SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture Notes - Unemployment Benefits, Saul Alinsky, Community Organizing

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOCWORK 1A06
• Professor: Stephanie Ross

Document Summary

Mission- working against racism in the mcmaster community. Work with communities at the community level. They do individual work and how they provides services and information. Community organizer: tenant organizing, working with tenant and having problems with landlords, pest , bed bugs , cleanage, they had more power in numbers to deal with the problems. Community organizing at a city level to make application and presentation to presen to the city for better policys. Social capital the goal of community work being inhansing and improving peoples social capital. Community work- follow a process complex and dynamic. Contact and engagement- very cousin of how we entre the community. A building had a lot of issues, the government put them in the building and gave them no resources, got a bad reputation, no body ever talked about there strengths, the neighbors were really close and willing to help,