scholarly journals Implementing choice-based models of social service: The importance of involving people who use services in reform processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-199
Author(s):  
John Healy ◽  
Madeleine Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Transition Costs ◽  
Barriers To Change ◽  
The People ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Social Service System

AbstractThis article focuses on the opportunities and challenges of introducing choice-based models of social services. Research has found that these models often provide better outcomes and are cost-effective, but the pace of their introduction is generally slow. There are often very deeply held assumptions about the capacity of the people using these services and the potential for change within the existing social service system. Using institutional and social movement theory, the authors seek to explain these barriers to change. Drawing on the experience of supporting the national roll-out of choice-based models in Ireland, the authors propose a number of strategies to accelerate the introduction of these types of models into social services. The authors find that one of the key ways to accelerate reform and reduce transition costs is design processes which have the voice of service users at the centre of the reform process.

scholarly journals Political Imaging Techniques Carried Out by Baitul Muslimin Indonesia (BASUMI) in Increasing Public Political Support for PDI Perjuangan Medan City

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-174
Author(s):  
Sutarto Sutarto ◽  
Suwardi Lubis ◽  
Katimin Katimin
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Imaging Technique ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Political Support ◽  
The Political ◽  
Good Image ◽  
The People ◽  
Service Activities ◽  
Community Trust

BAMUSI is a new breakthrough for PDI Perjuangan to restore the negative stigmatization directed at PDI Perjuangan so far. BAMUSI is here to build a good image of PDI Perjuangan which has only been buzzing and narrating as a national and religious based party. BAMUSI will make a movement towards Islamic understanding that is rahmatan lil 'alamin bagi for the nation. Political imaging techniques carried out by BAMUSI in increasing the political support of the people of PDI Perjuangan Medan, namely to carry out social services: Social service activities carried out by BAMUSI Medan City is an accurate strategy in approaching and touching the hearts of Medan people in fostering community trust. Delivering Assistance: The political imaging technique carried out by BAMUSI Medan City in increasing community political support for PDI Perjuangan is by channeling aid.

A trial of telecare for supporting care to the elderly in Liverpool

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 48-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew A Reeves ◽  
Nigel M Barnes ◽  
Tom Mizutani ◽  
Steve J Brown
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Home Gateway ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
The People ◽  
Provision Of Care ◽  
The City ◽  
Possible Cause

A pilot telecare system was trialled in Liverpool. It was used to support the provision of care to 21 of the city council's elderly and frail social services clients. A typical installation consisted of about 20 wireless, ambient sensors in the client's home. A home gateway device ran alerting algorithms designed to learn the normal patterns of user behaviour and to identify deviations from this in real-time. When deviations were detected, social service delivery teams were alerted to a possible cause for concern. The pilot service ran for about 30 months and included a period of examination by independent evaluators. The evaluation found that overall the people who used the service – both users and carers – were overwhelmingly pleased with it and viewed it as a great success.

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.

scholarly journals Critical Factors Affecting Sustainable Success of Social Service Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Mikyoung Lee ◽  
Marko Majer ◽  
Boyoung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service System ◽  
Service Delivery System ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Operation Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Service System

Increasing demand for various social services in accordance with the global social change in time requires a systematic and efficient system based on a user-oriented policy operation method beyond an administrative operation method of social services. Therefore, this study aimed to present a specific direction for the development of the social service system by empirically deriving and discussing the critical factors that can lead to sustainable success of the social service system. To this end, 12 factors in 3 areas were critically analyzed through a questionnaire survey and analysis on the basis of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method for the social service workers and users of the 50 Plus Foundation, an organization that helps the elderly in Seoul to continue their social participation. The analysis results confirmed that the service delivery system was the most important factor among the service delivery system, service administration, and service network, and, in particular, factors for users’ active system access, such as accessibility and participation possibility, were the most influential factors for sustainable success of the social service system. Ultimately, unlike in the past, system development and direction should be sought by considering service users rather than a one-sided policy approach of the government for the development and operation of the social service system.

scholarly journals BAKTI SOSIAL SEBAGAI UPAYA PENCEGAHAN PENYEBARAN VIRUS COVID-19 DALAM MEMASUKI FASE NEW NORMAL DI KELURAHAN LOA BUAH

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Kornelia Mina ◽  
Imelda Feneranda Seravia Tambi ◽  
Roberta Yutri
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Service Use ◽  
New Normal ◽  
The People ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
Special Challenge

