Community Practice Flashcards
A social worker organizes a group of families who are indignant about the care they receive at the local health center. The families want improved services and more courteous treatment. The group meets for several weeks and is now considering strategies for presenting their demands to the director. The most effective initial strategy for the group at this point is to:
Send the indigenous leaders of the group to meet with the director and present their demands, since they are the service recipients.
At a meeting of the tenant association, the tenants resolve to request management to evict the Smiths because their son is a troublemaker who has threatened others. The family does not participate in the association. The social worker should:
Suggest that a delegation meet with the Smiths to discuss the group’s concerns and encourage them to seek help.
A family service agency director resolves to develop social action projects in a mixed-income suburban community. The community’s decision makers are arrogant, socially powerful, wealthy, and politically influential. However, the group working with the agency has little influence. They live in the community’s older and less desirable areas. The group is upset by
school policies, which they feel have resulted in discriminatory educational programs that provide fewer resources for their neighborhood school. After repeated discussions with local officials, they realize these officials do not feel bound to respond to them. They are prepared to consider other means to influence local decision making. The overall objective of the group will probably be to:
Seek fundamental political and institutional change
What does enabling involve in the role of social worker?
Enabling involves helping groups identify objectives and assisting with the process of attaining them
A neighborhood association, concerned about area health and education problems, employs a community worker to explore the problems further and develop new programs. The worker initially establishes relationships with a variety of community representatives and involves residents in preliminary discussions about the problems. As the organization’s program develops and membership grows, the worker is likely to be concerned about:
Developing leadership
This model of community practice is based on the belief that in order to effect change, a wide variety of community people should be involved in planning, implementation, and evaluation. Key themes include the use of democratic procedures, voluntary cooperation, self-help, the development of local leadership, and educational objectives.
locality development model
A rational, deliberately planned, technical process of problem-solving with regard to substantive social problems, characterizes this model. The degree of community participation may vary. However, building community capacity or fostering radical or fundamental social change is not a major goal of this model of community practice.
Social planning model
Practitioners practising this model assume that a disadvantaged segment of the population needs to be organized in order to make demands on the larger community for increased resources or improved treatment. Key themes in this model are social justice, democracy, and the redistribution of power, resources, and decision making.
Social Action Model
The role of the social worker in the locality development model is that of:
Data analyzer and enabler
Which public program was the first systematic effort by the federal government to stimulate the full participation of community residents in planning and operating neighborhood-based social development and social service programs?
The Community Action Program of the Office of Economic Opportunity
A worker frequently asking a colleague for advice and accepting her direction is an example of:
informal authority
Informal authority can be observed when individuals without formal authority are voluntarily consulted by co-workers. Their authority rests in their knowledge and judgement rather than an ascribed role in the organization.
In community organization practice, a worker might emphasize collaboration between parties to achieve a particular strategy or change when there is:
Issue consensus
Collaboration in achieving a goal can only be employed when there is agreement on the goal, otherwise known as:
Issue consensus
In this role, a social worker helps link clients (individuals, groups, organizations, or communities) with community resources and services:
Broker
Alinksy argued that the most effective way to address community issues via protest is by:
distilling and rendering them into easily understood and simple symbols to make the confrontation understandable. Simply calling for a boycott or picketing without the use of the symbol makes the protest less effective.
In this question the community is described as fundamentally inactive and unaware of the roles it might take in repairing local institutions. The first steps the social worker should take involve raising consciousness about the possibility of change. As this process proceeds, the worker can start developing the community institutions that are required to initiate and regulate change. These activities fit within the definition of:
locality development
The use of rational problem solving and technical methods to develop new programs or new social welfare institutions best describes:
social planning
The 1960s federal policy of involving neighborhood residents in self-directed community organization activities and in the determination of program policy is called:
Maximum feasible participation
Credit unions, peer tutoring programs, and locally sponsored nonprofit housing corporations are examples of:
Self-help programs
AIDS ACTION best represents an example of:
An advocacy-brokerage program
AIDS Action defends the interests of individuals with HIV/AIDS, agitates for improved services and more research, and provides case services. It is an advocacy organization that also brokers services for clients and insures that they find services
After the organization has determined initial program objectives, the worker’s main task is to:
Help the members partialize and assign the tasks
The primary objective of the locality development model of community organization is to:
Strengthen the ability of people to work on their common interests.
For many years, social service and political leaders have stressed the importance of the community in improving social relationships, promoting social stability, and in realizing the American political ideals of inclusion and power sharing. As a result, social work community organization practice and strategy emphasize:
Strengthening democratic participation
A tenant association has problems with the landlord. He does not provide sufficient heat, sanitation, maintenance services, or hallway lighting, and will not discuss the building’s problems with the tenant association. The tenants ask a local agency for assistance, and a community worker is assigned to help. The worker’s approach is likely to adopt the:
Social action model
