ROLES OF SOCIAL WORKERS HANDLING CASES INVOLVING CAR AND CICL.pptx

ROLES OF SOCIAL WORKERS HANDLING CASES INVOLVING CAR AND CICL.pptx

1. ROLES OF SOCIAL WORKERS HANDLING CASES INVOLVING CAR AND CICL Arwin R. Trinidad, RSW Social Welfare Assistant CICL Welfare Program Focal Person CSWDO Lucena

2. LIST OF SOCIAL WORKER ROLES Advocate Counselor Mediator Researcher Educator Manager Case Manager Facilitator Community Change Agent Broker

3. ADVOCATE Fights for the rights of the disempowered children at risk and children in conflict with the law The goal is to empower the client. KEY FUNCTION: speaks IN BEHALF of clients when others will not listen or when clients are unable to do so.

4. COUNSELOR In this role, we help clients EXPRESS their needs, CLARIFY their problems, EXPLORE resolution strategies, and APPLIES intervention strategies to develop and expand client’s capacities to deal with their problems more efficiently KEY FUNCTION – empower people by affirming their personal strengths and capacities to dea l with their own problems.

5. MEDIATOR The social worker here intervenes in disputes in between parties to help them Find compromises Reconcile differences Reach mutually satisfying agreements KEY FUNCTION: take a neutral stance among the involved parties.

6. RESEARCHER The social worker here critically analyzes and evaluates program outcomes with others. A researcher extends and disseminates knowledge, and seeks to enhance the effectiveness of practice. KEY FUNCTION: research as basis for evaluation and assessment of key practice areas

7. EDUCATOR In the educator role, we are involved in teaching people about resources and how to develop particular skills. One key element here as a social worker is sharing your personal knowledge aimed to either inspire or capacitate your clients to bring out their full potentials.

8. CASE MANAGER The social worker here locates services and assists their clients to access those services. KEY FUNCTION: Case management (overall: action planning, referral and coordination, social broker)

9. COMMUNITY CHANGE AGENT Our role here acts in coordinated manner to achieve planned change at multiple levels Shifting of the focus of institutional resources to meet identified goals KEY FUNCTION/S: seeks to improve or restructure some aspect of community service provision; uses a problem-solving model to: Identify the problem Solicit community input Plan for change

10. FACILITATOR In this role, social workers are involved in gathering groups of people together for a variety of purposes such as but not limited to the following: Community development Self-advocacy Political organization Policy change KEY FUNCTION: involved as group therapists and task group leaders.

11. BROKER The social worker’s KEY FUNCTION and responsibility here is to IDENTIFY, LOCATE, and LINK clients to needed resources in a timely and efficient manner. Once the client’s needs are assessed and potential services are identifies, the broker assists the clients in choosing the most appropriate service options and assists in negotiating the terms of service delivery. In this role, we are also concerned with the quality, quantity, and accessibility of services.

12. MANAGER As managers, social workers are better able to influence policy change and/or development, and to advocate, on a larger scale, for all underprivileged people. KEY FUNCTION: management of discussions, policy formulation, and management of resources

13. THANK YOU!