Social Work 342

Front 1

What is the result when community members recognize their assets and discover how to use them in more productive ways?

Back 1

Community Development

Front 2

How does systems theory help to further understanding the function and dynamic role of community as a conceptualizing framework?

Back 2

Communities are systems that require ongoing input, must maintain equilibrium, must meet needs for survival

Front 3

what is the systematic subjugation of people, their rights, opportunities, hopes, and beliefs to benefit the interests of others who have the power to maintain the current state of affairs?

Back 3

Oppression

Front 4

What are organizations developed by community members who themselves define which problems to work on. these organizations often rely on outside financial assistance?

Back 4

self help organizations

Front 5

What are 3 elements of community development?

Back 5

Increase skills of individuals, connect existing resources, create or increase community resources

Front 6

What questions might a social worker ask that is seeking to discover community resources?

Back 6

What natural resources exist? What information and knowledge is available in your community?
What cultural traditions enliven the community?

Front 7

What are some common bases of power that are common to most communities?

Back 7

Illegal Actions, constituencies, and goods and services

Front 8

what in the context of power refers to special favors and inside information that are offered to family members and the community may defer to members of well-known families?

Back 8

Family

Front 9

What are 3 different opportunities for participation available to those interested?

Back 9

Advisors, inactive (general supporters), workers (Ongoing active participants)

Front 10

T/F. Once people within a community have expressed an interest and they are ready to go, you want to keep them going?

Back 10

True

Front 11

T/F. It is often not a limiting phenomenon when you encounter crossing cultural lines to develop perspective and assistance, when working with community?

Back 11

true

Front 12

What are 3 of the 4 steps to increase likelihood that your approach will yield helpful, reliable members?

Back 12

Maintain their involvement, ask them to join, contact people

Front 13

what is the full range of organizations activities of voluntary and governmental agencies that seek to prevent, alleviate, or contribute to the solution to recognized problems?

Back 13

Social Welfare

Front 14

T/F. Protest organizations usually want to bring about change in the economic or political system and often work within conventional rules.

Back 14

False

Front 15

What is the system of community norms and interrelationships that produce trust, collaborative action and community consciousness?

Back 15

Community organization

Front 16

T/F. According to Homan, you will find strength and energy when you convert the power of caring and common decency into an active force to counter those influences that flaw the system in which you work as a volunteer and professional.

Back 16

True

Front 17

What sees social community well-being efforts as responses to shared social conditions?

Back 17

developmental approach

Front 18

When communities provide resources simply to expand human potential or add to the quality of life, rather than to correct a problem or overcome a deficiency, they are following what approach?

Back 18

Developmental

Front 19

Sustaing and taking action are often challenging. In order to take and sustain action, what is important?

Back 19

Receiving sufficient encouragement, Feel safe to do so, feel competent

Front 20

No matter how you arrive at a community or organizational issue, it is important that any plan includes what?

Back 20

Specific steps to get you going, major activities you need to accomplish, and a sense of the ultimate desired condition

Front 21

what is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enable that system, agency, or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations?

Back 21

Cultural Competence

Front 22

Empowerment of those participating in a change effort depends on five factors, what are four of those five factors?

Back 22

Personal interest or investment in the project-feeling of being an important part of something, belief in the possibility of a successful outcome, recognition of common interests and common risk taking

Front 23

What consists of a number of people with something in common that connects them in some way and that distinguishes them from others?

Back 23

Community

Front 24

T/F. Healthy communities focus on decreasing the health of communities, helping them function better to meet the needs and promote the development of their individual members

Back 24

False

Front 25

What is found in members' belief in something larger than themselves and their subsequent search for meaning and commitment to a life that calls forth their best?

Back 25

Spiritual capital

Front 26

what are 6 elements of community development?

Back 26

Building on community assets and connect existing resources, Increase skills of individuals and connect people with one another, create beneficial external relationships and enhance quality of life

Front 27

what are two views of social welfare?

Back 27

Residual and developmental

Front 28

what are critical professional values that should direct professional practice?

Back 28

Values as preferred conceptions of people, preferred outcomes for people, and preferred instruments for dealing with people

Front 29

what are three ways to avoid traps and benefiting from the experience of working to promote community change?

Back 29

Take what you do seriously, remind yourself of that is important in your life, develop the ability to be in more than one place at a time.

Front 30

What are two condition to taking action?

Back 30

Know there is a problem, and know that you are competent

Front 31

What are 5 forms of capital?

Back 31

Political, environmental, economy, cultural, spiritual

Front 32

What are 3 common bases of power?

Back 32

Informational, referent, output

Front 33

What are the four P's of marketing

Back 33

Product, price, place, and promotion

Front 34

What are the 3 M's?

Back 34

Market, Medium, Message

Front 35

What are 5 types of medium choices

Back 35

Word of mouth, memo, letter, posters, and blogs

Front 36

What are 4 major action strategies

Back 36

Confrontation, negotiation, collaboration, and co-optation

Front 37

What are 4 considerations for your selection of tactics?

Back 37

Issues, target, your members and other resources

Front 38

What are 2 models that describe the natural processes of neighborhood change?

Back 38

Invasion-succession model, and life-cycle model