Reviewer in Policies, Programs and Services

• Social work


  A practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people
• Principles of social work


  • Social justice
  • Human rights
  • Collective responsibility
  • Respect for diversities
• Core mandates of social work


  • Promoting social change
  • Social development
  • Social cohesion
  • Empowerment and liberation of people

  
• Social change mandate


  Social work intervention takes place when the current situation is deemed to be in need of change and development, driven by the need to challenge and change structural conditions that contribute to marginalization, social exclusion and oppression
• Social development


  Strategies for intervention, desired end states and a policy framework, based on holistic biopsychosocial, spiritual assessments and interventions that transcend the micro-macro divide, incorporating multiple system levels and inter-sectoral and inter-professional collaboration, aimed at sustainable development

  
• Overarching principles of social work


  • Respect for the inherent worth and dignity of human beings
  • Doing no harm
  • Respect for diversity
  • Upholding human rights and social justice
• Social work recognizes that human rights need to coexist alongside responsibility collective
• Generations of human rights embraced by social work


  • First generation (civil and political rights)
  • Second generation (socio-economic and cultural rights)
  • Third generation (rights to natural world and inter-generational equity)
• Social work is both interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary, and draws on a wide array of scientific theories and research
• Social work practice


  Intervention at the points where people interact with their environment, utilizing a range of skills, techniques, strategies, principles and activities at various system levels, directed at system maintenance and/or system change efforts
• Social work practice spans a range of activities including various forms of therapy and counseling, group work, and community work; policy formulation and analysis; and advocacy and political interventions
• Social worker


  A practitioner who by accepted academic training and social work professional experience possesses the skill to achieve the objectives as defined and set by the social work profession, through the use of the basic methods and techniques of social work (casework, group work, and community organization)
• Social work agency


  A person, corporation or organization, private or governmental, that engages mainly and generally, or represents itself to engage in social welfare work, and obtains its finances, either totally or in part, from any agency or instrumentality of the government and/or from the community by direct or indirect solicitations and/or fund drives, and/or private endowment

  
• In the Philippines, no person shall practice or offer to practice social work without holding a valid certificate of registration as a social worker issued by the Board of Examiners for Social Workers
• Non-Maleficent


  Doing no harm
• Mental first aid, psychosocial support


  Activities done by social workers, not counseling
• SWPPS (Social Welfare Policies, Programs and Services) is an indirect practice of social work

  
• Social welfare


  The primary field of social work practice, an organized concern of all people for all people, an organized system of social services and institutions designed to aid individuals and groups to attain satisfying standards of life and health

  
• Stakeholders/Sectors involved in social welfare


  • DSWD
  • M/CSWD
  • Private Sectors
  • International non-governmental organizations
  • Local non-government organizations
  • Peoples' organization
• Equity


  The quality of being fair or impartial, where everyone receives the same level of what they need
• Equality


  The state where a man sees himself to be truly equal to every man in inherent worth and dignity although their socio-economic conditions may differ, the enjoyment of equal rights, whether political, economic or social
• Needs-based approach


  Social welfare is a response to a social need or problem provided through different societal institutions

  
• Needs-based approach


  1. Need

  2. Problem

  3. Social welfare response

  4. Social welfare policy

  5. Programs/services

  
• Rights-based approach


  Every Filipino is endowed with rights guaranteed by the Constitution, social welfare response is based on promoting and protecting these rights
• Rights-based approach


  1. Human rights

  2. Social welfare response

  3. Social welfare policy

  4. Programs/services

  
• Principles of social justice


  • Access
  • Equity
  • Participation
  • Human rights
• Welfare


  Status where the needs and wants are satisfied, as manifested by good health, happiness and prosperity and well-being
• Social


  System or structure of community life where its members form a continuous and regular association for the benefit and protection
• Social welfare


  The organized system of social services and institutions, designed to aid individuals and groups to attain satisfying standards of life and health and personal and social relationships that permit them to develop their full capacities and promote their well being in harmony with the needs of their families and community

  
• Social services


  Programs, services and other activities provided under various auspices, to concretely answer the needs and problems of the members
• Civil, political, economic, cultural, and social rights

  Rights that must be protected for a society to be just
• Welfare


  Status where the needs and wants are satisfied, as manifested by good health, happiness, prosperity, and well-being
• Social Welfare


  Organized system of social services and institutions, designed to aid individuals and groups to attain satisfying standards of life and health and personal and social relationships that permit them to develop their full capacities and promote their well-being in harmony with the needs of their families and community

  
• Social Services


  Programs, services and other activities provided under various auspices, to concretely answer the needs and problems of the members of the society
• Social Welfare Programs


  Plans of action of a certain service or activities

  
• Social Welfare Programs Categories

  • Social Security
  • Personal Social Services
  • Public Assistance

  
• Social Security


  Whole set of compulsory measures instituted to protect the individual and his family against the consequences of unavoidable interruption or serious diminution of the earned income disposable for the maintenance of a reasonable standard of living
• Personal Social Services


  Service functions which have major bearing upon personal problems, individual situation stress, interpersonal helping or helping people in need, and the provision of direct services on collaboration with workers from government and voluntary agencies

  
• Public Assistance


  Material/concrete aids/supports provided, usually by government agencies to people who have no income or means of support for themselves and their families for reasons such as loss of employment, natural disasters, etc. In foreign countries, public assistance is simply called "welfare"
• Social Services (Richard M. Titmus)


  Partial compensation for the "socially generated disservices" and "socially-caused diswelfare"