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Module 2
Planning:
When
you are planning for a Social
Welfare Organisation, you have to understand that
normally a Social Welfare Organisation is engaged
in two types of pursuits:
- Changing
people's habits, activities, beliefs, behaviour,
patterns, etc:
A large number of correctional institutions, particularly
the long-terms ones, fall in this category. These
organisations are "usually concerned with effecting
new and diffused modes of behaviour, new self-image
of personalities."
- Those
social welfare organisations, which are primarily
concerned with distributive services:
The main concern of these organisations is
to provide services, which will help groups and
individuals to overcome their handicaps.
Thus
a Social Welfare Organisation may be considered
effective if it serves the right clients and produces
the desired outcome called the outcome effectiveness
and thus being able to achieve its service
goals.
A
social organisation may be pursuing a chain of goals
- comprising outcome goals (i.e., reduce
poverty, dependency, criminals, to promote child
welfare, effective family functioning, prevent family
break- down, prevent juvenile delinquency, etc)
Input
goals are finances, personnel, office space,
etc.
System
maintenance goals - policy regarding personnel management,
quality control, performance accountability.
Output
goals (i.e., quantity of service - so many
adoptions and foster home placements, quality of
services, - rate of success and failure, coverage
of service- meeting a defined need, serving a defined
population)
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