1. Community Organization Models and Approaches

2. Models of Community Organisation
What is Model?
It is a medium through which a person looks at the complex realities.
Models serve as a reference for the work.
Describes strategies for accomplishing a vision.
Rothman has given three models of CO:
Locality Development Model
Social Planning Model
Social Action Model

3. Locality Development Model
Goal Category:
Self Help
Community Integration.
Enhance community capacity to solve problems.
Assumptions:
Community lack viable relationships.
Lack of problem solving capacity.
Traditional static community.
Basic Change Strategy:
Broad based community participation in determining and problem solving.

4. Locality Development Model - cont.
Change Tactics and Techniques:
Consensus
Communication
Group Discussion
Practitioner Roles of Social Worker:
Enabler
Coordinator
Catalyst
Problem solver

5. Social Planning Model Goal Category:
Problem solving with regard to substantive community problems.
Assumptions:
Substantive social problems in employment, housing, health etc.
Basic Change Strategy:
Fact gathering about problems.
Change Tactics and Techniques:
Consensus or conflict
Practitioner Roles of Social Worker:
Fact-finder and analyst,
Program implementers,
Facilitator

6. Social Action Model Goal Category: Shifting of power and resources
Basic institutional change
Assumptions:
Disadvantaged population
Social injustice
Deprivation
Inequity
Basic Change Strategy:
Crystallization of issues and organization of people to take action against enemy targets.

7. Social Action Model - cont.
Change Tactics and Techniques:
Conflict or Contest
Confrontation
Direct Action
Negotiation
Practitioner Roles of Social Worker:
Activist-Advocate
Broker

8. Approaches in Community Organisation
Neighborhood Development Approach
System Change Approach
Structural Change Approach

9. Neighborhood Development Approach
Oldest Model in Community Organization which is mainly practiced in India and other underdeveloped countries for sensitize communities and making them self-reliant, based on value of self- sustenance.
Tasks:
Identifying the geographical area for your intervention
Making our way to the community
Understand the community and identify the felt needs.
Making an appropriate program.
Planning for resource mobilization.
Developing a strong net-work in the community.
Planning for withdrawal from the community

10. System Change Approach
It restructure or modify the system while believing that major social services are rooted in various systems and sometimes system becomes dysfunctional.
Tasks:
Understanding of deficiencies.
Communicating findings.
Making strategies to influence the decision making.
Mobilizing peoples’ participation.
Alliances and partnerships.

11. Structural Change Approach
A rare practiced model of Community Work which believes that society consists of systems. This approach can also be linked to the Political Ideology.
Tasks:
Understanding macro- and micro social realities.
An alternative political ideology.
Helping the communities to identify a
course of action

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