Author : Melvin Delgado
Release : 2013-01-18
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 140/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice by : Melvin Delgado
Download or read book Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice written by Melvin Delgado. This book was released on 2013-01-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Needs assessments identify the needs for services, answering questions about who needs these services and in what priority. Asset assessments focuses on existing resources; combing both needs and asset assesments helps find the gaps in these services and is useful to organizations and communities. Assets assessments differ dramatically from their needs assessments counterparts along a variety of key dimensions. Asset assessments generally attempt to: (1) focus on capacities rather than problems/needs; (2) actively seek community participation and develop collaborative partnerships; (3) seek to tap and enhance community competencies; (4) seek to equalize power between residents and professionals; (5) be proactive rather than reactive to problems; and (6) stress community contributions and ownership of the process and are thus empowerment-driven.