This presentation is a part of Policy Day . The goal is to give students, faculty, or community members insight into how public policy is developed and how professionals can help shape the higher-level decisions that affect people’s lives. I am joining professionals from other fields to come and present an introduction to policy practice from a social worker perspective. We will do this by reviewing who social workers are and what we do. Then we will explore why social workers focus on policy practice. Finally, we will consider some of the elements of policy practice.