Community Practice: Opportunities for Community Building |
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Green, S.
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12/1/98
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Maatskaplike-Werk / Social-Work
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1998, 34, 4, Dec, 362-369
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Community Development
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Argues that social work must focus on community practices rather than individual-based therapy to address structural problems associated with low-income families, using semistructured interview data from 94 adult members of a feeding project in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Demographic data & information on literacy, employment, usage of the project s resources, perceived social problems in the community, & external support networks (ie, household family members, informal resources outside the family, & professional community resources) were gathered. Results confirm the need to increase the community s capacity to provide a basic safety net for families & children; implications for social work practitioners are addressed, & possible programs to empower & build communities are illustrated with examples. 19 References. S. Paul
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