Lead: For students majoring in social work, respect is not only an ideological cognition, but also a moral practice. In the process of service, social workers should not impose their own values on the clients, let alone criticize their words, deeds and values, and should not vent their negative emotions to the clients. Social workers can share their personal feelings and experiences related to the service content, as well as the opinions of social work professionals on related issues with their clients, and provide suggestions to try their best to solve the problems, but social workers shall not directly or indirectly force the clients to accept the opinions or suggestions put forward.
When it comes to social workers, people will immediately say: Isn't it just a worker in a community? Social worker? Really? Actually, social worker is short for? Social worker? , but it cannot be simply understood as a community worker. Social workers refer to professionals who follow the value criteria of social work and engage in social services by using professional methods of social work. At present, there are 3,263 social workers in our city, who hold the national professional level certificate of social workers. In social life, they use their professional knowledge and practical actions to help all kinds of difficult groups and people with special difficulties, such as conflict mediation, psychological counseling and behavior correction. , to help them get out of trouble and play a fundamental role in solving social problems, resolving social contradictions and promoting social harmony in social services, social welfare, social security and other fields. Today is International Social Worker's Day. Let's walk into some social workers in our city and see how they work.
Social worker Hu Qunze
Help residents with sudden car accidents plan their lives.
If the duty of doctors is to cure people's physical diseases, then the duty of social workers is to help those who encounter various difficulties and problems in social life. Social work, which developed from the initial charity action, has a distinctive feature of helping others from the beginning and is a noble cause full of love. However, social work has gone far beyond the scope of traditional activities to help the poor and the weak. Not only help people in trouble to solve their financial difficulties, but also help them build up confidence, provide life planning advice and help people in trouble? Give the horse a hand and let it ride? .
Two years ago, Hu Qunze, a social worker in Qingshuiwan Community, Kandun Street, Cixi City, successfully rescued a difficult family. He not only helped the family solve the material difficulties, but also helped the man find a job and let the family have a job? Hematopoiety? Have the ability to make the whole family full of vigor and vitality.
Mr. Ye's family lives in the affordable housing in Qingshuiwan Community and their home. Mr. Ye, who is in his forties, suffers from congenital myopia. He used to work in a textile enterprise in Hangzhou, and he was laid off and returned to live in Cixi a few years ago. Mr. Ye's wife, Ms. Chen, is mentally retarded and cannot go out to work. Her son is about to graduate from primary school. The whole family depends on Mr. Ye for odd jobs.
On August 20 12 12, Mr. Ye had a traffic accident on his way back to his hometown in Longshan Town, Cixi City, resulting in a fracture of his left foot. It will take at least six months to recover. This made a family with financial difficulties suddenly get into trouble. After the accident, Mr. Wang sighed and lost confidence in life. In particular, Mr. Ye's son is going to junior high school soon. Yucai Middle School, a school district school in Qingshuiwan Community, is a private school. The high tuition fees made Mr. Ye Can unaffordable, which made him even more depressed and pessimistic.
Hu Qunze held a seminar with several other social workers in Qingshuiwan community and worked out a plan to help Mr. Ye's family. Everyone thinks that to help Mr. Ye's family out of the predicament, we should not only improve their current economic situation as soon as possible, ensure their basic livelihood, and solve his son's tuition problem, but also use various resources to find a stable job for Mr. Ye after he recovers, so that he can have a source of income. Only in this way can Mr. Ye build up his confidence in life and get out of the shadow of the car accident.
Hu Qunze contacted the trade union and labor department of Mr. Ye's former work unit, which reflected the difficult situation of Mr. Ye's family and enabled Mr. Ye to obtain certain financial assistance from his former work unit.
Then, Hu Qunze explained Mr. Ye's family economic situation in detail to the traffic police who handled the traffic accident, hoping that the traffic police would explain the situation to the other side of the accident during mediation and strive for Mr. Yuzryha to get more compensation.
Finally, in the mediation, Mr. Ye agreed to give up the disability appraisal, and the other party to the accident agreed to compensate Mr. Ye for 30,000 yuan at a time after removing the medical expenses.
When the social worker learned that the chairman of Yucai Middle School lived in Repulse Bay Community, he went to the door to reflect the situation of Mr. Ye's family, which led Yucai Middle School to help Mr. Ye's son waive all tuition fees.
After Mr. Ye recovered, social workers contacted in many ways to help Mr. Ye find a job. On August 20 13, the director of the civil affairs office of Kandun Street in Cixi City helped Mr. Ye find a job in Sanyo Electronics Company, a welfare enterprise.
Now, Mr. Ye is handy at work, his income has increased, and he has joined the community volunteer service team. My son has excellent grades and good health, and the family lives a happy life.
Beilun Bate community social worker
Set up a group to help a group of children get out of trouble.
An American scholar wrote in The New York Times's editorial: A new profession has matured and is maturing before our eyes, and that is social work. People used to imagine social work as an activity to help the poor with baskets in hand. Nowadays, social work is a profession that uses scientific methods and artistic means to solve various social problems.
Social work is very professional, which requires not only one-on-one help, but also the establishment of groups to help a group in group activities. In Bate Community, Daqi Street, Beilun District, group work method is used to help children in trouble.
