Work in Communities

Major: Social Welfare
Code of subject: 6.232.01.E.086
Credits: 4.00
Department: Sociology and Social Work
Lecturer: Mariana Shkoliar, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Semester: 8 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: 1.2. Develop measures to improve the social protection system; 1.3. Identify the main areas of cooperation between government agencies and NGOs; 1.6. Apply their knowledge and understanding to carry out professional activities in the field of social welfare, aimed at socio - economic change; 1.8. Provide objective professional information to central and local authorities, local governments, public organizations on social development, formation and evaluation of social welfare services, social policy; 1.9. Provide informational and normative-legal assistance to public organizations on the formation of social projects financed from regional and local budgets
Required prior and related subjects: prerequisites: • Social interaction and information impact technologies co-requisite: • Social welfare marketing
Summary of the subject: Types of social communities. Community as a specific social community. Community: features, types and characteristics. Community structure and its social capital. State and civil society. Individual and social helplessness: analysis of the phenomenon. The concept of "capacity" as a personal and group power. History of community social work. Work in the community: principles, methods, approaches. Approaches to community development. Participatory development. Resistance to community change and ways to overcome it. Methods and tools for community participation. Models of community social work. A person in the community through the prism of motivation to act. Community development planning: theoretical and practical aspects.
Assessment methods and criteria: • oral interviews, participation in discussions and interactive exercises, presentation of the study project (40%) • final control (verification event, exam), written form (60%)
Recommended books: 1. Bezpalko O.V., Aveltseva T.P. Matsevka N.I. Tekhnolohiyi aktyvizatsiyi hromady. Metod.posib./ Za red. O.V. Bezpalko. K.: Nauk.svit, 2006. 95s. (in Ukrainian) 2. Karyy O.I., Panas YA.V. Mistsevi initsiatyvy ta zaluchennya hromadskosti do zdiysnennya mistsevoho samovryaduvannya / Asotsiatsiya mist Ukrayiny – K., TOV «Pidpryyemstvo «VI EN EY», 2015. 176 s. (in Ukrainian) 3. Olchak M., Rostek K. Vdoskonalennya sotsialnykh posluh v obyednanykh terytorialnykh hromadakh: posibnyk. Kyyiv, 2019. 57s. (in Ukrainian) 4. Posibnyk iz vyznachennya potreb naselennya obyednanoyi terytorialnoyi hromady u sotsial?nykh posluhakh. Praktychni rekomendatsiyi. Kyyiv, 2019. (in Ukrainian) 5.Semyhina T.V. Robota v hromadi: praktyka y polityka. K.: Vyd.dim «KM Akademiya», 2004. (in Ukrainian) 6. Upravlinnya rozvytkom obyednanykh terytorialnykh hromad na zasadakh hromadskoyi uchasti: navch. posib. / O. V. Berdanova, V. M. Vakulenko, N. M. Hrynchuk, V. S. Koltun, V. S. Kuybida, A. F. Tkachuk. K. 2017. 129 s. (in Ukrainian)