Role and duties of school social work

Definition of school social work;

      A school social worker is as an advocate  provides counselling services to the students to their potentials in the schools setting and who assists the students to remove obstacles to success in school.

Role and duties of school social work;

1-The school social work plays a vital role in a school  through communicating  with the parents, teachers, administrators, this process is essential to provide a full view of the issues facing an individual students.

2-School social work plays as a bridge t supportive role the gap between the home and school.

3-To maintain case files and reports to track student problems and progress.

4-To identify parent's behavior at home with school children and assist them accordingly.

5-Work for reduction in drop outs and increase graduation rates.

6-Increase parents involvements through interact with parents.

7-To arrange therapeutic counseling to students and their families.

8-To identify issues related to child development, stress reduction,discipline,and safety, through educational workshops.

9-Maintain case records of the students and submits appropriate documents for statistical reports with adherence to program stander in school social work.

10-Conduct home visits with the aim of establishing communication and positive connections between the parents and school setting around identified issues.

11-Mobilize the community resources to support the educational program.

12-As a part of coordinated system of student services,school social worker assist students in making better use of their school experience.

13-Help teachers to identify children whose needs suggest referral for school social work and or other services.

14-To maintain working relationship with other educators and between parents and teacher to share information and provide follow-up services.

15-Consultation with school administrators, teachers,supports staffs,and parents.

16 Individual counselling and support to students, family counselling support to parents.

17-Publishing materials for parents and professionals related to child schooling and physical and mental grooming.

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Role of Community Organizer in Social work prospective

1- The CO as a change agent, when CO goes to community on a mission by an outside agency than he has to work with community as a member of the community, interact with the people, and help identify priority problems.

2-The CO as a communicator transfers or transmits information through knowledge to members of the community. Sharing of information enables thecommunity to be better prepared and empowered with information.

3- The CO enables the community members for a change and he does not carry out any work by himself but he enables the community to do work.

4-In any process community organization the CO encourages provides direction and guide line to proceed in carrying out the different activities. As an antimatter he plays a vital role in eliciting the active participation of the of the people from planning till evaluation especially ensuring life in all the dealings of the issues and problems.

5-The community organizer understands the community and enables the community to understand itself. At the time of any difficulty he must given the required counseling to proceed in the correct direction.

6-In the process of community organization the community organizer joins hand with his colleagues and other like-minded people and organization. The CO goes towards their goals through the collaborations of net working of similar and like –minded organization.

7-The community organizer serves as a role model and source of inspiration. This type of role is be come an example while working with the people.

8- The CO stimulates and sustains active interest among the community members for finding out a solution to the needs and problems. The organizer encourages the community to take up minor task and complete it successfully which would enable the people to take up difficult task.

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Definition of community based organization (CBO)

Community based organization (CBO) is local non-profit organization and is  typically staffed by local members  that work at local level for the betterment of community in the field of health care, environment education, equality, saving, home industry, and meet other needs and problems of the community members.
  CBOSs are mostly run on voluntary a basis and on self funded. A CBO is consist of a group of people who com to gather  to accomplish  a common goal and who has common culture and faith.

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Community Organization

Community organization is a method of social work, through which welfare needs of community are met. It brings harmonious contribution between the needs and resources.

   It is as the process efforts made by community organizer who may be voluntary worker or a government functionary. Who towards bring about, tomobilize community resources for batter handling of community needs and problems. Community organization is the democratic method like other methods of social work, based on the believe in the worth and dignity of the individual and community to change for the betterment and with the aim to brings about coordination between various individuals, groups and organization associate with programs  for the upliftment of the community.

       There was much confusion in understanding the concept of community organization, other terms such as communitydevelopment, community work, and community planning is used in context of community organization, when NGOs started to work on different community development projects by using the knowledge of community organization then the concept of community organization became comprehensive. Misconceptions and conflicts among community members are considered as a big wall in the way of community organization that the knowledge of community organization uproots the wall and developing capacities in the community by make it more organized to handle its own needs or problems by this process people are brought to gather to agree and act in common self-interest.

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Principles of Community Organization;

   The main principles of community organization as a under;
1- Community Organizer should accept the community, and should accept himself accepted by the community,for gaining acceptance in the community,where he goes with the aim of working and he should contact with various socio-cultural groups and sub groups.

2- The felt needs,resources are kept in view during the process of ommunity organization.

3- The organizer should firm belief  on the capability of the community to deal with the problems with which it is faced.

4- Planing group should respect all people concern and the decision must include people with technical knowledge of health.

5- Community Organizer should interacted with the active person of the community to understanding felt needs, and resources of and try to organize through the help of active person.

6- Community organizer should provide full freedom to the community in respect of determination of needs and resources as also the plane and not to impose his own views on people in the community.

7- Formal and informal community members should involve in decision making.

8- The attitude and approach of community organizer towards work with the community should be non-judgmental.

9-Whether it is identification of needs problems,or it is creation of an organization, or it is formulation of community  plans and programs,people in the community, through their representatives.

10- Asking question to the community is very  important this greatest skill of asking guest ion to the community an organizer can have is ability to frame and ask.

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