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Social Service/Welfare

Social Service/Welfare. By Rebekah Wilson. Social Service. https://www.grad.stonybrook.edu/brochure/social/. History 1850-1860. Social Service also known as Social Welfare Prior to the 1850s

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Social Service/Welfare

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  1. Social Service/Welfare By Rebekah Wilson

  2. Social Service https://www.grad.stonybrook.edu/brochure/social/

  3. History1850-1860 • Social Service also known as Social Welfare • Prior to the 1850s • social services was seen as charity or relief projects helping disadvantaged individuals through families and churches with minimal assistance from the Government. • 1865-1860’s U.S. Government took control of assisting others: • Freedmen’s Bureau service • offered temporary assistance for recently freed black males (free men) and refugees http://cunysps.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/lending-a-helping-hand/

  4. History1987-1920 • 1987 Community Chest, (United Way) • Ran fundraisers to assist charities, provided relief service, emergency assistance grants, and counseling • 1890’s Social workers and industries analyzed the cause of poverty. • 1900-1920 women and children services provided • Maternal and Infant health service • The Children’s Bureau the‑human‑connection.jpg

  5. History 1920-1940 • 1920- 1940s Great Depression • Governmental economic responsibility shifted to more personal responsibility • President Franklin Roosevelt created the “New Deal” which was: • public relief work programs • Civilian Conservation Crops (Work for unemployed young unmarried men) • Worker Progress Administration (Work for writers, directions, media) • Federal surplus Commodities Corp • 1935-Social Security Act of developed • Social insurances • Public assistance • Food Stamps- largest welfare program helppeople1.jpg

  6. History1960-1970 • 1960- President Lyndon Johnson created Great Society and War of Poverty • Great Society: • Approach to eliminate poverty and racism • War of Poverty: • Office of Economic Opportunity • Economic Opportunity Act • Development of housing, vista, Foster grandparents, Head start, Job Corps, Community Action, Medicare and Food Stamps (Wikipedia, 2012) • 1970 -Anti hunger movement resulting in Food Stamp act 1977 • 1970 Family Planning services Act (Wikipedia) http://www.mikefleischmann.net/?attachment_id=633

  7. History 1977-2000 • 1977 Food Stamp Act • 1980- Governmental restriction of welfare • 1988-1992- President George Bush encouraged volunteerism • 1990- Americans with Disability Act • Equal rights http://bikevirginia.org/volunteer/

  8. Why do we have Social Services? • Social services was designed to help those who are in need of assistance. • Elderly • Poor • Disabled • Unemployed • Parents http://www.arcofva.org/disabilities/how-to-help-the-disabled/

  9. Relationships Public • Assist mothers with their infants • Improve education, financial stability, and promote health lives • Provide inexpensive medical care Organization • Temporary Assistance Needy Families • United Way • Medicaid

  10. Social Service Strengths • Diverse services • Provides adequate services • Assistance to various ages with services • Constantly improving • Helps people get back on their feet help‑people1.gif

  11. Social Service Limitations and weaknesses Past • Insufficient Funds • Services • Could not preform services to full captivity • Caused dependency Present • Prevention of policy manipulation • ex: can not refuse a women to work at a organization yet co workers can make her feel unwelcome) • Causes dependency • Lack of monitoring funds properly • Social security issues

  12. Social Service Fulfill Purpose? • Social service has been accomplishing its goal of helping people who are in need; however it is not accomplishing the goal of doing it sufficiently. http://www.mghpcs.org/socialservice/History.asp

  13. Social Service and Human Service • Social Service are private and public based organizations that are designed to assist a person meet their needs. • Human services are services that helps individuals accomplish there needs through interdisciplinary knowledge, preventions and assistance so they can better their lives. (National Organization for Human Services, 2012)

  14. Thanks! http://myfla.ws/tag/sunset/

  15. References Contemporary Social Welfare Policies. (n.d.). Social Welfare Policy: How We got here. In Rutgers university Libraries. Retrieved October 25, 2012, from http://libguides.rutgers.edu/content.php?pid=137361&sid=1176867. Economic History Association (n.d.) The Freedman’s Bureau. In EH. Net Encyclopedia Retrieved from http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/troost.freedmens.bureau History of social service: summary (n.d.) Retrieved from bkaw.bravepages.com/socsci/0202/HistorySumm.doc Jakobsen, Tor George. (2011) Welfare Attitudes and social Expenditure: Do regimes Shape Public Opinion. Social indictors Research, 101,323-340. Doi:10.1007/s11205-010-9666-8 Marx, Jerry. (n.a.)Current Issues and Programs in Social Welfare. Retrieved from: http://www.socialwelfarehistory.com/recollections/current-issues-and-programs-in-social-welfare/ Moran, Rachel Louise. (2011) Consuming Relief: Food Stamps and the New Welfare of the New Deal. The journal of American History, 97.4, 937-938.

  16. References National Organization for human services. (n.d.). What is Human service? National Organization for human services. Retrieved from http://www.nationalhumanservices.org/what-is-human-services Peterson, Janice. (2002). The TANF reauthorization debate: Key Welfare reform issues and concerns. Journal of Economic Issues, 36.2, pp431-439. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.olympic.edu:2077/docview/208838659/13A2989BC1C1964C9F4/3?accountid=2203 Ratner, Lizzy. (2012) Food Stamps VS Poverty. The Nation, p.12,13 Thompson Lawrence (1994) The Advantages and Disadvantages of different social Welfare Strategies. Retrieved from http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v57n3/v57n3p3.pdf Segal Elizabeth, (2010). Social Welfare Policy and Social Programs: A Values Perspective, Brooks./Cole Cengage Learning. Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books?id=q4xauGiHhqQC&pg=PA329&lpg=PA329&dq=Social+welfare+limitations&source=bl&ots=gfH1RA4xE8&sig=elMFdGIftGHugGLCw1oCfWnR-oM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dzmUUK3FBMSYiALQ6IG4BA&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Social%20welfare%20limitations&f=false Scroop, Daniel. (2007). A commonwealth of hope: the new deal response to crises. Journal of American Studies. 41.3, pp 690-691. Doi: 10.1017/s0021875807004148

  17. References Social Service (n.d.). In Encyclopedia of Chicago. Retrieved from http://www.encylopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1160.html Unknown. (n.d.) Social Welfare History Timeline. [Timeline]. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/26209259/Social-Welfare-History-Timeline Wikipedia (n.d) Civilian Conservation Corps. In Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps Wikipedia (n.d) New Frontier. In Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Frontier Wikipedia (n.d) War on Poverty. In Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty Wikipedia (n.d) Work Progress Administration. In Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

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