WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES PART 1 Flashcards
Leonora De Guzman
BAEX - HE
Bureau of Agricultural Extension - Home Economics
BCC - CO – Barangay Coordinating Council - Community Organizing
BLISS – Bagong Lipunan Improvement of Sites and Services
CARE – Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere
CWAFPI – Children and Women Advocacy Foundation of the Philippines, Inc.
DECS – Department of Education, Culture and Sports (now DepEd)
DILG – Department of the Interior and Local Government
DOH – Department of Health
DSSD – Department of Social Services and Development (now DSWD)
DSWD – Department of Social Welfare and Development
ESCAP – Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN agency)
ISWCD – Institute of Social Work and Community Development (commonly associated with UP Diliman)
MSSD – Ministry of Social Services and Development (Bangsamoro Autonomous Region)
NASW – National Association of Social Workers
NCSDFP – National Council for the Social Development Foundation of the Philippines
NHA – National Housing Authority
NMYC – National Manpower and Youth Council (now part of TESDA)
NRDP – National Rural Development Program
ORP – Outreach Program (general term; could refer to specific community outreach programs)
PACD – Presidential Assistant on Community Development (historical government body)
PACSA – Presidential Arm on Community Social Action (precursor to DSWD functions)
PBSP – Philippine Business for Social Progress
PECCO – Philippine Educational Cooperative Credit Organization
POPCOM – Commission on Population and Development
PTA – Parent-Teacher Association
PYWCC – Philippine Youth and Women’s Coordinating Council
SSWAP – Social Services and Welfare Assistance Program (may vary by local LGU usage)
USAID – United States Agency for International Development
ZOTO – Zone One Tondo Organization (a well-known urban poor alliance)
This is a term most commonly used by workers and the humanitarian service agencies in the Philippines to refer to community development.
COMMUNITY WORK
This refers to various methods of intervention whereby a professional change ageng helps a comminity action system composed of individuals, groups or organizations, to engage in planned collective action in order to deal with social problems within a democratic system of values.
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Refer to a group of people gathered together in any geographic area, large or small, who have common interests, actual or potentially recognized, in the social welfare field.
COMMUNITY
These populations have a common interest in changing existing institutions to their advantage in order to achieve redistribution of opportunity, resources, and benefits.
RELEVANT COMMUNITIES
This meant a feeling of belongingness and responsible civic behavior.
SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND CITIZENSHIP
The consequences of the occasional failure of a social system from its normal operation.
RESIDUAL
The consequence of particular social arrangements operating the way they are expected and desired, but not the result of human failing.
INTITUTIONAL
Are concerned with concrete tasks, undertaken in order to meet specific needs or to solve particular problems.
TASK GOALS
Are concerned with the process of helping people in a community or neighborhood or a particular constituency group to strengthen their qualities of participation, self-direction, and cooperation.
PROCESS GOALS
Focus on changing certain types of social relationships, especially decision-making patterns in a community.
RELATIONSHIP GOALS
The intellectual work involved in problem solving such as making choices as to what to do, when and how.
ANALYTICAL TASKS
This connote the action undertaken by the practitioner in relationship with other people.
INTERACTIONAL TASKS
This refers to the traditional “council” model, criticized in the literature on the ground that “participation of all” leads primarily to trade offs and the protection of the status quo.
CONSENSUS
Associated with the type of structure in which representatives of a minority view or interest are included within the organizational framework dominated by others but render legitimacy to the latter’s purpose.