Social Service Settings
Organizations that actually deliver social services.
What are Agencies?
Agency has service motive rather than profit motive, Uses earnings for programs and services
What is Non-Profit?
Defines boundaries of service delivery
What is Political Jurisdiction?
Funding falls under different federal administrative bodies
What is Federal and State Funding?
Exchanges of information reduces isolation and provides mutual support
What are Self-Help Groups?
Primarily provide services for the members within them
What are Associations?
Lines between public and private services are blurred
What is Linked Classification?
Unequal Distribution of resources and few professional staff
What are Rural Settings?
Sums of money awarded to those who submit applications to fund particular programs
What is a Grant?
Involvement useful in addressing power inequalities is service delivery and in ensuring empowerment saturates all faces of practice
What is Consumer Involvement?
Providing social services is main purpose
What are Primary Settings?
Agencies, organizations, or associations with religious affiliation
What is Sectarian?
Overcrowding, Unemployment, poverty, ever changing population
What are Urban Settings?
Third party payment mechanism where (Blank) companies provide coverage for services
What is Insurance Reimbursement?
Agencies dispute who gaing funds to provide for certain types of service or work with particular clients.
What is Agency Turf?
Ex: Schools, Hospitals, Court Services, etc.
What are Host Settings?
Type of for-profit private practice
What is Independent Practice?
Has less access to social service resources
What are Rural Settings?
Public agencies contract private agencies to fulfill service mandates
What are Purchase of Service Contracts?
Government support of private social services rather than expanding own social services
What is Privitization?