Soc.

Wk 124
Social Welfare Policies,
Programs and Services
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
• This course is about the interrelationship of Social
Welfare, Social Policy, and Social Work in establishing
different social services among the individuals and
communities. The Social Worker as being the prime
mover will facilitate, coordinate and collaborate to
possible actions to undertake and certain interventions
to different clientele system in order to attain
community development, integral development and
sustainable development. Various approaches, theories
and methodologies will be also discussed in this course 
in order to grasp and realize the importance of
different social services and its impact to the people
particularly in the enhancement of their well-being.
 COURSE OUTLINE
SUBJECT LEARNING OBJECTIVES TIMELINE
MATTER
I. Social Work, Social Distinguish Social Work, Social Welfare, 4th week of January to
Welfare, Social policy Social policy including their 1st week of February
  complimentary relationship in the 2021
profession.
 
 
 
II. The Policy Based Identify the emphasis of Social Work 2nd week of February
Profession Profession in providing Social Welfare to 2021
  the people

III. Social Welfare Explicate the different types , kinds, 3rd week of February
Policy nature characteristics of Social Welfare 2021
Policy
 

IV. Millennium Elucidate the purpose and importance of 4th week of February
Developmental Goals Millennium Developmental Goals in 2021
attaining Social Justice.
 COURSE OUTLINE
SUBJECT LEARNING OBJECTIVES TIMELINE
MATTER
V. Policy Process Understand the aspect of social work practice 4th week of February to 1st
• Agenda Setting especially on the Policy process as well as the week of March 2021
• Policy Formulation new emerging trends
• Policy
Legitimization
• Policy
Implementation
• Policy Evaluation
 
VI. The DSWD as the Explicate the agency`s vision-mission, 2nd week of March 2021
main institution mandate, programs and services in our
• Vision society.
• Mission
• Mandate
• Programs
• Services
 

VII. Policy Advocacy Identify and explain the different multiple 3rd week of March 2021
policies and laws in the context of Social
Welfare
 COURSE OUTLINE
SUBJECT MATTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES TIMELINE
VIII. The Social Work and Understand the aspect of social 1st week of April 2021
the Law work practice especially on
• The 1987 Constitution- mandate of the State in
Article 2 providing social services
• SRA-NAPC  
• RA 7160  
• EO 209  
 
 
IX. Cross-cutting laws on Identify and explain the 2nd week to 3rd week of April
Children different multiple policies and 2021
• RA 7610 laws in the context of Social
• RA 9231 Welfare
• RA 9775
• PD 603
• RA 9344
• RA 9523
WELCOME TO THE WORLD
OF
SOCIAL WORK
WHAT IS SOCIAL WORK

WHAT IS SOCIAL WELFARE

WHAT IS SOCIAL POLICY

SOCIAL WORK SOCIAL
AND SOCIAL POLICY
 SOCIAL WELFARE
• It is an organized system of social services
and institutions, designed to aid
individuals and groups to attain satisfying
standard of life and health.
• It includes laws/policies, programs,
benefits, and services which assure or
stregthen provisions for meeting social
needs recognized as basic well-being of
population and the better functioning of
the social order.
• It is an organized social arrangements
which have as their direct and
primary objective the well-being of
people in a social context
• It encompasses the well-being of all
the members of human society,
including their physical, mental,
emotional, social, economic and
spiritual well-being.
•Society responds unmet
needs or problems through
the following ways:
▫ Individual and group efforts
of the people in the
community
▫ Major societal institutions
▫ Social agency under public or
private auspices.
 FUNCTIONS OF
SOCIAL WELFARE
• Assistance and services to the
poor and the disadvantaged
• Collective responsibility to
meet universal needs of the
population
• Laws, programs and benefits
and services for meeting social
needs
• Organized system of social services and
institutions designed to aid individuals
and groups to attain satisfying standards
of life; and health and personal and social
relationships that permit them to develop
their full capacities and to promote well
being in harmony with the needs of their
families and community
• Means for meeting human needs that
serve the common good.
PURPOSE OF SOCIAL
WELFARE
PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL WELFARE

• RESIDUAL
• INSTITUTIONAL
• DEVELOPMENTAL
• 1. Promoting the well-being of both
individual and of society as a whole
• 2. The treatment and prevention of social
problem
• 3. The development of human resources
• 4. The improvement of the quality of life
• 5. The maintenance and improvement of
the social order for the promotion of
social stability of all people in society
1. RESIDUAL
• Focuses on problems and gaps;
benefits and services are
supplied only when people fail
to provide adequately for
themselves and problems arise,
often temporary and
withdrawn when the regular
social system.
2. INSTITUTIONAL

