Social Service Workers Offer Important Guidance To Communities

On March 28, 2011, in Social Services, by admin
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Social Service Workers Offer Important Guidance To Communities

Article by Jason White

Are you compassionate? Do you have an interest in working with the disadvantaged? Do you rally for women and children’s rights? Are you prepared to change the lives of others for the better? If you answered yes to any of these questions, a career as a Social Service Worker may be for you. These professionals work in shelters, community centres, group homes and advocacy coalitions with populations that include: seniors, assaulted women and children, people with mental illness and developmental disabilities, youth and the homeless or under housed. In their positions, Social Service Workers offer guidance and counseling to people in crisis, obtain government funds for clients, arrange foster homes for children, and begin legal action in cases of child abuse. Some specific duties of these professionals include: contacting each client after being assigned a number of cases to determine the scopes of the situation, counseling and providing resources to meet clients’ needs, maintaining meticulous notes for documentation purposes, working with other agencies to provide the best services, and more.

In the U.S., the employment of Social Service Workers is expected to increase faster than the average for all occupations through 2018. Now is a great time to enter the field. To do that, you must attend a post-secondary institution such as Centennial College in Toronto, Ont., which offers a two-year Social Service Worker program that reflects upon how values and ideologies contribute to the construction of social problems and prescribed solutions.

To apply, students must present at minimum an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent or be 19 years of age or older. Students must also have completed the compulsory English 12C or U or skills assessment, or equivalent. Non-academic requirements such as a program admission session and English proficiency are also considered. As the Social Service Worker program has a field placement component during which students obtain “real-life” experiences, a criminal reference check might be required. Certain criminal convictions may disallow placement in an agency and program completion may not be possible.

Centennial College’s School of Social Work offers its students interactive learning opportunities, including experiences in assessing communities, developing and writing funding proposals, social action plans as well as simulated client interviews and assessments. Students also engage in a dynamic learning process with exposure to group labs, guest speakers, experiential learning, collaborative learning and inter-professional opportunities with other students. Specific courses within the program include: Power, Privilege and Oppression (examines the social, political and economic forces that contribute to the oppression and marginality of particular groups within society, and why certain groups are more likely to be clients of social services agencies); Social Service Work with Groups (allows students to explore and become familiar with the group-process, what happens in groups and why); Social Policy (examines how Canada’s economic and political structures influence the creation of people’s needs); and more.

In-school learning is rounded out by two supported, intensive field placements. Direct work in the field provides the student with the opportunity to experience an entry-level social service placement in a learning environment where application and integration of the philosophy, function and procedure of the social service system takes place.

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Let’s discusses the value of the socialization service

On April 19, 2010, in Social Services, by admin
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Let’s discusses the value of the socialization service

Article by Ligang

What is a socialized q&a service

Triginal sale socialization q&a, personal understanding website is to establish the inquiry platform, more dependent on social networks like Facebook, Twitter (etc), based on the social networks between, on the one hand, through interpersonal relationship network to find an appropriate answer problem of people, on the other hand can also through the socialization way, so that users can know more common topic for people who are interested in, and based on these people find more attention to their interested topic/problem, then forms the socialization of knowledge communities.

And before the q&a service there, compared the most important feature of the socialization q&a socialization, emphasize more people is in the value of problems, answer with a more 2.0 way to find the best answer questions, such as: Digg, wiki, paying attention to the mechanism, etc.

Second, the value of the socialization q&a service

In fact the Internet very early has a q&a website, this site also did summary before, such as Yahoo Answer, Google Answer, baidu know, etc, of course, like Google Answer has been closed, baidu know in the country or very fire, but generally, these early q&a is your web site provides a let users, and users can ask to Answer problem of platform, the process not stressed man or relationship inside value. And this year, especially the development of the social networks of Quora made everybody appeared, and then to a more q&a service socialization of in-depth understanding. Simple analyze Quora also can let everybody more in-depth understanding of the value of the socialization q&a service.

