Community Practice History
Community practice focuses on these two aspects with the goal of promoting systemic change.
What are communities and community organizations?
This theme underscores much of the new strategies of community organizing
Hint: Happiness/Laughter =
What is joy?
Mutual aid focuses on these kinds of basic needs that represent basic necessities for every human being.
What are Survival Needs?
The first question we ask when deciding to address local needs and resources.
Hint: Who, What, When, Where, &...
What is Why?
What are some modern-day federal welfare programs
TANF
SNAP
Medicare
Medicaid
SSI
This act, passed in 1935, established a permanent federal safety net providing unemployment, disability, and old-age benefits.
What is the Social Security Act?
The article focuses on this organization, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, which was a political organization to end the AIDS crisis.
Hint: a test you take in high school + a direction
This is the idea that you and the people you are working with are equals, rather than being over them.
Hint: the first five letters are a state of matter.
What is solidarity?
Next, you would want to recruit a group of people responsible for this task.
What is Planning?
This law, established in 1601, became the model for many of our social welfare programs today and represented the first involvement of the government in social welfare.
What is the Elizabethan Poor Law?
The first century that this article focuses on is what years?
What are 1917-2017?
New community organizing includes these three elements discussed in much of the content last week as well.
What are
Using humor as a community organizing strategy
Use of culture as an organizing tool
Protest as theater/carnival
Many mutual aid groups use this method of governance, where decision-making is made by all members, allowing them a say.
What is Consensus Decision-Making?
One method of reaching informants about local resources in an area?
Hint: these methods are also used when administering research surveys
Mailing or emailing surveys?
Recruiting friends or family?
Posting requests on social media?
Stopping people in public places?
These programs were implemented during the Great Depression to provide relief and were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What is the New Deal?
This organization, with the acronym ACOSA, focuses on strengthening community practice in social work and was founded in 1987.
What is the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration?
Many gay liberationists used a resource/ethos that is now recognized as politically important.
Hint: Many old bad movies would now be considered:
What is camp?
This concept implies that wealthy people are inherently better and more deserving of their wealth than poor people.
What is a Moral Hierarchy of Wealth?
Can you name some aspects of a community that are worth assessing to better understand it?
Physical Aspects
Infrastructure
Demographics
History
Culture
Institutions
Existing Groups
Government/Politics
Attitudes and Values
Etc.
This council organization was founded in 1952, representing the whole of social work education in the United States, including accrediting social work degrees.
What is the CSWE?
Checkoway's six distinct strategies of community change include what?
Mobilization
Action
Advocacy
Planning
Education
Development
The newfound humor, joy, and camp were attributed to the ACT UP organization and later influenced this organization based in London, which throws road parties to reclaim public spaces.
What is the RTS?
This is the idea that of dividing people into those who are deserving of mutual aid and those who are not, noted as one of the major pitfalls of mutual aid.
What are Deservingness Hierarchies?
You can ask these questions when determining what further information you need about local resources.
Hint: these questions are usually asked in assessments of poverty as well
Number and reasons for emergency room visits?
Number of places to buy fresh produce?
What is the percentage of car accidents involving alcohol?
Number of teen births in an area?
This American Nurse advocated for mentally ill and imprisoned individuals and lobbied for the creation of state mental institutions called asylums.
Who is Dorothea Dix?