Social Welfare
Government programs and policies that
are designed to promote well-being. The provision of
assistance to those who “needˮ it.
Social Welfare
This dimension of social work practice, defined by Gil, focuses on alleviating suffering resulting from systemic ill-fare, injustice, and oppression, especially among people considered "deserving poor;"
Amelioration
a legal status that signifies a person's membership in a state, granting them rights and obligations, and is often obtained through birth or naturalization
Citizenship
This historical moment is defined by the stock market crash of October 1929, where unemployment was approaching 15 million people in the US.
The Great Depression
Officially named the Housing Choice Voucher Program, is a federal program that provides rental assistance to low-income individuals and families
The Section 8 Program
This organization has a primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic human needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty.
National Association of Social Work (NASW)
This dimension of social work practice is focused on advocating, initiating, and implementing "top-down," incremental reforms of policies and services, to reduce the severity of injustice and oppression, but not to eliminate their root causes in the fabric of societies
Reform
rights necessary for individual liberty, civil or legal rights, rights to personal liberty, freedom of speech, and justice. Property ownership, freedom to conclude valid contracts.
Civil Citizenship
This movement was developed the help immigrants socialize to America and to overcome poor living conditions. Jane Adams and Ellen Gates Starr founded the Hull House in Chicago
Settlement Movement
This government agency was created to assist homeowners in securing financing by insuring mortgages.
Federal Housing Administration
This international organization focuses on developing action strategies towards addressing structural and personal barriers are central to emancipatory practice where the goals are the empowerment and liberation of people.
International Federation of Social Welfare
This dimension of social work practice is focused on spreading critical consciousness concerning societal realities, and facilitating involvement of social workers and people they serve, in social movements to overcome the root causes of injustice and oppression.
Structural Transformation
right to engage in the democratic process. Participation in the democratic exercise of political power, political rights also includes participation in the development of local public policy
Political Citizenship
This historic societies, developed by Mary Richmond, created programs such as the Friendly Visitors. Where social workers would visit the poor in their homes and model appropriate behavior.
Charity Organization Societies
the process whereby the character of a neighborhood changes through the influx of more affluent residents and investment.
Gentrification
A fundamental value guiding social work practice that refers to people's ability to control their own destiny
Self Determination
This dimension of social work practice is focused on controlling poor people, regulating their labor, and enforcing changes in their behavior, when they are considered immoral, "undeserving," and responsible for their own poverty, due to supposedly personal inadequacies
Control
The right to a job, within a range of occupational choices, that is unencumbered by race, gender and the impediments of class background.
Economic Citizenship
A period in the United States, primarily in the 1950s and 1960s, where African Americans fought for equality and an end to racial segregation and discrimination.
The Civil Rights movement
the emotional trauma a person experiences when his or her environment is devastated.
Root Shock
A particular type of social welfare programs where eligibility and benefit levels are determined by an individual or family's income and assets.
Means-tested programs
This dimension of social work practice is focused on counseling and "treatment," to facilitate submission and "constructive adjustment" to the "normal" realities of unjust and oppressive societies;
Adaptation
rights that enable access to those resources that allow individuals to live a civilized existence in accordance with the standards prevailing in society.
Social Citizenship
a series of federal programs launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939 to address the economic devastation of the Great Depression.
The New Deal
A historically Black neighborhood in Seattle that has been a hub for Black business and culture since the 1960's.
The Central District