The product features look from Quora the value: the socialization q&a

1. The way in NewsFeed show problem: the core element: constitutes a Quora problems, people, topic. Quora, users can focus on other users, users can also can focus on problems and topic, we know the attention of twitter, one-way make the information transmission speed greatly improved, and is the same as in Quora, paying attention to making the problem transmission mechanism will quickly, and more easy to let know answer people to answer this question. Issues and topics also let users knowledge accumulation way easier, also let users more easily spread between knowledge. 2. Based on the problems of the recommendations and topic recommendation: through this q&a mechanism, can let users convenient in concerned problems of also can also expand the relationship of people circle, and these relationships circle is based on the problem, conversation and formed a recommended based on interest. Based on interest expand community. 3. Better all the packet mode: we just said web2.0 era content, and user contributions Quora obviously one step closer, the user can answer to the question for cooperation, can Digg, or wiki form to obtains the best answer. Let users to organize the site’s problem topic, form relatively systematic knowledge system. Three, foreign socialization q&a service

This before has previously have simple made a summary, of course, the socialization of more than foreign website the mentioned below some:

1. Quora

They had been concern, is that it is because of its former VP Adam D ‘Facebook created Angelo. Mode is: any netizens become the website of the registered users, can use their real id answer other user questions. This q&a service and Wikipedia (Wikipedia) quite similar. More importantly, Quora introduced the concept of socialization relationship can be binding Facebook, Twitter (buyers), the user can you can focus on one subject, a problem, can also Follow focus (one’s all q&a, users can answer to the same question of multiple vote, etc. That is its Twitter Follow mechanism of similar to topic/is introduced, users can ask answer for himself among the interest, or interested in the topic/problem users focus, and can continue to understand the answers to these questions update situation.

Link: quora. Com

2. Aardvark

AardVark is a based on social networks online q&a service platform. May through Facebook account, Google account directly login. User login later can directly into their Gmail, MSN or Facebook friends, and can set themselves interested topic), set the meta (get answers channel (IM and Email, Twitter, etc), the system will be through the way you set the right problem delivery, you can answer, may also recommend you feel the right friends to answer. Already by Google takeover.

Link: vark. Com

3. Formspring

Formspring is a socialized service platform, its qna Slogan is “Ask, please answer & works makes” after registering your existing also can import to MSN platform friends, and can focus on their own friends, will be interested in sharing to Facebook, Twitter problem, etc

Link: formspring. Me

4. Hunch

By Hunch Caterina Fake call it Flickr former co-founder Chris Dixon and prominent angel investors establish. More accurately its maybe not a are really q&a service web site, its can be a recommended service website, Twitter or Facebook users account after landing, just need to answer 20 used to judge whether like, Hunch homepage can appear a series of highly recommended list for your taste, including movies, books, magazines, computers, meals, retreat, etc. Currently recommended Hunch has seven home with engine large sites reached cooperation relations, will provide them with about products, services or content of the personalized recommendation.

Link: hunch. Com

5. Lunch

Lunch is also an online q&a, in addition to the online community based on this platform to answer Lunch this website outside, should pay more attention to let users to find their own interest related topics and people. May through Facebook account login.

Link: lunch. Com

6. Howmutch

Recently formed a q&a HowMutch very distinctive, its website only ask a question: how much will you? Or if let you do one thing, how much will you? The above questions like: let you in star and no restrictions on kerry to drink coffee how much will you? Answers to these problems, the website will tell you how many people than you offer was high, many people than you bid low, and the average bid. You can also let your Facebook and Twitter friends to answer this question. The service should is better suited for company carries on the investigation and study.

Link: howmutch. Com

7. Have a Facebook

Facebook launched such services should also is understandable, this service helps increase user viscosity, enhance the interaction between Facebook relations circles.

