Social Work

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Types of Aid

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-informal-churches helping people
-mutual-people helping each other (most common)
-formal-gov't helping people

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The Middle Ages

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-The serfs were traditionally caved for an estates of their lords
-As people moved to the cities, the churches were a primary source of aid to those in need
-The Acts of Enclosure ing Britain helped increase the poverty and the level of need overwhelmed the churches
(let owner of land enclose thier land from others)

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Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601

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-administration of poor relief at the local level
-relative responsibility (parents care for their children and grown children care for their elderly parents/grandparents)
-taxing of people in each parish to pay for their own poor
-developed categories of "sturdy beggars", dependent children and "imponent Poor"
-This law set up the concepts of "worthy" and "unworthy" poor
-conditions at the workhouse were designed so that no one with any other alternative would choose it
-developed "indoor relief" (poorhouse, unworthy) and "outdoor relief" (aid in your home, such as food or fuel)

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sturdy beggars

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physically healthy, can get job

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dependent children

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infants

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impotent poor

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without power, elderly, physical/mental handicap

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New Poor Law of 1834 (Britain)

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-Emphasis was self-reliance
-less eligibility-the aid that people received was always less than the lowest paid worker

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Colonial America *

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-ideas from Elizabethan Poor Law

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Philosophy of US las till 1935 *

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-clear gov't responsibility

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Europe *

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1880's
-Bismark's sickness insurance laws
-Accident insurance
-workers pensions
-Austria, Sweeden and Netherlands

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America in the 1800's

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-Dorothea Dix-help people with mental illnesses
-Freedman's Bureau-help freed slaves
-1851-start YMCA, YWCA, Boy Club, Jewish Centers
-1865-Salvation Army, Boy Scouts, Red Cross

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CHarity orgainization Societies

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-focused on individuals in poverty
-use of "friendly visitors"-high class goes to help poor
-role of social casework
-Mary Richmond-Social Diagnosis (book)
-Development of "scientific charity"-emphasism objective and factual

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Settlement Houses *

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-1st was Toynbee Hall in London
-most famous is Hull House in Chicago
-founded by Jane Addams ("mother of Social Work") and Ellen Gates
-set up in "slum" areas, the workers lived there among

-focused on prevention over treatment
-provided services such as English classes, health clinics, child care, sewing
-Child labor laws and institutional care of people with disabilities

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Great Society/War on Poverty

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-VISTA-domestic peace corps
-Upward Bound
-Head Start-help 3-6 year olds get ready for school
-Legal Services
-Job Corps-Carrer track opposed to college

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America in the 1970's

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-1972-SSI-availible to impoverished elderly and people with disabilities
-1975-Education for all Handicapped Children Act (now IDEA)
-1978-Indian Child Welfare Act

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America in the 1990's

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-1990-Americans with Disabilities Act
-1996-"Welfare reform"-AFDC was changed to TAWF as a part of PRWORA

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Why do people become social workers? *

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-service to others
-idealism
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Unfaithful Angels? book

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has social work drifted from its traditional service to the most vulnerable in society?

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Multicultural view

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-info about different cultures is taught in the social work curriculum
-this helps social workers become aware of:
-problems faced by oppressed groups
-traditional cultural strengths
-Become aware of our own internalized discriminatory attitudes