Cognitive Mapping and GIS for Community-Based Resource Identification

2013 ◽  
pp. 685-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyn Kathlene
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Systems Of Care ◽  
Jefferson County ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Distribution Of Resources

This chapter describes and analyzes the effectiveness of two methodological techniques, cognitive mapping and geographical information systems (GIS), for identifying social service resources. It also examines the processes used to integrate hand-drawn map information into geocoded data points and provides recommendations for improving efficiency and precision. As a first step to integrate Jefferson County social service delivery into community-based child welfare “systems of care” (SOC), both formal and informal services had to be identified. Cognitive mapping, a process by which participants draw visual representations of geographical areas, was conducted with 247 participants in Jefferson County, Colorado. Over 3,500 resources were identified and entered into a GIS to analyze the availability, capacity, and distribution of social services in the county and within communities. Identification of community resources via cognitive mapping and GIS analysis provide: (1) a comprehensive database of existing services; (2) a basis to build communication networks and cooperation among government and community providers; (3) the ability to create an efficient system that avoids duplication of efforts; (4) an understanding of the geographical distribution of resources; (5) the identification of resources lacking in the county and specific communities; and (6) knowledge differences among diverse participant groups.

Cognitive Mapping and GIS for Community-Based Resource Identification

2010 ◽  
pp. 369-387
Author(s):  
Lyn Kathlene
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Systems Of Care ◽  
Jefferson County ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Distribution Of Resources

This chapter describes and analyzes the effectiveness of two methodological techniques, cognitive mapping and geographical information systems (GIS), for identifying social service resources. It also examines the processes used to integrate hand-drawn map information into geocoded data points and provides recommendations for improving efficiency and precision. As a first step to integrate Jefferson County social service delivery into community-based child welfare “systems of care” (SOC), both formal and informal services had to be identified. Cognitive mapping, a process by which participants draw visual representations of geographical areas, was conducted with 247 participants in Jefferson County, Colorado. Over 3,500 resources were identified and entered into a GIS to analyze the availability, capacity, and distribution of social services in the county and within communities. Identification of community resources via cognitive mapping and GIS analysis provide: (1) a comprehensive database of existing services; (2) a basis to build communication networks and cooperation among government and community providers; (3) the ability to create an efficient system that avoids duplication of efforts; (4) an understanding of the geographical distribution of resources; (5) the identification of resources lacking in the county and specific communities; and (6) knowledge differences among diverse participant groups.

Cognitive Mapping and GIS for Community-Based Resource Identification

2011 ◽  
pp. 326-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyn Kathlene
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Systems Of Care ◽  
Jefferson County ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Distribution Of Resources

This chapter describes and analyzes the effectiveness of two methodological techniques, cognitive mapping and Geographical Information Systems (GIS), for identifying social service resources. It also examines the processes used to integrate hand-drawn map information into geocoded data points and provides recommendations for improving efficiency and precision. As a first step to integrate Jefferson County social service delivery into community-based child welfare “systems of care” (SOC), both formal and informal services had to be identified. Cognitive mapping, a process by which participants draw visual representations of geographical areas, was conducted with 247 participants in Jefferson County, Colorado. Over 3500 resources were identified and entered into a GIS to analyze the availability, capacity, and distribution of social services in the county and within communities. Identification of community resources via cognitive mapping and GIS analysis provide: (1) a comprehensive database of existing services; (2) a basis to build communication networks and cooperation among government and community providers; (3) the ability to create an efficient system that avoids duplication of efforts; (4) an understanding of the geographical distribution of resources; (5) the identification of resources lacking in the county and specific communities; and (6) knowledge differences among diverse participant groups.

scholarly journals Pakiwaitara - social work sense for supervision

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-31
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn Elkington
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Definition Of

Pakiwaitara (Elkington, 2001) came about as a gap identified in social service delivery between western, middle class, dominant culture and the healing of Māori whānau in crisis. While education has responded to this gap by offering bicultural training, ensuring more Māori components within degree programmes, etc, social services statistics are still high for Māori and indigenous peoples. It has helped to shift the definition of cultural supervision to inside the definition of specialised professional supervision (Elkington, 2014), but now continued invisibility of values and beliefs, particularly that of Tauiwi, exacerbate the problem. The challenge must still be asserted so that same-culture practitioners are strengthened in same-culture social work practice (eg, by Māori, for Māori), and to avoid when possible, or otherwise by choice, white dominant-culture practice, for all-and-every-culture social work practice (eg, by Pākehā, for everyone).

