“New new media” in social welfare

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-43
Author(s):  
Sergo Kuruliszwili
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Desk Research

The article is describing the use of ICT tools in social welfare, equally in area of social work, vocational training for social service and shaping the social policy. Based on the desk research the author explains the basic issues related to the implementation of new media tools into the practice of social work – case studies – and characterizes the potency of digitalization in the process of modelling the social welfare, innovative preventions measures and the improving the qualifications of social services.

scholarly journals FAITH-BASED SOCIAL WORK SERVICES: THE ANALYSIS OF THE MOSQUE CONTRIBUTION IN SRI LANKA

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Field Observation ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interview Survey

The mosque is a prime Islamic institution to articulate its vision and carry the engagement in the holistic development of the community as a community development Centre. The social service works are much highlighted and encouraged in Islam. The purpose of the study to investigate the mosque engagement in social works in two areas namely the welfare programmes and human services. This paper is mainly relied on the analysis of the data collected from the interview survey administered among the randomly selected mosque island-wide and field observation along with the review of the records and documents. The findings reveal that the mosque engagement in social services is up to the mark in both areas under the investigation. Moreover, the mosque people most likely pay attention to the social activities specially during the difficult time caused by the natural or communal disasters. This paper may provide the concerned people the idea and information to design the mosque programme in social works.

scholarly journals Social Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis in China in 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (16) ◽  
pp. 5896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan Lu ◽  
Zehao Cai ◽  
Bin Chen ◽  
Tao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Social Suffering ◽  
The Social ◽  
Major Player

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic has catapulted China into a serious social and political crisis. This article focuses upon how Chinese social policy has responded to the Covid-19 crisis. It reveals that the Chinese welfare state has woven a comprehensive social safety net to mitigate the social suffering of Chinese society in the mid- and post-crisis periods. Different types of social policy programs have been combined and synthesized, including social insurance, social assistance, and social welfare arrangements. Facing the challenges of the new risks caused by the pandemic, the collaboration of the Chinese state and intermediary social welfare organizations has played a crucial role in providing both cash benefits and social services (benefits in kind). For the first time, social policy in China has acted as a major player for coping with the negative outcomes of a pandemic. This article concludes that the pandemic-related crisis has justified an interventionist approach and logic, driven by the state’s welfare system, which favors a model of “big government”. However, this model also requires justification and legitimation.

scholarly journals Välfärden, samhällskritiken och medierna

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lundälv Jörgen
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
National Board ◽  
International Media ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Systems

Welfare, critique and the media – social workers’ voices in podcasts in social policy and social workSocial workers and social policy researchers can engage in social work and critical social policy, in traditional media and in the new media. In recent years, the social media have been increasing in both the international media systems and in the media system in Sweden. One channel for social workers to use to be able to make their voice heard in society is to participate, debate and discuss social policy in podcasts. In 2016, the Union for Professionals, Akademikerförbundet SSR, developed ”Social Services Podcasts”. At the same time the National Board of Health and Welfare introduce a new podcast on social services and health care that is called ”Podcast in the Deep”. This article examines voices and themes in social policy and social work in a total of 112 programmes in two podcasts: ”Socialtjänstpodden” and ”In Depth” during the years 2016–2019. There are several challenges for the storytelling tradition and social criticism in social policy and social work in podcasts, which is highlighted in this article.

scholarly journals Developing specialists’ skills of in social sphere in the context of continuous education

2021 ◽  
pp. 228-240
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Sychova ◽  
Larysa Khyzhniak ◽  
Svitlana Vakulenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Professional Skill ◽  
Development Working ◽  
Continuous Education ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social

