Assumptions
Macro-level change is a ___________ that requires thoughtful, deliberate and strategic analysis, planning, communication and intervention.
Process
With this strategy, social workers assess community needs and issues and the target systems to respond to those needs and then develop interventions plans.
Community planning
_____________ ____________ includes strategies of community organizing, planning, development, capacity building, and social action and change.
According to this theory individuals may be hooked on drugs because of the community in which they grow up.
Ecological theory
Macro practice is indirect social work practice
False
Macro social workers adhere to _________ _________ ______ _________ and advance the social work principles of social and economic justice.
With this strategy, social workers recognize that persuasion must occur at several levels: educating community constituencies, stakeholders and decision makers about the nature and scope of needs and issue.
Community Change
These type of practitioners work in a range of settings, including community and neighborhood-based organizations, faith-based organizations, community develop corporations and public development agencies.
Community Practitioners
According to this theory crime exists in a community because individuals see it around them and emulate the behavior.
Social Learning Theory
A coalition is a group of individuals and/or organizations with a common interest who agree to work together toward a common goal.
True
Macro social work occurs through partnerships with _________, _____________, and _____________.
Clients, constituencies, communities
With this strategy, I mobilize stakeholders to foster collective power, that can be used to engage or persuade stakeholders to address community needs and issues.
Community Organizing
This type of community shares activities. An activity would be a coalition of county mental health clinics.
Functional
According to this this theory children in foster care may have a bad outcome because of a breakdown in communication and care in the different systems that the child is involved in.
Systems theory
Community Practitioners seek weaker relationships and bonds within the community to help bridge the relationships outside the community.
False
Macro social work practice has at its core identifying and dismantling __________ __________, sexism, heterosexism, classism, ageism, ableism and other forms of marginalization, oppression and discrimination in communities, organizations, and public policy.
Structural racism
With this strategy, practitioners build and sustain skilled community based leadership, promote and train grassroots organizers, and foster support partnerships, collaborations, and coalitions.
Community capacity building
This type of community shares historic conditions or common problems. An example would be the Catawba Nation/
Solidarity
Macro practice includes __________ __________, __________ & __________, and _________ _________.
Community Practice, Administration & management, and policy practice
Ronald Dellums helped to impose comprehensive sanctions against South African in 1986 helping bring apartheid to an end.
True
Societal ills based on injustice, inequality, or inequity cannot be ameliorated or lessened without social workers individually and collectively understanding and addressing ___________ and __________ _______ _________.
Systemic and structural root causes
With this strategy, project activities are targeted to provide decent housing, a suitable living environment, and to expand economic opportunities for low- and moderate-income neighborhoods located in the unincorporated areas of the community. .
Community Development
This type of community has a shared affiliation. An example would be the Winthrop alumni association.
Shared interest and affiliation
According to this theory approaches to addressing homelessness in a community will be fragmented, chaotic and therefore ineffective because organizations do not work together to address this program.
Interorganizational Theory
Wangari Mathai was a Kenyan environmentalist and professor who became the second African woman to earn the Nobel Peace Prize.
False