Domestic Violence in Immigrant Communities : Case Studies

Domestic Violence in Immigrant Communities: Case Studies” is a freely accessible eCampus Ontario Pressbook containing case studies of immigrant women experiencing domestic violence to be used as educational materials. The contents were created by analysing closed legal case files of 15 immigrant women living in Ontario who experienced domestic violence. The comprehensive case studies that emerge from this research present domestic violence experienced by immigrant women in all its complexity, highlighting their unique vulnerability at the intersections of race, gender and immigration status. The book also highlights the different legal processes that these women encounter in seeking justice and the challenges they face in relation to re-establishing their own lives and the lives of their children. In addition to the cases, the book contains questions for reflection; a description of legal processes involved in DV cases, and a glossary of the terms used throughout the case studies. This interactive Pressbook is an ideal resource for social work and legal practitioners, including students in social service work, social work and law programs, in order to increase their understanding about the complexity of domestic violence cases in immigrant families and develop strategies for culturally informed interventions.

Indigenous Cultural Safety Training in Health, Education, and Social Service Work

Background: Indigenous Cultural Safety (ICS) training is a growing field of study; however, little consensus exists about how ICS is conceptualized and operationalized. This lack of consistency can lead to misinterpretation and misappropriation of Indigenous knowledges and histories that can further perpetuate colonial harms. Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to explore and characterize the academic literature related to the conceptualization and operationalization of ICS training within the fields of health, social services, and education. Methods: This scoping review protocol employs the Joanna Briggs Institute’s three-step search strategy to identify articles in the following databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, ERIC, and ASSIA. This protocol follows the PRISMA guidelines for Scoping Reviews (Joanna Briggs Institute, 2015; Tricco et al., 2018). Discussion: This review will add new knowledge by offering insights into the historic and contemporary approaches to defining and operationalizing ICS training in the health, education and social services fields. The results produced will be of interest to scholars and health, social services, and education providers looking to apply the most current and appropriate concepts and practices of ICS.

PENGARUH MOTIVASI DAN DISIPLIN KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA PEGAWAI (Studi pada Pegawai Negeri Sipil di Dinas Sosial Kabupaten Kendal)

The purpose of this study was to find out the Motivation and Work Discipline partially or simultaneously on Employee Performance (studies on Civil Servants at the Kendal District Social Service). The method used in this research is Multiple Regression Analysis. This research was conducted on Civil Servants in the Kendal Social Service Office of Kendal. The results showed that Motivation had a significant positive effect on Employee Performance (studies on Civil Servants in the Kendal District Social Service), Work Discipline had a significant positive effect on Employee Performance (Study on Civil Servants in the Kendal District Social Service).

INSTITUTE SUPERVISION AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN THE SOCIAL SERVICES OF KAZAKHSTAN

The paper presents issues on institutionalization of the social services sphere in Kazakhstan in the framework of social modernization. In particular, it is the issue of increasing professionalism of social workers and supervisory support of specialists who works in special social services. Sociological surveys were conducted using a questionnaire surveys, interviews of experts, social workers. The institutional approach to increasing professionalism and competence of social workers, as well as an effectiveness of social work, was investigated on the basis of public opinion analyses. Based on the results of the empirical and sociological-statistical studies, the most critical factors of social service work have been identified and substantiated. Kazakhstan model of professional support to the provision of special social services is seen in the design of a new institutional model as Cross-Functional Institute of Supervision. This study contributes to optimization of the social work system and effectiveness of social services in future.

Institutional mapping as a tool for resource consultation

This article explores how mapping is currently being used in social services research as well as practice, and discusses the potential for mapping to be a useful tool for resource consultants in the field. This article will review different mapping techniques, including community mapping, eco-mapping, journey mapping and institutional mapping, and discuss their purpose within research and professional practice. Using examples from the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System project, we describe the application of mapping in social service work, and how resource consultants can use these techniques in their own practice.

Filling the gaps: Unpaid (and precarious) work in the nonprofit social services

Unpaid work has long been used in nonprofit/voluntary social services to extend paid work. Drawing on three case studies of nonprofit social services in Canada, this article argues that due to austerity policies, the conditions for ‘pure’ gift relationships in unpaid social service work are increasingly rare. Instead, employers have found various ways to ‘fill the gaps’ in funding through the extraction of unpaid work in various forms. Precarious workers are highly vulnerable to expectations that they will ‘volunteer’ at their places of employment, while expectations that students will undertake unpaid internships is increasing the norm for degree completion and procurement of employment, and full-time workers often use unpaid work as a form of resistance. This article contributes to theory by advancing a spectrum of unpaid nonprofit social service work as compelled and coerced to varying degrees in the context of austerity policies and funding cutbacks.

The entanglement of the stuff and practice of human service work: A case for complexity

The fact that social welfare professions including social work, youth work and community work deal with the lives and relationships of human beings is far from controversial. What is contentious is that in light of increasing intellectual work on the nature of social practices there is a failure in the human services literature to adequately examine the interdependencies and entanglements between conceptualisations of the stuff that the helping professions deals with and understandings of practice. This article examines the nexus and mediations between the phenomena and practice of social service work. The case is made that human services and the human beings they deal with are often imagined and represented in one-dimensional, unambiguous, calculable and orderable ways that align with neo-liberal inspired and technical approaches to practice. I argue that these accounts are inadequate and I suggest that practices of care and the people engaged in such practices should be constituted as complex, unpredictable, wicked and emergent. A key to good practice in the people professions is acknowledging and attending to this complexity and aporia.