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• Society responds to unmeet needs or problems through the following ways:

  1. Individual and Group Efforts
  2. Major societal institutions which have their designated roles and responsibilities for meeting human needs
  3. Social Agency
• Individual and Group Efforts


  A systematic and voluntary efforts undertaken by individuals or groups in response to the unmeet needs of people in a community.
• Major societal institutions which have their designated roles and

  responsibilities for meeting human needs

  The family, the church, the government, cooperatives and labor union are major institutions. Social forces bring about changes which can affect the effectiveness of these institution in performing their social welfare functions.
• Social Agency


  Whether under public or private auspices, a social agency is a major

  provision for helping people with their problems.
• Issues

  • A vital or unsettled matter.

  • A matter that is in dispute between two or more parties.

  • The point at which an unsettled matter is ready for a decision.
• Provision


  • The act or process of supplying or providing something.
• Programs

  • “Everything that happens in the life of the group” or as “activities which require a certain amount of definite planning on the part of the group, or the worker, or both.”
• Social Services

  
  

  Refers to the programs services and other activities provided under various auspices to concretely answer the needs and problems of the members of society.
• Social welfare and therefore social services has been accepted as a legitimate function of modern industrial society in helping people fulfill themselves.
• Social Responsibility

  (n) Everyone should not be limited only on his/ her concern but should also have concern for others and move jointly to achieve common goals
• Human rights


  Anchored on the belief in everyone’s worth and dignity. It includes the right to life and survival, to self-determination and to development as persons and a people.
• Clients


  Refers to any person or body that is the recipient of or has contracted to received, social work or social service work services;
• Micro – individuals or family which is seeking or being provided social

  services.
• Mezzo- group, organization or community that is seeking or being provided social services.
• Macro- society, social policy, social change, or research as the entity being served or targeted.
• Social workers advocate on behalf of others, particularly those who are unable to speak up for themselves.
• Social workers advocate on behalf of others, particularly those who are unable to speak up for themselves.
• As an organized concern of all people for all people.

  Gertrude Wilson
• The organized system of social services and institution, designed to aid individuals and groups to attain satisfying standards of life and health.

  Walter Friedlander
• Social welfare includes those laws, programs, benefits and services which assure or strengthen provisions for meeting social needs recognized as basic well-being of the population and the better functioning of the social order.

  Elizabeth Wickenden
• Whether under public or private auspices, a social agency is a major provision for helping people with their problems.