Link: facebook. Have a com /

8. ChaCha

ChaCha, founded in 2005, headquartered in indiana karmel (Carmel) city. ChaCha mainly to mobile phone (including regular phones and smartphones, provide various q&a service users free, namely, the user can through the call or send messages to question means such as ChaCha, then ChaCha again with messages to users to return to the answer. Over the past five years, that ChaCha already close to 10 questions qna users per month, at present this website items of independent about 1,500 million user traffic.

Link: chacha. Com

Some of the other countries the socialization q&a service:

Four, domestic socialization q&a service

Domestic this year also appeared a lot of socialization q&a service website, below is currently has some: online

Know the is a “socialized q&a website”, in 2011 January 26th low-key by innovation online, a factory investment. The first known in a period of time, a lot of Internet celebrities invitation in the initial period of time and to invite the amount of control once attracted many people’s attention. So far in this field should be said in the domestic is walking in front, of course, the individual feels the treatment for relationship remains to be strengthened, and the celebrity strategies are long-term work remains to be the test of time.

Link: zhihu. Com

Rice is a similar to Formspring socialization q&a service website.

Link: mifan. Me

Person is also a socialized q&a service website, to construct an open q&a community site. It is an open source project, its also because its name and know the relative should be concerned.

Link: zheye. Org

SiNa is a recently online q&a service socialization, still closed, the Slogan is “complex q&a, SiNa” on

Link: sinan. Com

Ah vexed question is a based on social networks real-time inquiry platform, the user can through MSN, GTalk, E-mail and phone messages and other channels to himself in the ah vexed question the above users real-time of ask a network. User registration after, can set up their interest, ah vexed question becomes according to you set the topic to your list of questions, and you can also set binding Msn, Gtalk or SMS to use ah vexed question, also can set up receiving problem frequency, receiving problem time periods, whether to accept friends circle beyond. After that, you can then through IM and text messages to questions, ah vexed question will find appropriate user will send him have to question answer; Ah vexed question will also according to you to set interest of your interest problem at sent to you.

Link: rfanti. Com

In addition to the above, still to online included baidu knowledge.

Five, the problems and challenges

Regarding the domestic socialization service website, although domestic qna many people do now, also proved this a field, but all relative value in my opinion this field still has a lot of problems waiting to solve.

1. How fast building relationships: foreign social problem has one great advantage lies in Twitter and facebook the two huge ready-made relationships, through its easy to use existing relations group, the more easily spread. Whereas domestic now although also have gradually open relationship, but one is much, but that relationship circle not exceeding the Facebook openness. Of course the breadth and operation of relationship is concerned, the user strategy of the breadth and content focus is by conflict. For just started the socialization service web site building quickly quiz of the relationship is a hope to ponder question. Need 2. Two types of relationships inside the treatment: social problems there are two types of comparative valuable relationship, one is an acquaintance, the relationship between users and experts are common, the relationship between the two types of relationships may need to take the handle in different ways, the knowledge accumulation way possible also want to consider. 3. The way NewsFeed recommended mechanism: can accelerate the spread of admittedly problem, but also means that a bigger possibly information overload, the problem of the recommended recommend mechanism, the topic of system and mechanism are recommended for one of the challenges for the socialization problem service. 4. The organization of content: we talked about socialized service possible problems produced by the way the package better quality of answer, these high quality problems and the answer is to be unearthed, a search is through an appropriate ways of organizing and orderly will appear. Currently quora allows users to problems by topic and light organization apparently still is not enough, the user is a big test for operation. Six, summary

Socialization q&a service is my personal also a field is to value this year, the socialization of q&a service continuously appear also proved that everybody to the direction in this field, but believe promising will more competitive. Of course I personally think the socialization q&a actually just in the beginning stages, in addition there will be many different forms of socialization q&a service, such as professional fields appear vertical socialization service, and geographic location qna combination of socialization q&a service, and video combination of socialization, and cell phone (qna SMS) and combining socialization q&a service, etc.

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