Question Description
Assignment: AssessmentApplication
Engagement and Assessment of Communities
Working with entire communities andorganizations might seem overwhelming, due to the large number of peopleinvolved. Where do you begin? It might be a relief to know that the GIM is justas useful to social workers practicing at the macro level as it is for thosepracticing at the micro and mezzo levels. In fact, you begin the process in thesame way with proper engagement and the appropriate form of assessment beforeenacting an intervention. Successful engagement and assessment depends onstrong interpersonal skills, regardless of the level of intervention. In somerespects, skills such as empathy, warmth, genuineness, and generalrapport-building are the same for macro work as they are for micro and mezzowork—they just may be applied in a different way. In other respects, this levelof intervention depends on additional skills not often identified as socialwork-related, including negotiating, mediating, assessing, and budgeting. Howmight you utilize these skills when engaging and assessing communities? Acompetent and successful social work policy practitioner is able to meld theseskills. This is of particular necessity when the goal is social change.
For this Assignment, review this week’s Resources. Refer to thecommunity you selected for this week’s Discussion.( Dallasin Luzerne County, Pennsylvania) Then imagine that you have been assigned to complete a needsassessment and identify potential resources for this community. You elected tointerview key informants as one form of assessing this community. Consider whoyou would contact as a key informant for this community. Finally, think abouthow you might engage the informant to obtain the community details to completeyour needs assessment.
Assignment: (2- to 4-page paperin APA format).
Your paper should include the following:
oA description of the community you selected
oA description of the key informants you wouldcontact within that community
oAn explanation of why you would contact the keyinformants you selected
oAn explanation of the skills you might use toengage these informants to obtain the community details to complete your needsassessment and explain why you chose those skills.
Assignment: Assessment Application Engagement and Assessment of CommunitiesWorking with entire communities and organizations might seem overwhelming, due to the large number of people involved. Where do you begin? It might be a relief to know that the GIM is just as useful to social workers practicing at the macro level as it is for those practicing at the micro and mezzo levels. In fact, you begin the process in the same way with proper engagement and the appropriate form of assessment before enacting an intervention. Successful engagement and assessment depends on strong interpersonal skills, regardless of the level of intervention. In some respects, skills such as empathy, warmth, genuineness, and general rapport-building are the same for macro work as they are for micro and mezzo work—they just may be applied in a different way. In other respects, this level of intervention depends on additional skills not often identified as social work-related, including negotiating, mediating, assessing, and budgeting. How might you utilize these skills when engaging and assessing communities? A competent and successful social work policy practitioner is able to meld these skills. This is of particular necessity when the goal is social change.For this Assignment, review this week’s Resources. Refer to the community you selected for this week’s Discussion.( Dallas in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania) Then imagine that you have been assigned to complete a needs assessment and identify potential resources for this community. You elected to interview key informants as one form of assessing this community. Consider who you would contact as a key informant for this community. Finally, think about how you might engage the informant to obtain the community details to complete your needs assessment.Assignment: (2- to 4-page paper in APA format).Your paper should include the following:oA description of the community you selectedoA description of the key informants you would contact within that communityoAn explanation of why you would contact the key informants you selectedoAn explanation of the skills you might use to engage these informants to obtain the community details to complete your needs assessment and explain why you chose those skills.
