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Macro Social Work Practice - Coggle Diagram
Macro Social Work Practice
Levels of Intervention
Community Work
Helping bring people together
Figuring out what the community needs
Working with groups and building coalitions
Organizational Work
Creating and improving programs
Making changes within agencies
Advocating for better systems
Policy Work
Working on laws and policies
Speaking up for social justice
Trying to make a big impact through change
Big Ideas I Learned
Empowering people and communities
Fighting for fairness and justice
Looking at the big picture (systems thinking)
Focusing on strengths, not just problems
Seeing people in their environment
What Macro Social Workers Do
Stand up for others (advocate)
Bring people together (organizer)
Look at laws and how they affect people
Create and run programs
Check what’s working and what’s not
Real-Life Challenges
Not enough money or support
Politics getting in the way
People feeling overwhelmed
Hard to get others to accept change
Skills That Are Important
Leading and guiding others
Talking and listening well
Working with different people and groups
Thinking things through
Doing research and evaluation
Tools and Strategies I Heard About
PREPARE model
Force field analysis
Logic models
SWOT analysis
Building up community strengths
Things We Talked About in Class
Helping refugee communities
Mapping out community resources
Doing advocacy projects
Working with nonprofits