Deck 18: Community Capacity Building: a Re-Conceptualization of Services for the Protection of Children

Question 1

How does the author of chapter 18 propose to re-conceptualize child welfare?

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

Find a recent (past six months) newspaper article in which issues of child welfare are discussed in your community. Offer a critical analysis of how the issue is presented through this medium.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Find an example of building community capacity in your community.

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Find a recent journal article discussing child welfare in Canada. Provide the article and a summary of the main issues.

Question 5

What issues does the author identify in terms of the use of language? Provide three other examples of de-humanizing language used outside the area of child welfare.

Question 6

Identify three issues that tend to remain in the background of child protection interventions.

Question 7

Identify three rights that the author argues people should have.

Question 8

Identify three family-centred interventions.

Question 9

What do the terms "at-risk" and "at-promise" mean?

Question 10

At promise is the suggested substitute language for

A) Children and families at risk
B) Crown wards
C) Adolescents
D) Foster children
E) None of the above

Question 11

At risk

A) Perpetuates the strengths concept of families
B) Perpetuates deficit-model assumptions
C) Conveys the importance of identifying many problems faced by parents and children outside their families
D) All of the above
E) B and C above

Question 12

Family wellness is more than the absence of discord, it involves

A) Economic supports
B) More control for social workers in agencies
C) Maintenance of the existing policies
D) A and B above.
E) None of the above

Question 13

Social workers in child welfare experience

A) Good pay
B) Low attrition rate
C) Unmanageable workloads
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 14

Most social workers work in:

A) Collective organizations
B) Community organizations
C) Hierarchical organizations
D) Feminist organizations

Question 15

An approach that involves bringing services to children and families out of the professional/bureaucratic paradigm and into the citizen/family/community paradigm is called:

A) Community capacity building
B) Extra-bureaucratic approach
C) Intra-community approach
D) Family capacity building

Question 16

A re-conceptualization of child welfare suggests that integral dimensions of professional practice include

A) Reflective inquiry
B) Control by social workers
C) Rigid procedures and policies
D) All of the above
E) A and B above

Question 17

A re-conceptualization suggests the exclusion of the following

A) Professionals
B) Organizations
C) Citizens
D) Families
E) None of the above

Question 18

Collaboration requires social workers

A) To give up power and control
B) To stay with established policies and procedures
C) To keep power and control
D) B and C above
E) None of the above

Question 19

The re-conceptualization suggested

A) Must recognize that protection of children must move beyond social workers
B) Must build upon the knowledge base we gain through research and experiences
C) Must include parents, teachers, law enforcement officials, courts, mental health workers, public health workers, and other citizens
D) All of the above

Question 20

Maltreatment of children through their exposure to family violence has increased in recent years.

Question 21

The concept of children and families at risk recognizes the strengths perspective and family resiliency.

Question 22

The concept of families at risk perpetuates deficit-model assumptions and discourse.

Question 23

Treating people as "cases" dehumanizes them

Question 24

The CASW child welfare research project identifies shortage of qualified social workers as an issue in child welfare systems.

Question 25

Family wellness refers only to the absence of discord.

Question 26

Wellness is an ecological concept that suggests the importance of social and economic supports.

Question 27

Children have considerable power in society and a strong political voice.

Question 28

Doing things differently in child welfare would suggest moving into prevention, early intervention, and outreach.

Question 29

Family-centred and community capacity-building approaches to child protection work are essential.