Social work practice with organisations and communities
Topic: Working with organisation and communities in social work.
References = APA, 7th Edition (VERY important).
Examine the case scenario and Theory of Change below and answer the following questions:
You are a social worker of a social work service agency serving the underprivileged elderly population in the community.
A recent needs assessment survey of elderlies living alone indicated a large number of them experienced hunger despite getting free meal deliveries as well as groceries from various social service organisations.
Their major complaints are that the meals are usually bland, cold and lacked variety.
Most times, they would resort to cooking instant noodles and leave the delivered food uneaten.
Rather than giving feedback or refusing the meals, the elderlies felt obliged to receive the food because they do not want to appear ungrateful for the help they received.
They are thankful to receive regular delivery of free groceries from the social service organisations and would willingly accept anything even though the canned food items might not be suitable for their health conditions.
The elderly agreed that eating instant noodles daily is not good for their health.
However, some shared that they lacked the skills to cook and had always relied on eating out during their younger days.
Others felt that living alone, it would be a chore to go to out to purchase ingredients like vegetables and fish just to cook for one person.
Some of the elderly respondents also mentioned health reasons that kept them home-bound and thus unable to do their own grocery shopping.
Based on the results of the needs assessment survey, you and your team developed the following Theory of Change to guide your organisation in the macro intervention plans:
SEE PICTURE ATTACHED FOR THEORY OF CHANGE.
Questions (100 marks):
1) Demonstrate your ability to propose a suitable programme to achieve any of the outcomes which are identified in the Theory of Change.
Your proposal should include the following:
i) a TABULATED and DETAILED discussion of the Logic Model for the proposed community programme.
(30 marks).
SEE THE PICTURE ATTACHED FOR LOGIC MODEL TO HELP YOU WITH THE ASSIGNMENT.
ii) an itemised budget for this programme, with the appropriate justifications.
Include possible SOURCES of revenue in your budget.
(20 marks).
2) Examine how your proposed programme adheres to community work principles of human rights and social justice.
(10 marks).
3) Discuss, with examples, how you would apply teamwork skills to overcome challenges during the implementation of the programme.
(10 marks).
4) Discuss how you would plan the programme evaluation to ensure the programme’s fidelity and measure its effectiveness.
(20 marks).
Marks are given for good grammar, structure, CORRECT in-text citations and CORRECT references.
(10 marks).
The textbook for the subject is:
Generalist Practice with Organizations and Communities.
Full Text:
https://sg1lib.org/book/5005562/4b3325
It is written that the textbook should be used as one of the references. Thank you
NOTE: Updated information from the teacher.
For the theory of change picture, the top box, “increased food security” … is the social impact statement.
The various boxes below are the outcomes and you can label them outcome 1, 2, 3 etc. in the assignment.
In the assignment, we will need to put a circle around the flow of outcomes which we have chosen.
“i) a TABULATED and DETAILED discussion of the Logic Model” refers to a table of 5 columns (using Figure 1: Parts of a logic model). First column = Input. xxx. Last column = Goal. Discussion refers to the description of the items in the table, for example, activity.
“ii) an itemised budget for this programme, with the appropriate justifications.” Over here, we need to prepare a list of items and explain WHY.
For example, 10x staff. What is the cost? Why 10x staff?
For example, Drinks. $1000. How much per participant? How many participants in total? How many times do they meet up?
For this, we can use an budget Excel table, for one column, we can put list of items; for another column, we can put cost; for another column, we can put WHY? Then, we can insert into the Word Doc.
“Include possible SOURCES of revenue in your budget.” This refers to the fundings we can find.
“2) Examine how your proposed programme adheres to community work principles of human rights and social justice.” = Refers to WHY is your program adhering to human rights and social justice.
“3) Discuss, with examples, how you would apply teamwork skills to overcome challenges during the implementation of the programme.” For this part, we can write about the challenges we might face and what are the teamwork skills we can apply. We can also include micro-skills which are useful in teamwork.
“4) Discuss how you would plan the programme evaluation to ensure the programme’s fidelity and measure its effectiveness.” FIDELITY of program is mostly related to consistency. Sometimes, we make changes to improve a program and there is no definite right or wrong? The reason WHY we make changes to a program is important. Will the changes improve the effectiveness of the program?
For example, a program for single mothers; however due to lack of participants, we will include female singles who are not mothers, and that changes the fidelity of the program, so the program is considered UNsuccessful. One way to improve is to measure the the single mothers ONLY, but again the female singles who are not mothers will influence the results and fidelity is affected.
THE END.
