The learning model used a social work education approach that included fieldwork combined with social work community organization practices and distributed education. The model is described as key to an enduring local legacy of sustainable community development curated by humanitarian values, practices, ...
lagging industrial development, limited industrialization, insufficient capital and technology, and a shortage of skilled workers, to promote their own economic and social development.
Social workers' participation in neighborhood development projects and Cuba's post‐Revolutionary communal ethos also shaped a community‐oriented social work approach in Cuba. This approach contrasts with an individually oriented model in the US and in Britain. Social workers in Cuba and in these ...
Social and Community Development Practice makes a persuasive case for employing a social development approach to community development practice at local and village levels. Towards this end, the book offers a conceptual clarity of social and community development (SCD) by adding new dimensions. It als...
2. Title:Using theory-based evaluation to understand what works in asset-based community development Author:Sarah Ward Abstract:Asset-based community development (ABCD) has become a popular approach to community work, with the claim tha...
The program engages social work students working alongside engineering students in a team approach to developing and implementing international community development projects. The author chronicles the prevalence and types of interdisciplinary, academic social work collaborations over the past 2 decades and ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven approach to climate action and sustainable development This study demonstrates how Artificial Intelligence can be used to unravel the linkages between Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement 3 and the agenda for 2030 Sustainable Development. ...
The recovery programmes began with the aim of using a community development approach to develop a sustainable response. The concept of community development was not defined at the commencement of the project so that there was flexibility in the way it was operationalized. The approach changed over ...
Mental health problems are prevalent in disadvantaged communities. We encountered these issues first-hand as community development workers in a community of high unemployment and social welfare support located in the south west region of Sydney, Australia. In our community centre, we saw the spectrum...
Although the idea that approaches from Third World countries can be adapted to enhance educational programs in the United States is a novel one, the African approach to community development has much to offer American schools of social work that are seeking to prepare students to work with poor ...