Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice

✍ Scribed by Melvin Delgado; Denise Humm-Delgado

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Subjects

Social service. ; Community organization. ; Community health services -- Planning.; NON000000; NON000000; SOC025000