SOCW 6101 Discussion -Week 4 Discussion - Week 5 COLLAPSE Discussion: Community Social Work Have you ever wondered why some areas appear to be safe, clean, and filled with many varied businesses,...

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SOCW 6101
Discussion -Week 4





Discussion - Week 5











Discussion: Community Social Work


Have you ever wondered why some areas appear to be safe, clean, and filled with many varied businesses, while others appear run down and lined with only check-cashing centers, fast-food restaurants, and liquor stores? As a macro social worker, you often will see that communities thrive and falter due to the resources available. The ways in which society provides and allocates resources disproportionately benefits certain groups while harming others through lack of resources or displacement.


All communities have strengths despite their challenges. Use of the strengths-based perspective helps you to identify the potential strengths of a community and how to advocate for its members to obtain the resources and services they need to be successful.


To Prepare



  • Identify characteristics that represent your community. Then, take a picture that represents these characteristics in your community. Note that your photo does not need to be literal—it can be symbolic.


By Day 3



Posta response to the following:



  • Includeapicture you took that represents the characteristics you identified in the community.

  • Provide a description of the community.

  • Explain the strengths and challenges associated with that community based on its characteristics.

  • Explain how you could utilize community strengths to address their challenges.

  • Identify at least three (3) macro-practice skills and explain how you would use these skills to help the community address their challenges.



Support your post with examples from the course text and any other resources used to respond to this Discussion. Demonstrate that you have completed the required readings, understand the material, and are able to apply the concepts. Include a full reference of resources at the bottom of the post.


By Day 6



Respondto at least two colleagues:



  • Identify a role a social worker might take when working with the community identified by your colleague. Provide a specific example of what that role might look like.


    OR



  • Describe two social work skills your colleague could use when practicing with this community.






Answered 1 days AfterSep 27, 2022

Answer To: SOCW 6101 Discussion -Week 4 Discussion - Week 5 COLLAPSE Discussion: Community Social Work Have you...

Parul answered on Sep 29 2022
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Dear All,
Good Day to You! This week's discussion is very intriguing and
interesting as it offers us an opportunity to delve deeper beyond the facts. By the virtue of this assignment, I have selected the picture which is very close to my heart as I want to help to eradicate this from my community. Even though African Americans constitute 13% of the population in the USA, it accounts for staggeringly disproportionate bytes of the nation's homeless population. This picture is from Los Angles where there are allegedly more opportunities for employment. There is certainly a disproportion of resources leading to skewness in society.
Strengths and Limitations
I strongly believe that one of the primary strengths of the city is the booming industries and opportunities to connect with employment. This can be leveraged to create more opportunities for others that can help to eradicate the problem of...
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