Many influences have helped shaped the profession of social work from as early as 1349, when the first recorded act of labor law were enacted to the present day form of social welfare in the United States. Social work is rooted on the mission to enhance human well-being and to meet the basic life needs of people through empowerment, especially to those who feel vulnerable, oppressed or in poverty (2012). Social workers aim to promote social justice and social change while being sensitive to cultural and ethnic diversity in various communities. The core values associated with the foundation of the social work practice include: service, social justice, dignity and worth of a person, importance of human relationships, integrity and competence
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The Charity Organization or COS was the first relief organization to pay its people to investigate requests for assistance and to refer eligible applicants to one or more existing agencies for intensive aid and super vision (2012). One of the women that helped paved the way for social work through the settlement houses, Jane Addams, was known best for establishing settlement houses in Chicago for immigrants in the early 1900s. Addams was a dedicated community organizer and peace activist (Social Work History). Another way of providing community-based services and advocacy for the poor and disenfranchised was the settlement house movement. One of the most influential women in the social work profession was Mary Richmond, who basically formulated the concept of social casework-the method designed to develop personality through adjustments consciously effected between persons and their environment. By the late 1930s community organization was gaining prominence and by the 1955 several organizations united to form the National Association of Social Workers or the NASW …show more content…
The components that made its way into the United State way of handling policies toward the poor include: clear but limited government responsibility for those in need, government authority to force people to work, government enforcement of family responsibility, the principle of local responsibility and strict residence requirements (2012). One of the early tenets that served as a basis for social welfare policy was that the assistance provided should not put them in better standing than that of the lowest paid
The Charity Organization or COS was the first relief organization to pay its people to investigate requests for assistance and to refer eligible applicants to one or more existing agencies for intensive aid and super vision (2012). One of the women that helped paved the way for social work through the settlement houses, Jane Addams, was known best for establishing settlement houses in Chicago for immigrants in the early 1900s. Addams was a dedicated community organizer and peace activist (Social Work History). Another way of providing community-based services and advocacy for the poor and disenfranchised was the settlement house movement. One of the most influential women in the social work profession was Mary Richmond, who basically formulated the concept of social casework-the method designed to develop personality through adjustments consciously effected between persons and their environment. By the late 1930s community organization was gaining prominence and by the 1955 several organizations united to form the National Association of Social Workers or the NASW …show more content…
The components that made its way into the United State way of handling policies toward the poor include: clear but limited government responsibility for those in need, government authority to force people to work, government enforcement of family responsibility, the principle of local responsibility and strict residence requirements (2012). One of the early tenets that served as a basis for social welfare policy was that the assistance provided should not put them in better standing than that of the lowest paid