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The document discusses SWOT analysis, community needs assessment, community profiles, and community case studies as tools for community organizing. It also outlines the roles, functions, required knowledge, and skills of a community organizing worker.

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FINS 422 Midterm Module

The document discusses SWOT analysis, community needs assessment, community profiles, and community case studies as tools for community organizing. It also outlines the roles, functions, required knowledge, and skills of a community organizing worker.

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Liane D.

Garcia, RSW, MSSW

A. SWOT Analysis

 Guides you to identify your organization’s strength and weaknesses as well as a broader
opportunities and threat developing a fuller awareness of the situation helps with both
strategic planning and decision making.
1. Strength
What do you do better than others.
What unique capabilities and resource do you posses.
What do others perceive as your strength
2. Weaknesses
What do your competitors do better than you
What can you improve given the current situation
What do others perceive as your weaknesses
3. Opportunities
What tends or condition may positively impact you
What opportunities are available to you
4. Threat
What trends or condition may negatively impact you
What are your competitors doing that may impact you
Do you have solid financial support
What impact do your weaknesses have on the threats to you

B. Community Needs Assessment

 Identifies the strength and resources available in the community to meet the mode of
children, youth and families. The assessment focus on the capabilities of the community
including its citizen, agencies and organization.
 Promotes community leaders snapshot of local policy, systems and environment change
strategies community in place and helps to identify areas for improvement

C. Community Profile

 Is a detailed report about your community


 Is a data sheet that records information on a broad range of factors such as
environmental/ natural features and management

D. Community Case Study

 Document of a local experience about delivery of services to meet and identify need.
General Attributes of Community Organizing
Liane D. Garcia, RSW, MSSW

A. Process – oriented
 We learn from people, they also learn from us.
 CO process is visual as part of the education of people to better understand their
situation
 People involvement in the entire development process
B. People Centered oriented
 People are subject and object of development
 They have the capacities to change and can be changed therefore; potentials must
be fully maximize
C. Action oriented
 Once the people are aware it has to be translated to concrete action in order to
resolved the problem
D. Community Model
 It must be ensured that the people themselves manage the projects because in the
long run these projects will belong to them
 They are considered as partners rather than mere recipients of program and
services

Community Organizing Basic Assumption of Rothman’s Model

Practice Model Change Goal Staff role Constituents Target of Change


Change Strategy
1. Community/ Increase community Coordinator Citizen Programs or Develop a
Locality capacity and Enabler Pax services consensus
Development integration Catalyst among
groups
2. Social Action Change resources and Advocate Victim of Reform Mobilize
power dynamics Negotiator oppression Structure people to
Activist Constituents take action
Employee against
powerful
3. Social Planning Problem Solving Expert Data Consumers Community Collect data
Analyst of Service Systems choose the
Problem best plan.
Solver

What are the roles of a CO Workers?


Liane D. Garcia, RSW, MSSW

1. Enabler – enabling the community to engage in establishing goals, objectives and setting
priorities

2. Helper – helping community groups identify their problems/ needs and take effective action
on their planned goals and objectives to solve their problems and meet their needs and
aspirations.

3. Guide – guiding the community groups in the process through difficulties encountered.

4. Initiator – initiating action through education, demonstration and other techniques and
strategies

5. Broker – acting as a broker between groups, the client community and outside resources.

6. Advocate – advocating the just cause of any disadvantaged groups, sector or community as a
whole

7. Consultant – providing expert knowledge and information to achieved planned goals and
objectives

8. Intervener – intervening for and on behalf of the people for their participation and involvement
in the formulation of social welfare programs, and services and projects intended to benefit or
affect them or when their interest and welfare are in jeopardy

9. Planner – sits as planner for the social welfare/ social services sector in planning bodies as the
barangay, municipal, provincial, regional and national development councils.

10. Researcher – makes research on current problems, needs and issues as basis for action
planning

What are the Functions of CO Workers?

1. Fact finding – to secure and maintain an adequate factual basis for sound planning

2. Program development – to initiate, develop new programs and services and modify or
terminate social welfare programs and services that had become irrelevant.

3. Establishment of standards – to establish, maintain and improve social welfare standards, and
to increase the effectiveness, efficiency and economy of operation of social welfare agencies

4. Coordination – to improve and facilitate inter-relationships and to promote coordination


between organizations, groups and individuals concerned with social welfare programs services
Liane D. Garcia, RSW, MSSW

5. Education – to develop better public understanding of social welfare needs, problems,


resources, objectives, services, methods and standards.

6. Support and participation – to develop adequate public support f and public participation in
social welfare activities.

What are the required knowledge a CO worker should possess?

Based on the CO worker’s roles and functions, she should possess the following knowledge;

1. the goals and objectives


2. social legislations
3. research
4. group processes/ human and group behavior
5. power structure in a community
6. management of power
7. use of inter-group relationship
8. problem-solving and decision making
9. situation analysis
10. planning processes
11. policy formulation
12. existing resources (internal and external)
13. Programs development

What are the skills required of a CO worker?

The CO worker should possess the following skills;

1. Working with people/ one on one and small groups


2. Organizing
3. Verbal and written communication
4. Committee work
5. Leadership
6. Administration
7. Interviewing
8. Research
9. Planning and policy formulation

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