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The document outlines the concept of Community Organization (CO) as defined by various authors, emphasizing its role in identifying community needs, mobilizing resources, and fostering collective action. It highlights the objectives of CO, which include raising awareness of community issues, harnessing resources for development, and promoting collaboration for social justice. Principles of CO stress trust in people's capacity for change and focus on the interests of marginalized groups.

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The document outlines the concept of Community Organization (CO) as defined by various authors, emphasizing its role in identifying community needs, mobilizing resources, and fostering collective action. It highlights the objectives of CO, which include raising awareness of community issues, harnessing resources for development, and promoting collaboration for social justice. Principles of CO stress trust in people's capacity for change and focus on the interests of marginalized groups.

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KORBEL FOUNDATION COLLEGE, INC

BS IN SOCIAL WORK
SWP7 SOCIAL WORK PRACTIVE WITH COMMUNITIES
2nd sem AY 2024-2025

SWP7 Social Work Practice with Communities (CO)

Session Guide 5 Part 1

Definition of CO by diferent Authors:

What is community Organization ?


(Murray G. Ross, 1955) Community Organization is a process by which a
community
1. identify its needs or objectives
2. Order or ranks these objectives
3. Develops the confidence and will to work at these objectives
4. Find the resources ( internal or external) to deal with these needs and
objectives
5. Take action with respect to them ,and in so doing
6. Extends and develops cooperative and collaborative attitudes and practice
in the community

(ISWCD) Community organization is a continuous and sustained process of:


1. Educating the people to understand and develop their critical
consciousness of their existing conditions;
2. Organizing the people to work collectively and efficiently on their
immediate and long term problems
3. Mobilizing the people to develop their capability and readiness to respond
and take action on their immdediate needs towards solving their long term
problems.

(Arthur Dunham) Community organizing refers to the conscious process of


social interaction and method of social work concerned with three
objectives:
1. TASK goals – which are concerned with concrete tasks, undertaken in
order to meet specific needs to solve particular problems.
2. PROCESS goals – which are concerned with the process of helping
people for participation and cooperation. Process goals are concerned with
the process of helping people grow in certain ways.
3. RELATIONSHIP goals – focus on changing certain types of social
relationship especially decision making patterns in the community.
(Ralph I Kramer and Harry Specht, 1969) Community Organization
refers to various methods of intervention whereby a professional agent helps
a community action system composed of individuals , groups and
organization to engage in planned collective action in order to deal with
social problems within a democratic system of values. It is concerned with
programs aimed at social change, with primary reference to environmental
condition and social institutions.

It involves two major interrelated concerns:


1. The process of working with an action system, which include planning and
organizing, identifying problem areas, diagnoses, causes and formulating
solution, and
2. Developing strategies and mobilizing the resources necessary to effect
any action.

The community as the Client or target of CO;


Meaning of CO –
1. Community refers to a body of people or the aggregation of families and
individuals settled in a fairly compact and contiguous area with significant
elements of common life, as shown by their manners, customs, traditions
and mode or speech.
2. Community refers to group of people gathered in a geographical area,
large or small, who have common interests, actual or potentially recognized
in the social welfare field. ( Arlien Johnson)

What are the objectives of Community Organization?


1. To help the people understand their own situation ( resources, history,
problems, etc) and develop awareness of their potentials;
2. To help the people harness their human and material resources to pursue
programs and projects, or to combat and solve any issues and problems to
establish or which will enhance community development, and
3. To help people work collectively or collaboratively on their needs and
problems to establish a just society for brighter future

What are the principles of Community Organization?


1. Trust in people – people want change and they have the capability to bring
out changes.
2. Community organizing should be based on the interest of the exploited
and the oppressed sectors and classes of the society;
3. Community organizing should lead to a just, independent and democratic
society.

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