful communication, effectively conveying complex social welfare issues to diverse audiences. Students will enhance their ability to identify and articulate unmet service needs within specific populations, while also honing their capacity to propose and advocate for policy changes aimed at improving conditions and opportunities. Furthermore, engaging in this assignment fosters proficiency in integrating social work values such as cultural responsiveness and social justice advocacy into strategic policy initiatives.

Instructions: Select ONE population of interest to use in an ignite presentation and video recording:

Complete the following:

Develop an Ignite presentation in which you discuss an identified service need of your selected population of interest. An Ignite presentation is a PowerPoint presentation in which 20 slides auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of 5 minutes, while the presenter speaks. Typically, each slide contains a visual image with minimal words.

The presenter(s) speaks for approximately 13 seconds per slide. Presentations are meant to ignite the audience on a subject (in this case, on a social welfare policy issue), for the purpose of expanding awareness, deepening thought, building social empathy, and inviting social action and social change.

Use your selected population of interest and address the following in your ignite presentation:

Ignite Presentation Outline

• Describe an unmet service need of your identified target population.
• Explain a vision of change to improve conditions or opportunities for the target population.
• Propose a viable policy change strategy to improve conditions or opportunities, to better meet the identified service needs of the target population.
• Explain how the change initiative would incorporate social work values such as cultural responsiveness or advancement of social justice.

Next, use Zoom or another digital recording software program to create a video of yourself delivering your Ignite presentation, based on the generic outline. Your video needs to show the slides and should show yourself, or at least have your voice presenting along with the slides. Place the video link into the last of your presentation slides.