• People`s needs are normal part of

life; society has the responsibility
to support members and provide
needed benefits and services;
people have the right to receive
benefits and services.
3. DEVELOPMENTAL
• A process of planned social
change designed to promote
the well-being of the
population as a whole in
conjunction with a dynamic
process of economic
development.
 SOCIAL WORK
• The profession which is primarily
concerned with organized social service
activity aimed at facilitating and
strengthening basic social relationships and
the mutual adjustment between individual
and their social environment for the good of
the individual and of society by the use of
social work methods” (RA 4373)
• The Social Work profession
promotes:
 Social change
 Problem solving in human
relationships
 Empowerment ; and
 Liberation of people to enhance
well-being
• Utilizing theories of human behavior,
social work intervenes at the points
where people interact with their
environments. Principles of human
rights and social justice are fundamental
to social work
• Underpinned by theories of Social Work,
social sciences, humanities and
indigenous knowledge, social work
engages people and structures to address
life challenges and enhance well-being.
 SOCIAL WORK METHODS

• Casework – working with

individuals
• Group work – working with
groups
• Community Organizing –
working with the communities
 POLICY
•It refers to a course or
principle of action adopted
or proposed by a
government, party,
business, or individual.
 PROGRAM
• It refers to
a planned, coordinated group of ac
tivities, procedures, etc., often for 
as
specific purpose, or a facility offeri
ng such a series of activities
 
OVERVIEW
OF POLICY
PRACTICE
 SOCIAL POLICY
• It refers to a decision made by
public or governmental,
authorities, regarding the
assignment and allocation of
resources, rights and
responsibilities and expressed in
laws and governmental
regulations.
SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY
•These are social policies
that focus primarily on
the distribution of
benefits to those in need
 FOUR (4) DICHOTOMOUS
APPROACHES TO THE LEGISLATIVE
PROCESS
1. Generic VS Categorical Approach
2. Holistic VS Segmented Approach
3. Rational VS Crisis Approach
4. Future Planning VS Political context
approach
 Generic VS Categorical
Approach
• Generic approach- it seeks a
particular outcome for an entire
population, such as health care or
housing for all in society.
• Categorical approaches-focuses
only on one segment of the
population such as housing for
elderly or health care for children.
Holistic VS Segmented Approach
• Holistic approach- it attempts
to address the needs or concerns
of the total person or the whole
family.
• Segmented approach-focuses
on a single factor such as in an
individual`s income or nutrition.
Rational VS Crisis Approach
• Rational approach- places a
heavy emphasis in deriving social
policy from a careful and thorough
study and problem and issues.
• Crisis approach- creates policy
as a hurried and usually highly
political reaction to a crisis or
serious problem.
Future Planning VS Political
context approach
• Future Planning- gives careful
consideration to social trends and
probable future developments
and tries to anticipate how the
various option would fit with
what can be expected in the
future.
• Political context- is mostly
concerned with solving an
immediate problem and allows
the policy to be determined
mostly by popular opinion,
political interests and pragmatic
assumptions about the supported
and tolerated by the dominant
forces in society
PUBLIC SOCIAL POLICY
• Is created when legislative
body enacts a law
• They are found in legal codes,
executive orders, statements
and speeches made by high
ranking officials.
PRIVATE SOCIAL POLICY
•These are policies
enacted by large private
or non-governmental
organizations
VALUES PERSPECTIVES ON
SOCIAL WELFARE WHICH
AFFECT POLICY
FORMULATION
•Conservatism
•Liberalism
•radicalism
CONSERVATISM
• It refers to the philosophy that
individuals are responsible for
themselves, that the government
should provide nominal
interference in people1s lives and
that change is generally
unnecessary.
 PRINCIPLES OF
CONSERVATISM
• It is individual`s responsibility to
work and succeed.
• Failure to succeed is generally the
individual`s fault.
• The government should not interfere
unless absolutely necessary
 LIBERALISM
• It is the philosophy that
supports government
involvement in social, political
and economic structure so that
all people`s rights and
privileges are protected in the
name of social justice.
 PRINCIPLES OF
LIBERALISM
• It is society`s responsibility to care and
support its members
• Failure to succeed generally is due to
complex, unfair stresses and problems in
the environment
• It is government`s responsibility to
support its citizens and help them cope
with stresses and problems in their
environment.
 RADICALISM
•It is the philosophy that the
social and political system
as it stands is not
structurally capable of truly
pursuing social justice
SITUATING POLICY
PRACTICE AND
PROGRAM
DEVELOPMENT IN
SOCIAL WORK
PRACTICE
• 1. Policy and Program Development is
considered as the macro-practice of
social work.
• 2. It is also considered as secondary
form of practice compared to direct
practice.
• 3. The dual focus of social functioning
and the Person in Environment
perspective show that the social
worker intervenes not only with
person but also the environment.
• 4. The sustaining environment of the
person includes the general community,
media, political systems, economic
resources, the educational system, social
welfare institutions and the larger societal
system.
• 5. Policy and Program Development is the
government`s way of intervening in the
human condition and affecting social
welfare. Changes in social welfare systems
are done through policy and program
development
• 6. In promoting Social Justice, Social
Workers need to “ work for social and
economic justice and needed reforms in
ways that recognize and consider these
legitimate differences of opinion, as they
maintain respect for those who disagree
with their ideas as to how best attain a just
society”.
• 7. The Social Worker`s Role as System
Developer: as program developer, policy
and procedure developer and as an
advocate.