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Institutional social welfare services

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Proactive; In place to prevent problems before they arise

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Residual services

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Come after there is an identifiable problem

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Colonial period

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Earliest social welfare system- Elizabethan Poor Laws

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Elizabethan poor laws

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English system- outlined public’s responsibility for poor

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Pre-civil war

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Residential institutions

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Friedman’s bureau

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Provide temporary assistance to newly freed slaves post civil war

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Progressive era

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Following civil war. Birth social work profession

8
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Pendulum economy

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Pendulum swings from strong belief in social responsibility during economic upheaval to emphasis on individual responsibility when economy strong

9
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Great Depression and new deal

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Social insurance and public assistance

Permanent involvement of federal government in both provision of social services and regulation of economy. Numerous social welfare systems created

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Social security act

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First comprehensive federal effort to ensure economic security through Long term protections of social insurance and public assistance

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WWII postwar economy

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Federal government more involved in economy as managed war effort.

GI Bill

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GI Bill

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Services readjustment act 1944: funds education, training, employment services, home loans and business loans

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Social reform years

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Creating medical care- Medicaid and Medicare.

. War on poverty

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War on poverty

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1960’s series of policies and programs to fight poverty. Economic opportunity act 1964-
Renewed emphasis on social justice fair distribution of resources and opportunities
Food stamps, head start, job training, employment incentives.

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Retrenchment Years

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1980’s-90’s has backlash against anti poverty programs. Devolution, Welfare Reform 1996. TANF created to replace AFDC. Limit years on welfare. State & local better than feds to control social services

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Devolution

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Diminished role of federal government in anti poverty programs

Cutbacks and local control

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New millennium

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War on terror- becomes focus. Great Recession- economis Support through support housing market & TARP (troubled assist release program) for social institutions. Grow inequality between income & wealth.

Affordable care act
War on terror
Economic recovery

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Cash assistance

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Transfer of money from government to a person in need

TANF

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In-kind benefits

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Aide in form of tangible items.

SNAP, housing assistance

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Entitlements

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People guaranteed help if they meet certain criteria. No time limit of that receipt. Social security

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Public assistance programs

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Mean-tested programs people must be poor to qualify. Medicaid, SNAp, TANF

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Private services

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Nongovernmental groups. Nonprofit or profit can provide services directly on behalf of government HMO

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OASDI

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Old age survivors insurance SSDI
Benefits to people who paid while they were working. Provides benefits when retire or become disabled.
Cash assistance program

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TANF

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Temporary Assistance yo family in need. Cash aide program. Family must fall below poverty line determined by each state.

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SSI

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Supplemental security income.

Cash assistance for elderly or a person with disability whose income is below poverty line.

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Medicare

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Health coverage for those eligible to receive OASDI

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Department Veterans Affairs

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Veteran eligible to receive health services throughout lifetime

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Affordable Care Act

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Provide health coverage for uninsured because they lack employee-based or government based healthcare.

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SNAP

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Low income purchase food. Formerly food stamps

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Section 8

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Privately owned apartments officially designated by local housing authority available to voucher recipients.

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Public Housing

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Residential units federally built complexes administrated by local authorities

32
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Charity organization society

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COS - 1877. Goal is to discover what causes poverty among individuals, eliminate causes therefore ridding society of poverty.
Focused on rehabilitating individuals

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Mary Richmond

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COS

34
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Settlement Movement

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Jane Addams in order to help poor , workers had to live within community and provide services from their dwelling

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Jane Addams

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Settlement movement

36
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Dr Abraham flexner

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1915 challenged social work as profession it lacked unique methodology

37
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Bertha Capes Reynolds

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  1. Progressive social work movement
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Progressive social work movement

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  1. Psychoanalytical Tradition emphasis on individual
39
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National counsel on social work

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  1. Define what social work is.
40
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Frumkin & O’Connor

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  1. Profession abandoned working with both clients and the environment and in its place put psychologically orientated view of social work.
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Specht & Courtney

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1994..social work abandoned the historical mission of social work to embrace psychotherapy and focus totally on individual

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Ehrenreich

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  1. Argued historical tension between individual and societal changes is based on values and assumptions- human behavior governed by both individual and social contribution
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Crisis intervention vs

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ongoing need

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Helping who we know vs

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Helping strangers

45
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Impartial professional vs

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Advocate.

Must know when to speak and what is best to let them step forward

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Impartial advocate

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Not impose own values on client instead helping them become empowered to advocate for themselves.

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Worthiness argument

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Determine worthiness ignores social condition

Based Elizabeth Poor Laws

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Elizabethan poor laws outline

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Poor categorized as worthy or unworthy-poor included widows, orphans, elderly, and disabled-unworthy were able bodied men-aide for poor must first come family than if not aide- legal residency in community to be eligible- assistance is temporary must get work or marry.

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Civil war and postwar

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First federal intervention