A Study on the Types of Perception on Bullying in Social Service Agencies for the People with Disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 183-201
Author(s):  
Hongjik Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
The People ◽  
Service Agencies

scholarly journals Capacity Building and Empowerment: A panacea and a challenge for agency-university engagement

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 179-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar ◽  
Fabricio Balcazar ◽  
Edurne García Iriarte ◽  
Tina Taylor-Ritzler
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
The People ◽  
Building Process ◽  
University Engagement ◽  
Service Agencies

Capacity building is an effective strategy for promoting organizational change and/or improving the quality of social services. In this article I present an empowerment approach to capacity building. In doing so I propose a number of principles that can promote capacity building and collaboration between social service agencies and universities from an empowerment perspective: keeping the control of the capacity building process in the agency; developing competencies that matter to the people in the agency; engaging in supportive roles; maintaining a strengths-based approach to capacity building; focusing on sustainability, institutionalization and utilization of acquired skills; and paying attention to cultural and contextual issues. Further, the challenges and benefits of the empowerment approach to university-agency collaboration are discussed in this article.

Social Reality of the Drug Problem: New York's Lower East Side

1971 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-391
Author(s):  
Clayton Hartjen ◽  
Richard Quinney
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
Drug Problem ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Reality Construction ◽  
Service Agencies

The scope and nature of social problems are frequently a creation of the various organizations and agencies established to deal with some aspect of community concern. The "educational" and other activities of these groups can be seen as attempts at reality construction. Regarding these efforts, this study examined the kind and effectiveness of drug addiction programs sponsored by social service agencies in New York City's Lower East Side and found them to be wanting. The absence of drug programs and the inability of these agencies to effectively carry out projects of this (and any other) kind appears to be a consequence of the funding structure and the existence of conflict between agencies. It is argued, however, that these agencies can serve as a principal base from which community control over and ultimately any just solution to the drug problem may be initiated.

Building capacity in social service agencies to employ peer providers.

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren B. Gates ◽  
James M. Mandiberg ◽  
Sheila H. Akabas
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Service Agencies

Increasing Staff Sensitivity to the Black Client

1983 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 419-425
Author(s):  
Richard L. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Staff Development ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Service Agencies

Many human service practitioners working with black families lack a knowledge of black culture. Social service agencies must address this deficiency through the provision of staff development programs. Such programs, to be sound, need to be developed with an awareness of critical issues and principles.

Financial recession as a predictor of stress in human service professionals: The case of Cyprus

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Gregory Neocleous ◽  
Menelaos Apostolou
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Human Service Professionals ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
Current Financial Crisis ◽  
Service Agencies ◽  
Financial Recession

This article presents the first survey ever conducted in Cyprus in relation to stress in social service organizations as a result of budgetary cuts due to the financial recession the country entered in 2010. Social service professionals were asked whether and how they experienced the current economic crisis in their work. The aim of the study was to examine whether the recent economic crisis in Cyprus was a predictor for stress. This article has no intention of examining stress per se, but rather the general consequences for professionals working in governmental and non-governmental social service organizations. The purpose of the study is to examine whether the current financial crisis in Cyprus has affected the work of social service professionals. The participants in our study included social workers, psychologists and sociologists, as well as administrative staff from governmental and non-governmental social service agencies and volunteer organizations. In total, 205 professionals working in 200 social service agencies in Cyprus took part in this survey by completing a questionnaire. A focus group consisting of eight individuals was also formed. The results indicate that social service professionals have been significantly affected by the recent financial recession in Cyprus.

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