scholarly journals Intentional Leadership Planning and Development: The Collective Responsibility to Educate More Social Work Leaders

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 330-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christa C. Gilliam ◽  
Marquis A. Chandler ◽  
Huda A. Al-Hajjaj ◽  
Angelica N. Mooney ◽  
Halaevalu F. O. Vakalahi
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Service Leadership ◽  
Service Agencies

Social workers have the capacity and skills to assume leadership positions in social service agencies. Social work educational institutions must continue to prepare and encourage graduates to seek leadership roles in social service agencies. Social work curriculum and post-graduate professional development are significant avenues to ensure social workers will be excellent choices as organizational leaders and administrators. This article offers a review of the literature to identify gaps and ways to cultivate leaders through intentional recruitment and continuous training of social workers in human service leadership and administration.

Police Social Work

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
George T. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Substance Use And Abuse ◽  
Service Agencies

Police social workers are professionally trained social workers or individuals with related academic degrees employed within police departments or social service agencies who receive referrals primarily from police officers. Their primary functions are to provide direct services such as crisis counseling and mediation to individuals and families experiencing social problems such as mental illness, alcohol and substance use and abuse, domestic violence, and child abuse, among others. Additional functions of police social workers include training police officers in stress management, mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, and child abuse; providing consultation to police officers; and counseling police officers and their families.

Social Work Assessment: Route to Clienthood––Part II

1986 ◽  
Vol 67 (10) ◽  
pp. 587-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Specht ◽  
Riva Specht
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Psychosocial Assessment ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Decision Point ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Work Assessment ◽  
Service Agencies

Applicants for social service agencies should not be designated as “clients” before they have completed the psychosocial assessment process. In Part II of this two-part article, the final decision point in this process––negotiation of a contract––is described and the analytic utility of the model is discussed.

Social Work Research in Social Service Agencies

1988 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Schilling ◽  
Steven P. Schinke ◽  
Maura A. Kirkham ◽  
Nancy J. Meltzer ◽  
Kristine L. Norelius
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Service Agencies

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.

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