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Strengths Based Practice In Reaching Out to Low Income Families
Any CombinationTime to Share
Mixed & Best oF FriendsLearners Need to Split
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What’s in a Name?
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Social Work’s Mission
Social Work’s Mission
What is the Mission of Social Work? How does it reflect in the work we do with LIFs? How does SB Approaches to LIF fit with the mission?
Its mission is to enable all people to develop their full potential, enrich their
lives, and prevent dysfunction.
IFSW, Montreal 2000
The primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well being and
help meet the basic human needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are
vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty.
NASW (2008)
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Are poor families disenfranchised?
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What do you think of them?
How do you think about them?
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Multi Stressed Families
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Multi Strengths Families
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StrengthsAbilitiesAssets
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Patience
Endurance
Passion
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Acknowledge ThemHow do you do it
How does your agency do it?
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BRIEF Model
Brief Academy Singapore
Build the relationship
Review what is important
Inquire into what is working already
Expand on the strategies and small steps
Facilitate the progress
Brief Academy Singapore
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Bio
Psycho
Social
Spiritual
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CollaborativeVisuals
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Focus Needed Social WorkerSocial Workers
Agency SupportAgency Direction
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Principles
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Every individual, group, family, and community has strengths
Trauma and abuse, illness and struggle, may be injurious but they may also be sources of
challenge and opportunity.
Assume that you do not know the upper limits of the capacity to grow and change. Take individual,
group, and community aspirations seriously.
We best serve clients by collaborating with them.
Every environment is full of resources.
Caring, caretaking, and context.
Your Learning Journey
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Your Learning JourneyWhat was the learning process like for you? Was it strengths based?Was it asset enhancing? Was it empowering? Was it facilitative?
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