Macro Practice

The three common aspects of macro practice include community development, community organizing, and policy practice (Martin, 2014). To look further at the three different aspects of macro practice community development is a more empowering approach since it is a mutual collaboration of multiple agencies and area organizations that provide support for community members that is not possible through a single human service organization (Martin, 2014). There would be no community development without community organizing, due to community development depends on the efforts that put forth by the community organizers (Martin, 2014). Then there is policy practice where human service professionals work with the political system to help influence

He founded the Children’s Aid Society which helped to address the issue of the overcrowding in the institutions (American Adoptions, 2016). The beliefs of the Children’s Aid Society were that the children would be better if they were placed with families than living on the streets or in the crowded institutions (American Adoptions, 2016). To be able to have children placed with families and help alleviate the overcrowding of the institutions Brace developed the “Orphan Train” which placed the children on the railways and sent them out west to families that would chose to care for them (American Adoptions, 2016). The children were not always chosen by families that gave them the proper care, but they were out of the institutions and off the streets which was Brace’s main focus. This was one of the first forms of the foster care system that we have in place today and helped to get children that were living on the streets or in institutions to families that were able to provide them with the care they needed. Charles Brace helped to influence social policy with setting up the Children’s Aid Society because it established the backbone of the foster care system we have in place today, giving children in need the forever home that they