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Social Work. Framework for Outreach Work. Social Work. Social Work is a professional activity that helps to solve social problems. It helps in increasing people’s possibilities. It ensures equal approach to people to improve their well-being. Social Work Goals.
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Social Work Framework for Outreach Work Presentation 7
Social Work • Social Work is a professional activity that helps to solve social problems. • It helps in increasing people’spossibilities. • It ensures equal approach to people to improve their well-being. Presentation 7
Social Work Goals • Social Work aims at making a client free of need in a social worker. • Social Work includes three areas. Presentation 7
1. Management of Social Work • Organization of Social Work, management, social work methodology development. Presentation 7
2. Social Service • Direct service provision to a client to satisfies client’s needs. • Clients – socially disadvantaged people • Disabled people • Children with special needs • Etc. Presentation 7
3. Prevention Social Work • Social supervision of clients representing vulnerable populations. • IDUs • Street children • Client – socially excluded, marginalized, hard-to-reach people. Presentation 7
Outreach Work • OW belongs to the area of Prevention Social Work. • At the same time this areas has management component as well. Presentation 7
Outreach – reaching out Is a method of Social Work that aims at establishing contacts and providing information, counseling, means of prevention to closed social groups in locations most suitable/common for those groups. Central Idea: Rhythm of client’s life defines time, length and place of providing help. Presentation 7
Goals of Outreach Work • Inform clients of risks that emerge from the client’s life style; means of preventing those risks and risks consequences. • Changing client’s behavior from more dangerous to less dangerous. • Making a contact between a client and medical and social services. • Social re-integration of a Client. • Finding volunteers among the clients to conduct peer eduction. Presentation 7
Please think and write down what you FEEL towards • Young man using injecting drugs? • Gay man taking drugs anally? • Heavily pregnant woman injecting heroin? • Heavily pregnant woman injecting methamphetamine? • Client of substitution treatment taking stimulants? • Man forcing his women into sex work to buy drugs? • Woman forcing her daughter into sex work to buy drugs? Presentation 7
Target groups of Outreach Work Vulnerable to HIV populations (IDUs, CSWs, MSM, street children) who: • Can be found in the street; • Have special meeting places; • Due to certain conditions are closed for social service providers. • These characteristics pre-define the way BCC strategies are implemented! Presentation 7
Principles of Outreach Work 1. Objective perception of injection drug users (IDUs). • Choice to use drugs by the other person is taken as a fact. • Neither good nor bad • Methods of work assume that a client is not going to stop using drugs. • Drug users are not made quit taking drugs although they can be motivated for this. • Social Worker’s trap: motivation ≠ making ≠ talking into BUT ₌ to understanding when motivation is needed. Presentation 7
Principles of Outreach Work 2. Prevention support of IDUs as a low threshold service. Low threshold criteria: • IDU is provided help even if s/he is under drugs effect. • IDU is offered help for free: counseling, syringe exchange, etc. Presentation 7
Principles of Outreach Work 3. Free will • IDU makes own choices regarding necessary help from outreach worker. 4. Anonymity • IDU provides outreach worker with the personal information s/he finds is necessary. 5. Confidentiality • Keeping in secret different aspects of client’s life with whom an outreach worker is in contact. Presentation 7
Principles of Outreach Work 6. Non - judgmental attitude towards IDUs • is a moral principle of providing help to anyone who needs this help. 7. Being ready to work with any person independently on his/her believes, values in order to minimize possible harms from drug use. • Refer to “FEEL” exercise. Were you judgmental or not? Presentation 7
Using posters from previous exercise think • Where/for which purposes can you apply outreach work, think of groups you did not provide outreach for. • Which methods might help in establishing outreach work for those groups? • What result of outreach work we aim at? Presentation 7
Results of outreach work • Result of outreach work is a client’s behavior change to less risky with consequent change of destructive aims to instructive ones. Presentation 7
Results of outreach work • Active participants of IDUs in planning prevention programme; • Safer drug use; • Responsible behavior towards sexual partners and close environment • Participation on peer education • Planning and implementation of positive changes in life (treatment, seeking for counseling,visiting self-help groups. Presentation 7
Results of outreach work • The main goal of Outreach work as a type of social work is to create for the client an environment. • Where client can solve own problems with social worker’s help. This can be reached through • Information– providing IEC • Counseling - qualified help in solving problems. • Providing access to social and medical help. Presentation 7