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Social Work Practice in Community Organization, Management and Policy/Evaluation
Course
en
English
64 h
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- 8 Sequences
- Advanced Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction: The History and Components of Macro Practice
- The values, history and components of macro practice
- The challenges of macro practice in a multicultural society
Week 2: Advocacy as a Form of Social Action
- Models of advocacy
- Policy advocacy
Week 3: Models of Community Organization Practice and Their Implications
Understanding Communities: Their Problems & Their Populations
- Defining the community
- Different conceptualizations of community and their implications
- Typologies of community organization
- Empowerment theory and community organization practice
Week 4: Organizing and Mobilizing Communities
- Roles of the organizer
- Group skills in community work
- Selecting appropriate strategies and tactics
- Social capital and community mobilization
Week 5: Assessing Community Needs and Strengths
- Constructing a community profile: Frameworks for community analysis
- Conducting a community needs assessment
- Asset mapping: Identifying community strengths
Week 6: Understanding Community-Based Organizations
- The structure, mission & goals of nonprofit community-based organizations
- Management theories
- Decision-making, power, authority, and politics of nonprofit organizations
Week 7: Human Resources Management: Managing Staff in Organizations
- Inter-Organizational Practice Visioning and Strategic Planning in Community-Based Organizations
- Personnel Policies/Supervisory Roles and Functions
- Staff Development
- Assessing Organizations
- Issues of power
- Inter-organizational practice in multicultural communities
Week 8: Ethical and Legal Issues in Macro Practice
- The meaning of ethics and ethical analysis in macro practice
- Ethical issues in macro practice
- Legal foundations of community-based nonprofit organizations
- Program Development, Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation Social Policy and Community Practice
- Policy development & implementation at the community level
- Analyzing the community impact of social policies
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Barbara Hiltz
Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
University of Michigan
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The University of Michigan is an American university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It also has two regional campuses in the same state, in Dearborn and Flint.
Founded in 1817, it was Michigan's first university, established even before the State of Michigan joined the Union. Also known as UMich or UM, it is renowned as one of the best public universities in the United States.
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