The article analyzes the impact of the transformation of professional activities of specialists working in the social sphere on the new approaches development to providing their continuous education. It is proved that continuous education is a professional improvement that is realized through specialists’ acquiring relevant competencies in the process of their development. It has been emphasized that there is a need for sociological support for the specialists' continuous education working in the social sphere, which includes the formation of competencies that develop a sociological imagination, the ability to construct social problems and ways to solve them in the field of social work. It has been found that sociological imagination plays a dual role in the practice of social work: on the one hand, it enables specialists to adequately perceive their professional role, to make aware of their functions following the new social reality, and on the other – to take into account the status features of different recipients of social services in an unstable social environment. The conceptual model of specialists' professional skill development working in the social sphere in the context of continuing education has been proposed. It considers the specific features of providing social and rehabilitation services in the conditions of decentralization of the social service system, and workers' training rendering social and rehabilitation services according to various programs, taking into account the peculiarities of social agencies and institutions. The paper presents the subject matter of classes contained in a curriculum developed by the authors’ educational program for conducting professional skill development courses for employees of territorial social service centres (provision of social services) and geriatric boarding houses in the Kharkiv region. The interconnection between the specialists' professional skills development working in the social sphere and the development of normative and legal, social, methodological, management, communicative and empathetic, conflictology and ethical competencies has been substantiated following the provisions of sociological imagination put forward by P. Sztompka.

scholarly journals The purposes of cultural supervision

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 20-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anaru Eketone
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types

If you are working in the social services sector, over 40 and Māori, chances are that you will have been asked to provide cultural supervision for a younger Māori worker. However, when you ask what do they mean by cultural supervision, after a slightly panicked look, you can get a variety of different answers. They all know that it is supposed to be done, that it is considered important, in fact some are required by their employers or contracts to have it, but until very recently few seem to know what they actually wanted. This article reports on a brief research project as part of a Masters in Social Welfare programme that interviewed Māori social workers and Māori and Pākehā social work managers about their expectations and experiences of cultural supervision. The participants were asked four questions about the purpose of cultural supervision, who should get cultural supervision, the qualities of a cultural supervisor and problems they had encountered in cultural supervision. Four different types of cultural supervision are identified

scholarly journals Socio-political work during the election race

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-85
Author(s):  
Svitlana Bondar ◽  
Rostyslav Tsimokha
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social

The article offers an analysis of political parties: their essence, functions, image formation, the role of the party as a mediator between the government and society, the activities of parties in elections. The features of the social work of political parties are shown, on the example of the political party «Team of Sergei Rudyk. A time of change!». Mechanisms, basic approaches, the most common methods and techniques of social work with people are analyzed. The main theoretical strategies and ideas of social work are presented. Position of the political party «Team of Sergei Rudyk. A time of change!» is that first, the solution of social problems is discussed before it will be accepted and even after it has been adopted. On the party’s website https://www.rudyk.org/news/page/4/, the main projects of social work are illustrated. The publication gives the main recommendations for improving the efficiency of social work: the creation of a mechanism to help youth in self-determination in choosing the profession of social worker, to extend forms and directions of professional training of social workers, to increase expansion in the number of periodicals covering the work of social services, centres, social workers. The formation of social policy occurs based on information received from the collection of statistical data and the conduct of sociological studies. Understanding this information allows you to identify the social tasks. The realization of socially significant goals and social problems solution have been organized through social projects and social programs, which form a significant part of social policy.

Consumer Opinion and Social Policy: A Research Review

1976 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Research Review ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
The Social

ABSTRACTDevelopments in the realms of social work practice, writing and research have provided fuel for the claim that the opinion of the consumer should exercise a formative influence in the development of policies impinging on the social services. However, it is difficult to decide when the opinion of the consumer has been understood. Also, even when the views of consumers are known, the question of how these views are utilized in the formulation of policies remains problematic. Furthermore, weaknesses in the research strategies of recent studies limit the applicability of policy recommendations which occur in this literature.

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.

SOCIAL SERVICE CENTERS – NEW ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS IN THE MUNICIPALITY

2021 ◽  
Vol specjalny (XXI) ◽  
pp. 755-765
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Ura
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
Definition Of

Social services related to activities aimed at meeting the basic needs of society are an important factor activating local communities. Commune self-governments undertook such projects on the basis of general provisions of the Act on Public Finance and commune self-government. On January 1, 2020, the Act on the provision of social services by social service centers, adopted on July 19, 2019, entered into force, specifying the scope of social services, the method of creating social service centers and their organizational structure. The study presents the basic issues concerning the definition of social services in the doctrine and in the aforementioned Act, and moreover, attention was paid to the method of establishing centers provided for by law: either as new organizational units of the commune or transforming the existing social welfare centers. Tasks in the field of social services were defined as own, non-obligatory tasks, therefore communes were left to assess the need to create such centers. The organizational structure of the center is also briefly presented, with attention being paid to the legal position of the director of the social services center

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