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.

Child Protection

2021 ◽  
pp. 177-204
Author(s):  
Sanford N. Katz
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The One ◽  
Service Agencies ◽  
Parent Child

This chapter studies the parent–child relationship through the lens of child protection laws, with emphasis on the issues of state intervention into that relationship. Throughout the history of the laws governing the complex relationship of parent, child, and state, there has been a struggle between parental authority and family privacy, on the one hand, and the state's responsibility of guarding the best interests of the child, on the other. The rhetoric has been that parents have the basic right to raise their children as they see fit, subject to their not overstepping the bounds of reasonableness in all aspects of childrearing. However, parental rights are not unlimited. Historically, the state, the ultimate parent who looks after all the children in society under the parens patriae concept, has a right to subject parents to public scrutiny and legal examination. In the United States, in the main, child protection in the form of child welfare services in the latter part of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is basically the responsibility of the states. State social service agencies under the executive branch deliver certain social services themselves but more commonly for reasons of economy contract for foster care and adoption services with private social service agencies, which they monitor. The chapter then looks at the federal government's impact on the child protection systems in the states.

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.

Family Service Agencies: Responding to Change in a Conservative Decade

1992 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Elias Alperin
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Family Service ◽  
Family Service Agencies ◽  
Responding To Change ◽  
External Forces ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Service Agencies

During the 1980s much of the concern in social services has focused on the impact of external forces on agencies—namely the increase in the problems of the American family with a simultaneous decrease in commitment from the U.S. government for funding and services. A nationwide survey of Family Service America, Inc., member agencies was undertaken in an attempt to assess partially the impact of these environmental changes on voluntary social service agencies. The data indicate that the increased needs of the community took precedence over the decline in public sector support. Response to a conservative environment led to interorganizational changes, which allowed for program expansion in an attempt to meet the increased demand for human services.

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.

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
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