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.

The Corporate Role in the Not-So-Great Society

1983 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 151-159
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Rivlin
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Corporate Philanthropy ◽  
Great Society ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
The Social ◽  
Partial List ◽  
The Many ◽  
The U.S

Direct federal support and corporate philanthropy are two of the many mechanisms of social service delivery in the U.S. The ongoing federal retrenchment reflects both a public decision to reduce the overall level of spending and a pressure to reallocate responsibility for providing some social services from one source to another. The success of this reallocation depends on the match between provider abilities and incentives and the characteristics of the social programs demanded from that provider. The author draws from theory and recent history a partial list of criteria for policymakers to consider in deciding who should be responsible for providing various public services.

Creating Relatives You Don't Have: Kinship Care, Social Services and Fictive Kin

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Youngblood ◽  
Michelle Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Kinship Care ◽  
Kinship Caregivers ◽  
Relative Caregivers ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Fictive Kin

What can we learn about kinship care and the effective delivery of supportive social services when we talk to relative caregivers in San Francisco, California? Practicing anthropology in a social service setting with kinship caregivers raises some interesting questions regarding "fictive kin" and effective social service delivery. Our findings from a four-year mixed methods study of kinship care families illuminate the ways that kinship families rely on a community-based social service program in a familial manner. Furthermore, the perception of social service providers functioning like extended family members both increases client satisfaction with the services as well as the ability of social service workers to build positive working relationships with clients.

Shifting Paradigms to End Violence

2018 ◽  
pp. 85-109
Author(s):  
Ann Russo
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Intimate Violence ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Transformative Justice ◽  
Legal Advocacy ◽  
Community Organizers ◽  
Criminal Legal System ◽  
Feminist Work

This chapter explores feminist-of-color led efforts to shift the feminist-informed and institutionalized approach to sexual and intimate violence that is now practiced in social service and legal advocacy agencies, with an exclusive reliance on the criminal legal system as a method of accountability for the perpetuation of violence. Since the early 2000s, the critical engagement of this institutionalization gained momentum with the innovative approaches of community accountability and transformative justice that (re)politicize feminist work to end violence. In this chapter, I illustrate how community accountability and transformative justice approaches shift the focus and direction of antiviolence efforts from social services and legal advocacy to community-based movement building, from viewing violence as a problem of individual conflict to one rooted in systems of oppression, from agency expertise to community-based knowledge and leadership, and from punishment to accountability. In the chapter, I draw from the work of many scholars, community organizers, and activists as well as projects and organizations.

Government profiles as perceived by governments’ NPO partners in Chinese social service delivery

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
YANWEI LI ◽  
XIANLIN NI ◽  
HAN WEI
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
The Government

Abstract Social services in China nowadays are increasingly coproduced by both government and non-profit organizations (NPOs). However, we still know little about how NPOs perceive their government partners in social service delivery. Using a Q methodology, this study remedies this gap and identifies three profiles – namely, government as a distant facilitator, government as a hands-off collaborator, and government as a prudent principal. Also, it has been found that two conditions – namely, NPOs’ development stage and funding resources – influence their perceptions on government in social service delivery. These three profiles provide new insights into NPOs’ perceptions of their government partners in social service delivery, and they add new building blocks to existing literature, specifically on the government–NPO relationship in China.

scholarly journals E-government Potential in Social Service Delivery: Regional Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 04003
Author(s):  
Vasyl Popovych ◽  
Serhii Shcherbyna ◽  
Halyna Barshatska ◽  
Olena Baluchtina
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The State ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Information Support ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Social Advertising ◽  
Definition Of

The article identifies the potential for introducing a system of electronic social services in the context of electronic government development in Ukraine. The definition of an electronic social service as a social service is given, fully or partially provided with the help of social protection institutions online services and the population social services, to individuals, certain social groups who are in difficult life circumstances. It has been determined that the development of modern information use and communication technologies and the Internet already allows the use of various forms of providing and receiving electronic social services, is spreading due to the state policy of public services digitalization ("the state in a smartphone"), among which a special demand is registration in electronic the form of social benefits, benefits, pensions and the like. According to the results obtained, the greatest potential for introduction into the social service system is possessed by social services, psychological online consultations, distance learning and socio-economic services. Among the factors for optimizing the implementation of electronic social services, the most significant identified are the following increases in budget funding, computer population, information support for the introduction of the electronic social services system through social advertising, increasing the level of technical support and access to the Internet.

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