Chapter Five Progress Notes/PawPals Project Duties:
Social workers’ perception of community can have complex meanings and are not all the same. For instance, our project: PawPals addresses two needs in the community: the use of therapy dogs to alleviate mental distress and support the need of homeless youth.
• (Schyler and Leigh will begin composing a proposal to Covenant House of GA, which will allow therapy dogs on site to engage with homeless youth).
Authors: Netting, Kettner, McMurtry, & Thomas (2012) state, “one of the big issues we confront in this chapter is weather social workers are best served by looking at communities as places where people’s interests are linked by geographic closeness” (p.117).
• For our project, we will be looking at the community in Atlanta, GA (Covenant House of GA) and therapy dogs in the metro Atlanta area. • (Taeshana and I are doing outreach within the community and online to make our project known. For example: establishing a meet-up group, press release, reaching media/radio to explain our project. Also, we will reach online communities too: Facebook, Instagram, Dosomething.org, etc). The word, community was established by Ferdinand Tonnies (1887/1957) who stated, “community focuses on the mutual, intimate, and common bonds that pull people together in local units” (Netting, Kettner, McMurtry, & Thomas (2012), p.118). Tonnies also mentioned another concept of community: the association of a relationship or a formal type of relationship to complete task. Tonnies’ work is important to community theory. Netting, Kettner, McMurtry & Thomas (2012) state, “Warren (1978) characterized community as (1) space, (2) people, (3) shared values and institutions, (4) interaction, (5) distribution of power, and (6) social system” (p.119). *Communities may not be clearly defined and can be formal and informal. * • (Madi has been reaching out (formal community: UGA/School of Social Work) on campus for an academic professor named: Mrs. Patricia Reeves to get involved with our project: PawPals. She is also examining other forms of communities (formal/informal) to see if they want to be involved with our project.) Netting, Kettner, McMurtry & Thomas (2012) state, “Chaskin (2013) contends that community occurs around three dimensions: physical, social, or relational, and political” (p.119) • (Physical space: event with therapy dogs will be conducted at the Covenant House of GA. …show more content…
Social: interaction between homeless youth and therapy assisted dogs. Political: Covenant House staff/ and owners of therapy dogs agreeing to project plan.)
*Establishment of a community depicts an identify that can move toward the process of social change. *
• (Our project is shaped around the idea of improving mental health (trauma) for homeless youth. Having animal (dogs) assisted therapy has been effective in improving overall mental health, especially individuals that have experienced trauma.)
Netting, Kettner, McMurtry & Thomas (2012) state, “People are assumed to need some form of social outlet, and communities provide opportunities for people to express this need and to build natural helping and support networks” (p. 123).
• (Our project understands that homeless youth need outlets. Having animal (dogs) assisted therapy will help build a support network. Alexandria has started the research process of why animal (dogs) assisted therapy is vital for our research proposal.) Systems Theory approach: Netting, Kettner, McMurtry & Thomas (2012) state, “macro practitioners will witness the struggle for boundary maintenance in their work with communities and organizations” (p. 126). Mechanical Analogy: Organismic Analogy: Morphogenic Analogy: Factional Analogy: Catastrophic Analogy: Views a social system as a machine in which all the parts work closely together, are well coordinated, and integrate smoothly (p.126). Comes from comparing social systems to biological organisms. Communities are viewed much like the human body, with each organ having a different function (p.127). Is applicable when change is ongoing and the structure of the system is continually emerging (p. 127). In which contentiousness in a community system is open and obvious (p. 127). Is defined by contentiousness and conflict taken to extremes (p.128). • Being that we are all social workers, these analogies do occur in large scale social systems. We must be mindful in our project that differences will occur but we must maintain homeostasis. Ecology Theory approach: Netting, Kettner, McMurtry & Thomas (2012) state,
Social workers’ perception of community can have complex meanings and are not all the same. For instance, our project: PawPals addresses two needs in the community: the use of therapy dogs to alleviate mental distress and support the need of homeless youth.
• (Schyler and Leigh will begin composing a proposal to Covenant House of GA, which will allow therapy dogs on site to engage with homeless youth).
Authors: Netting, Kettner, McMurtry, & Thomas (2012) state, “one of the big issues we confront in this chapter is weather social workers are best served by looking at communities as places where people’s interests are linked by geographic closeness” (p.117).
• For our project, we will be looking at the community in Atlanta, GA (Covenant House of GA) and therapy dogs in the metro Atlanta area. • (Taeshana and I are doing outreach within the community and online to make our project known. For example: establishing a meet-up group, press release, reaching media/radio to explain our project. Also, we will reach online communities too: Facebook, Instagram, Dosomething.org, etc). The word, community was established by Ferdinand Tonnies (1887/1957) who stated, “community focuses on the mutual, intimate, and common bonds that pull people together in local units” (Netting, Kettner, McMurtry, & Thomas (2012), p.118). Tonnies also mentioned another concept of community: the association of a relationship or a formal type of relationship to complete task. Tonnies’ work is important to community theory. Netting, Kettner, McMurtry & Thomas (2012) state, “Warren (1978) characterized community as (1) space, (2) people, (3) shared values and institutions, (4) interaction, (5) distribution of power, and (6) social system” (p.119). *Communities may not be clearly defined and can be formal and informal. * • (Madi has been reaching out (formal community: UGA/School of Social Work) on campus for an academic professor named: Mrs. Patricia Reeves to get involved with our project: PawPals. She is also examining other forms of communities (formal/informal) to see if they want to be involved with our project.) Netting, Kettner, McMurtry & Thomas (2012) state, “Chaskin (2013) contends that community occurs around three dimensions: physical, social, or relational, and political” (p.119) • (Physical space: event with therapy dogs will be conducted at the Covenant House of GA. …show more content…
Social: interaction between homeless youth and therapy assisted dogs. Political: Covenant House staff/ and owners of therapy dogs agreeing to project plan.)
*Establishment of a community depicts an identify that can move toward the process of social change. *
• (Our project is shaped around the idea of improving mental health (trauma) for homeless youth. Having animal (dogs) assisted therapy has been effective in improving overall mental health, especially individuals that have experienced trauma.)
Netting, Kettner, McMurtry & Thomas (2012) state, “People are assumed to need some form of social outlet, and communities provide opportunities for people to express this need and to build natural helping and support networks” (p. 123).
• (Our project understands that homeless youth need outlets. Having animal (dogs) assisted therapy will help build a support network. Alexandria has started the research process of why animal (dogs) assisted therapy is vital for our research proposal.) Systems Theory approach: Netting, Kettner, McMurtry & Thomas (2012) state, “macro practitioners will witness the struggle for boundary maintenance in their work with communities and organizations” (p. 126). Mechanical Analogy: Organismic Analogy: Morphogenic Analogy: Factional Analogy: Catastrophic Analogy: Views a social system as a machine in which all the parts work closely together, are well coordinated, and integrate smoothly (p.126). Comes from comparing social systems to biological organisms. Communities are viewed much like the human body, with each organ having a different function (p.127). Is applicable when change is ongoing and the structure of the system is continually emerging (p. 127). In which contentiousness in a community system is open and obvious (p. 127). Is defined by contentiousness and conflict taken to extremes (p.128). • Being that we are all social workers, these analogies do occur in large scale social systems. We must be mindful in our project that differences will occur but we must maintain homeostasis. Ecology Theory approach: Netting, Kettner, McMurtry & Thomas (2012) state,