PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

PRINCIPLES IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL WELFARE

By C. F. McNeil

McNeil has mentioned the following principles:

. Community Organization for social welfare is concerned with people and their needs. Its objective is to enrich human life by bringing about and maintaining a progressively more effective adjustment between social welfare resources and social welfare needs.

2. The community is the primary client in community organization for social welfare

3. It is an axiom in community organization that the community is to be understood and accepted as it is and where it is. Understanding the climate in which community organization process is taking place is essential if seeds of that process are to be bear fruit.

4. All the people of the community are concerned in its health and welfare services. Representation of all interests and elements in the population and their full and meaningful participation are essential objectives in community organization.

5. The fast of ever changing human needs and the reality of relationship between and among people and groups are the dynamic in the community organization process.

6. Interdependence of all threads in the social welfare fabric of organization is a fundamental truth.

7. Community organization for social welfare as a process is a part of generic social work. Knowledge of its methods and skill in their application will enhance the potentialities for growth and development of any community effort to meet human needs.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OFCOMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

By Ray Johns and David F. Demarche

. Community Organization is a means and not an end. Organization, personnel, program, knowledge, and skills are only means to an end- the welfare and growth or peoples end.

2. Communities like individuals and groups, are different. Each has its own peculiarities, its own problems, and needs. To deal with Communities effectively, they must be individualized.

3. Communities, like individuals, have a right to self-determination.

4. Social need is the basis for Organization.

5. Community welfare rather than agency self-interest should be the first consideration in determining program.

6. Coordination is a process of growth.

7. Community Organization structure should be kept as simple as possible.

8. Services should be distributed equitably.

9. Diversity in program approach should be respected.

0. There should be broad representation in inter-agency bodies.

1. There must be a balance between centralization and decentralization.

2. Barriers to communication must be broken down.

3. Communities need professional help.

SOME PRINCIPLES RELATED TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

By Murray G. Ross

. Discontent with existing conditions in the community must initiate and nourish the development of the association.

2. Discontent must be focused and channeled into organization, planning, and action in respect to specific problem.

3. Discontent, which initiates or sustains community organization must be widely shared in the community.

4. The association must involve leaders (both formal and informal) identified with, and accepted by, major subgroups in the community.

5. The association must have goals and methods of procedure of high acceptability.

6. The program of association should include some activities with emotional content.

7. The association should seek to utilize the manifest and latent goodwill, which exist in the community.

8. The association must develop active and effective lines of communication both within the association and between the association and community.

9. The association should seek to support and strengthen the groups, which it brings together in cooperative work.

0. The association should be flexible in its organizational procedures without disrupting its regular decision-making routines.

1. The association should develop a pace for its work relative to existing conditions in the community.

2. The association should seek to develop effective leaders.

3. The association must develop strength, stability, and prestige in the community.

CONCLUSION

In this present world of the mixed economy of welfare, Community Organization has a potentially more vital contribution to make. Community worker can support communities to come together. So that they can work out their needs and then take action to meet those needs. Community organizers can help community to locate the resources in the society through which the need may be fulfilled.

REFERENCES

. SOCIAL WORK PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS, P. D. Misra

2. SOCIAL WORK: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH, Sanjay Bhattacharya

3. COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION IN ACTION, Earnest B. Harper, Arthur Dunham