ABSTRAK Penyebaran virus covid 19 pada tahun 2020 menjadi tantangan khusus bagi seluruh Negara dan berbagai aspek kehidupan. Peningkatan jumlah kasus yang terkofirmasi memberikan perhatian khusus bagi persiapan dan pencegahan meluas di dalam Masyarakat. Partisipasi dan kesadaran masyarakat sangat dibutuhkan untuk menurunkan jumlah kasus di wilayah Samarinda, khususnya Kelurahan Loa Buah. Kegiatan Bakti Sosial dilakukan kepada masyarakat kelurahan loa buah dan beberapa pedagang. Kegiatan pengabdian ini bertujuan untuk memotivasi masyarakat dalam penggunaan masker dalam kehidupan bermasyarakat. Bakti sosial dilakukan kepada masyarakat kelurahan Loa Buah dengan mensosialisasikan penggunaan masker kain dan kebiasaaan penggunaan masker. Setelah dilakukan bakti sosial dan penggunaan masker maka diharapkan dapat menjadi kebiasaan dalam kehidupan dimasa Pandemi Covid 19.   Kata Kunci: Covid 19, Bakti Sosial, Penggunaan Masker   ABSTRACT COVID-19 Pandemic virus in 2020 is a special challenge for all countries and various aspects of life. The increasing number of confirmed cases pays special attention to preparation and widespread prevention within the Society. Community participation and awareness is urgently needed to reduce the number of cases in the Samarinda area, especially Loa Buah Village. Social Service activities were carried out for the people of the Loa Buah sub-district and several traders. This service activity aims to motivate the community to use masks in social life. Social services were carried out to the people of the Loa Buah sub-district by socializing the use of cloth masks and the habit of using masks. After doing social services and using masks, it is hoped that they can become a habit in life during the Covid-19 Pandemic.   Key Words: Covid 19, Social Service, Use of Masks

The role of social partnership in modernizing the system of social services for older persons

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Rita Khamadeeva ◽  
Natalia Bolshakova
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Service System ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Service System

The article considers the role of social partnership in the modernization of the social service system for older people. It is noted that changes in the social sphere are necessary not because the social service system does not cope with its tasks, but because the changed reality, social problems and needs of older people make new demands on it.

Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-480
Author(s):  
Jeanne C. Marsh ◽  
Keith E. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Services Research ◽  
The University

The Center For Health Administration Studies (CHAS) is an interdisciplinary health policy and services research center located at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Since its inception, CHAS has pursued the mission of conducting and promoting research and knowledge development to reduce health inequities and improve access. The move of CHAS to the School of Social Service Administration from the Graduate School of Business in 1991 resulted in innovative programming reflecting the changing landscape of health care, passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicaid expansion, and the growing interest of social work researchers in social determinants of health, behavioral health and integrated health and social services. The success and distinction of CHAS over its eighty year history offers lessons to social work regarding the sustainability of a research center in a graduate school of social work.

Buddhism-based charity, philanthropy, and social work: A lesson from Vietnam

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 1075-1087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huong T Hoang ◽  
Trang T Nguyen ◽  
Jerry F Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Service System ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Social Service System

Private and public social services, including social work centers, are limited to disadvantaged Vietnamese people, such as orphans and people with HIV/AIDS. Buddhism-based organizations (BBOs) have been acknowledged as an avenue to extend social services in Vietnam. This article reviews the social service system and BBOs in Vietnam using secondary data and findings from an empirical study on Buddhist charitable giving. A proposed model linking BBOs to social work centers seeks to improve the efficacy and effectiveness of service delivery.

scholarly journals Service Quality - Determining Factors

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 102-105
Author(s):  
Laimutė Žalimienė
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service System ◽  
Quality Measurement ◽  
Distinguishing Characteristic ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Second Period ◽  
Social Service System

The goal of the paper is to present the development of social service system in Lithuania. The first period is from 1990 to 1998. It is stated that the first period is characterized by the rapid increase in the amount of social services. The second period started in 1998 and its distinguishing characteristic is an attention to the quality of social services. The issues and difficulties of quality measurement are discussed in the last part of the paper.

scholarly journals System and Types of Social Services

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (91) ◽  
pp. 49-53
Author(s):  
Zh. V. Sinkevich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Service System ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
Social Service System ◽  
Legal Entities

It has been established that, for many years, special legal entities of state and municipal forms of ownership were created as characteristic of the social protection of citizens. In the modern period of development of organizations, the designated relations are associated with the transfer of state functions to legal entities, regardless of their form of ownership and to individuals. This tendency manifests itself in the creation of a system within which small and medium-sized businesses are also involved in the provision of social services. The article presents an analysis of social services from the standpoint of the systemic construction of relations. It is proposed to understand the social service system as the elements resulting in the provision of social services, these relations are regulated by public and private norms. It is concluded that such services are provided by a special subject composition of organizations and individual entrepreneurs, as well as by state-authorized bodies that coordinate these relations, decide to classify citizens as needy. A comparative analysis of the legislative concept “social service system” and its differences from the “system of social services” is offered. Through the analysis of the convergence of private and public principles, the tendency of convergence of the norms of social security and civil law is revealed. It is proposed to consider the types of social services through the features of social services as a special type of service. A comparison of social service legislation and provisions on social entrepreneurship is given. Identifying trends in the development of law, the author concluded that the legislator, by transferring part of the authority to provide social services to subjects of social entrepreneurship, determines the area of responsibility of each subject of relations, develops a mechanism for providing services through a competitive basis of providers of social services. Social services can be provided by any entity, including non-profit organizations. Social services can be provided by any entity, including non-profit organizations.

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