Essential Skills for Social Work Practice

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Have you ever wondered why some areas appear to be safe, clean, and filled with many varied businesses, while others appear run down and lined with only check-cashing centers, fast-food restaurants, and liquor stores? As a macro social worker, you often will see that communities thrive and falter due to the resources available. The ways in which society provides and allocates resources disproportionately benefits certain groups while harming others through lack of resources or displacement.All communities have strengths despite their challenges. Use of the strengths-based perspective helps you to identify the potential strengths of a community and how to advocate for its members to obtain the resources and services they need to be successful.To PrepareIdentify characteristics that represent your community. Then, take a picture that represents these characteristics in your community. Note that your photo does not need to be literal—it can be symbolic.By Day 3Post a response to

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This post will identify how the picture represents the characteristics of the author's community. A description of the strengths and challenges associated with this community and an explanation of how this community uses its powers to address its challenges. The picture posted represents a part of an urban community where people report for social services. On one side of the photograph, vehicle passing indicates that this community is well interlinked and strategically located. Additionally, characteristics represented in this photo include; strength and lack of teamwork.

Collaboration is essential "between the people supported by services and teamwork, allowing them to work together to identify a draw on the individual's skills a

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