Community Macro Social Work Theory Practice Session One

Community/ Macro Social Work Theory & Practice Session One Kathy Reed, MSW, LCSW Winter 2016

What Are Community Values? https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=e. Kz 2 R 61 YUV 0

Pair Share Find a partner – preferably someone you don’t know well Class Discussion Talk about your response to the question Come up with 2 -3 expectations for our class community Write up your pair’s thoughts on the Whiteboard…

Session Agenda Introductions Video, our learning community What is Macro Practice? The promise of the class (syllabus review) Kivel & Block discussion

After watching the “What is Macro Practice? ” Video… https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=-RCMP 7 Y 4 l. Bc How do you envision macro practice? How does it fit with your conceptualization of social work

Macro Practice Conceptual Framework: Understanding Problem, Population, and Arena What social problems did you study during your Integrated Practice Class? Identify the populations impacted by those problems? Netting, Kettner, Mc. Murty, & Thomas, 2011

The arenas we will explore this quarter… Organizations and Communities Organization… A collective of individuals gathered together to serve a particular purpose Community… • A geographic location, a place • A group with a common interest, purpose • A collective of personal relationships

The promise of the course…

Social Service OR Social Change (Kivel, 2000) Social workers in the buffer zone? • Take care of those at the bottom? • Keep hope alive? • Maintain social control? Who benefits from your work? How do you help people come together?

Learning collectives: Discuss Kivel in collective and then have a large group discussion Reactions to Kivel’s assertion that social work resides in the buffer zone? Do we fulfill the purposes of taking care of those at the bottom? Keeping hope alive? Maintaining social control? Who benefits from your work? Can you make change from inside the “system”? Knowing that social change happens when people get together -what is social work’s role in bringing people together? Critique the assertion that no one the US lives outside the pyramid. Who are you accountable to? Discuss your thoughts about the role of the nonprofit in stabilizing the buffer zone.

Wrap-up • Any questions? • Please turn in your Student Information Form • The online product for the week is due via email by Friday 1/15/14 at 11: 59 pm.