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    Social welfare administration refers to the administrative processes, policies, and programs of social welfare agencies to provide services to client groups. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizational resources to achieve goals. Some key aspects include using social work principles and techniques, focusing on helping individuals and communities, and using social work methods in administrative processes and staff relations. Major administrative responsibilities include studying the community, determining agency purpose and clientele, managing resources and budgets, developing policies and programs, and continuously evaluating programs and personnel.

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    Social welfare administration refers to the administrative processes, policies, and programs of social welfare agencies to provide services to client groups. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizational resources to achieve goals. Some key aspects include using social work principles and techniques, focusing on helping individuals and communities, and using social work methods in administrative processes and staff relations. Major administrative responsibilities include studying the community, determining agency purpose and clientele, managing resources and budgets, developing policies and programs, and continuously evaluating programs and personnel.

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    Social welfare administration refers to the administrative processes, policies, and programs of social welfare agencies to provide services to client groups. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizational resources to achieve goals. Some key aspects include using social work principles and techniques, focusing on helping individuals and communities, and using social work methods in administrative processes and staff relations. Major administrative responsibilities include studying the community, determining agency purpose and clientele, managing resources and budgets, developing policies and programs, and continuously evaluating programs and personnel.

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    Social Welfare Administration

    Refers more specifically to the administrative processes in a social


    welfare agency, the formulation of its policies and their implementation
    into programs & services for specific client groups. It is also referred to
    as Social Welfare Agency Administration.

    Social Work Administration is a method of Social Work concerned with the


    provision and distribution of societal resources so as to enable certain types of
    persons and people to meet their needs & fulfill their potentials.

    Harleigh Trecker (1971) defines social administration as a “process of working


    with people in ways that release & relate their energies so that they use all
    available resources to accomplish the purpose of providing needed community
    services & programs.”

    Trecker’s definition include the ff. common concepts:


    a. Administration is a continuous, dynamic process;
    b. The process is set into motion in order to accomplish a common
    goal;
    a. The resources of people & material are harnessed so that the
    common goal can be achieved;
    b. Coordination & cooperation are the means by which the
    resources of people & material are harnessed;
    c. Implicit in the definition are the elements of planning,
    organizing, staffing, monitoring & evaluation and leadership.
    “Social work administration is a process of planning, leading, organizing, and
    controlling the social work agency’s organizational resources to attain desired
    goals (Leones, 2012). ”

    It is for this reason that social work management and social work administration
    are interchangeably used. In so doing, practitioners, researchers, and the general
    public are not entangled among the myriad concepts and varying lexicons.

    Characteristics of Social Work Administration


    1. Make use of the principles & techniques of administration in general
    2. The use of philosophy, aims & functions of social work, its methods of
    social diagnosis, analysis & synthesis of individual, group or
    community needs, & of generalizations for change or development in
    agency goals & functions.
    3. 3. Its primary focus is a helping process for individuals, groups &
    communities
    4. Social work admin is working with people based on knowledge &
    understanding of human behavior, human relations & human
    organizations
    5. Social work methods are used not only in the services provided by the
    agency but also in the administrative process & staff relations.

    Activities/ Major Administrative Responsibilities (Trecker)


    1. Study the community.
    2. Determine agency purpose as basis for clientele selection.
    3. Provide financial resources, budgeting and accounting.
    4. Develop agency policies, programs, and procedures for the
    implementation of agency purposes.
    5. Select and work with agency leadership, professional and non-
    professional, boards,
    Committees, and service volunteers.
    6. Provide and maintain physical plant, equipment and supplies.
    7. Develop a plan, establish and maintain effective community relations, and
    interpret
    programs .
    8. Keep full and accurate records of agency operations and make regular
    reports.
    9. Continuously evaluate program and personnel, plan and conduct research.

    Social Planning
    The social planning approach emphasizes a technical proc- ess of problem-
    solving with regard to substantive social problems, such as delinquency,
    housing, and mental health. Rational, deliberately planned, and controlled
    change has a central place in this model. Community participation may vary
    from much to little, depending on how the problem presents itself and what
    organizational variables are present. The approach presupposes that change
    in a complex industrial environment requires expert planners who, through
    the exercise of technical abilities, including the ability to manipulate large
    bureaucratic organizations, can skillfully guide complex change processes.
    Planners, especially in social work, are concerned with establishing,
    arranging, and delivering goods and services to people who need them.
    Building community capacity or fostering radical or fundamental social
    change does not play a central part.

    Sustainability Development
    Sustainable development is referred to as the idea that human beings should
    sustain by meeting their basic needs without compromising the future of the
    next generation.
    In other words, it is a way of organizing the society by which it can exist.
    for a long duration without compromising on the availability of resources
    for future generations are able to meet- their basic needs.
    For sustainable development, factors such as preserving the environment
    and natural resources along with maintaining social and economic equality
    need to be followed.

    Participatory development
    One of the most commonly accepted definitions of participatory
    development is as follows: "Participatory development seeks to give the
    poor a part in initiatives and projects that are designed by outside
    organizations in the hopes that these projects will be more sustainable and
    successful by involving local stakeholders in the projects goals.
    Firstly, we think that the end goal of any development effort should never
    be the success or supposed sustainability of the project itself, but rather an
    increase in the sovereignty and wellbeing of the community. In some cases,
    community may determine that the predefined, written goals of a project are
    no longer useful or valuable to the community, and if we are loyal and
    committed to truly participatory development, we need to allow for that
    possibility.
    Secondly, instead of simply giving the poor "a part" in development
    initiatives, we sustain that genuine participatory development seeks to allow
    the poor to determine their own visions and establish their own
    development priorities and agendas. The discrepancies between what is and
    is not participatory development can be further envisaged in the differing
    perspectives within the widely defined theme of participatory development
    to which we will now turn

    Goal Directed Project Management (GDPM) is a management philosophy


    accompanied by a set of tools and principles for planning, organizing, leading
    and controlling projects. The method is characterized by its practical and
    “psychological” approach to both focusing a project group to reach common
    goals and on controlling the progress of each individual.

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