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Community Organizing

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

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“Our first task in approaching another people, another culture, another religion, is to take off our shoes, for the place we are approaching is Holy. Else we may find ourselves treading on [people’s] dreams. More seriously still, we may forget that God was here before our arrival.”
Max Warren

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

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DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING:

AS A METHOD OF SOCIAL WORK

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

  • It’s practice is based on a body of knowledge & principles ...

It is practiced by professionally trained social workers

HELPING PROCESS PROCEEDS FROM:

  • Analysis of base line data on community problems & needs;
  • People participation;
  • Planning their solutions;
  • Implementation of plans;
  • Monitoring & Evaluation.
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CO’S GOALS & OBJECTIVES ARE:

  • To empower the people;
  • To become self-reliant;
  • To become a self-managed community.
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Community Organizing adheres to the concept of integrated & coordinated efforts with other sectors of the community & in employing inter-disciplinary approach for effective results.

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CO’S CONCERN:

  • Systems dysfunction;
  • The elements in the environment that had made the individual (communal) life stressful ergo dysfunctional.

CO’S INTERVENTIONS:

  • Bringing about the necessary changes in the functions, policies, programs and services or practices of existing organizations and institutions rather than engaging in clinical treatment.

CO’S INTERVENTIONS:

  • Mobilizing the affected populace and organizing them for problem solving and decision-making.

CO’S INTERVENTIONS:

  • Process of citizen participation and involvement for people empowerment.

NOW WE DEFINE..

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IS..

ARTHUR DUNHUM DEFINES COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AS:

  • A conscious process of social interaction and a method of social work concerned with any of all the following objectives:

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  • The meeting of broad needs and bringing about and maintaining adjustment between needs and resources in a community or other area (TASK);

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  • Helping people to deal more effectively with their problems and objectives, by helping them develop, strengthen and maintain qualities of participation, self direction and cooperation. (PROCESS);

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  • Bringing about changes in community and group relationship and in the distribution of decision-making patterns in the community (RELATIONSHIP).

IMPORTANT POINTS OF VIEW OF CO:

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Integrative - organizing all the sector to cooperate(Ross)

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Enhancing coping capacities (Lippitt)

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Improving social services and social condition ​(Morris and Bristoc)

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Advocating interest of disadvantaged groups ​(Alinsky and Crosser)

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WHAT IS YOUR ROLE?

  • Enabling the community to engage in establishing goals and setting priorities

WHAT IS YOUR ROLE?

  • Helping community groups take effective action;
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WHAT IS YOUR ROLE?

  • Guiding the participants in the process through difficulties;
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WHAT IS YOUR ROLE?

  • Initiating action through education, demonstration, or other similar techniques.
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MULTIPLE ROLES OF CO:

  • Enabler
  • Helper
  • Guide
  • Initiator
  • Broker
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  • Advocate
  • Consultant
  • Intervenor
  • Planner
  • Researcher
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INSPIRATIONS...

  • Tom Wujec
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