Community-Level Practice Flashcards

A social worker is conducting a community needs assessment. Which data collection method best captures lived experience and contextual nuance from community members?

Answer: Focus groups with purposive sampling

Focus groups with purposive sampling allow community members to share detailed, contextual narratives that quantitative methods cannot capture.

When using an asset-based community development (ABCD) approach, a social worker's primary focus is on:

Answer: Mapping and mobilizing existing community strengths

ABCD centers on identifying and leveraging the skills, associations, and institutions already present within a community rather than focusing on deficits.

A community coalition is experiencing conflict between two member organizations over resource allocation. The social worker's most appropriate role is:

Answer: Facilitate dialogue to reach a mutually acceptable resolution

Facilitating dialogue preserves the coalition's functioning and models collaborative problem-solving consistent with community practice ethics.

Which framework emphasizes that community problems stem from power imbalances and that social change requires shifting those power structures?

Answer: Social action model

The social action model (associated with Alinsky and Rothman) frames community problems as products of power inequity and pursues systemic change.

A social worker notices that a neighborhood's high asthma rates correlate with proximity to an industrial facility. This analysis reflects which practice concept?

Answer: Environmental justice

Environmental justice examines how marginalized communities disproportionately bear environmental hazards and links health disparities to systemic inequity.

When developing a logic model for a community intervention, the 'outputs' column refers to:

Answer: Direct products of program activities (e.g., sessions held, people served)

Outputs are the direct, measurable products of program activities—such as the number of workshops delivered or clients reached.

A community organizer wants to increase voter registration among low-income residents. Applying Freire's concept of 'conscientization' means:

Answer: Helping residents critically analyze how political exclusion affects their lives

Conscientization involves raising critical consciousness so that oppressed groups understand structural causes of their situation and act to change them.