Bart community has a permanent population of 1 1000, which is a typical mixed community of rural and residential areas. There are many dangerous houses, many old communities without property, and many shanty towns with wooden structures. , personnel structure? Are there many disabled people, the elderly, low-income households and reeducation-through-labor personnel? .
Social workers in this community found that there are some children in distress in the community, and their parents can't fully perform their responsibilities of raising and guardianship. It mainly includes: parents are severely disabled or suffering from major diseases and cannot fulfill their guardianship obligations; After the parents divorce, it is determined that the parent who has the obligation to support is suffering from serious illness or death and cannot perform the obligation of guardianship; Parents are unable to fulfill their maintenance obligations during their imprisonment.
Social workers in this community have been established. Group work? The principle of service.
2065438+In July 2005, community workers were established? Pro-youth home team? The working group, with this group as the carrier, began to help children in difficulty.
Community workers organized a series of activities to strengthen the relationship among community workers, volunteers, children in distress and their parents. Happy hour family reunion, Wu Yun Mountain Villa parent-child mountaineering competition, visit the port museum and hold it? Childlike paradise, flying dreams? A large-scale outdoor painting competition to help you realize your wish? Group activities, etc.
In order to let the parents of children in distress know their role orientation, master their children's needs and improve the harmony among family members, social workers use it? Pro-green home? As a platform, we carry out group activities around parenting education, emotional communication and the concept of the rule of law, hire experts such as psychological coaches and tutors, hold many parent-child communication salons, and teach parents and children communication skills.
In order to improve the living and learning conditions of children in distress, pro-green homes? Members contact and coordinate schools and teachers to help poor children improve their academic performance; Recruit children in distress to participate in community holiday schools, and hire psychology graduate students to give psychological counseling to some children with strong inferiority complex, low self-evaluation and emotional disorder, so as to make children in distress grow up healthily.
After a series of collective activities, community workers and volunteers began to provide individual counseling for the clients, which improved the living conditions and mental outlook of the children in distress.
There are two 5-year-old twins in the community. Their mother jumped from a building because of postpartum depression. She is physically and mentally disabled, staying in bed all the year round and unable to take care of herself. After community workers intervened in the twin families, they found that the twin fathers had little time to spend with their children in order to earn money to support their families. So the two children are introverted and seldom talk to others. As soon as they saw the stranger, they hid behind their father.
After many contacts with the twins and their parents, community workers learned that the two children were almost thrown from the hospital building because of their mother's illness and found the root of their timidity.
Community workers match the bridge, and caring people in the community pair up to help the twins and take care of them in life and study.
Gradually, the twins and their father appear more and more in various activities in the community. The two children became actors at community gatherings, volunteers at charity bazaars and activists at community holiday schools. Their personalities are becoming more and more cheerful and their academic performance is getting better and better. Their father's mental outlook has changed greatly, and he often wears a smile on his face.
Senior social worker Chen
Promote the government to introduce policies to help vulnerable groups.
When social workers help the disadvantaged groups, they will find some social problems that need to be solved by the government through introducing or perfecting policies. They can make suggestions to the relevant government departments, and strive for the government to introduce policies that take the overall situation into account and benefit the long-term and improve the policy system.
Chen is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Municipal Charity Federation and a senior social worker. As early as 2008, she obtained the certificate of social worker and became the first batch of social workers in our city. She has repeatedly promoted the formulation of relevant government policies.
? There are too many stories in difficult families, and the difficult reality distorts many people's psychology and cannot return to normal real life. For these families, we should not only help them materially, but also help them spiritually, so that they can build up confidence, know themselves and return to normal life. ? Since 1998, Chen has been working in Ningbo Charity Federation, which has also given her a deeper understanding of social work. It is this job that enables her to take social work courses in her spare time and become a social worker who helps some vulnerable groups.
Autism is a mental development disorder with unknown etiology and high disability rate. At present, there is no specific medicine for treating autism in the world. The only way is lifelong rehabilitation education, through which patients' abilities can be improved. So many families are desperate because they have an autistic child.
201212 In February, under the organization and coordination of Chen, Ningbo Xingbao Autism Family Support Center was established in our city, with Chen Ren as the chairman and director.
In the process of helping families with autism, Chen Faxian has solved many social problems that are difficult to solve through non-governmental forces. She found that the rehabilitation of autistic children needs one-on-one guidance from teachers, so the cost is high. However, the rehabilitation allowance of the Disabled Persons' Federation is only 800 yuan per person per month, which is far from enough, so she reflected this problem to the Municipal Disabled Persons' Federation. Through multi-party coordination, the Municipal Disabled Persons' Federation raised the rehabilitation expenses of autistic children from 800 yuan to 2,000 yuan per person per month.
In Chen Faxian, among many county (city) government-funded venture capital projects, there is no project to improve the ability of autistic children. She made suggestions to relevant government departments, so that many counties (cities) in our city listed the autism children promotion project as a public venture capital project, and some counties (cities) further listed the autism children promotion project as a government procurement project.
Last year, Chen's investigation found that: on the one hand, some autistic children who received education in special education institutions after 14 years old can no longer receive government health education subsidies, and special education institutions will no longer accept them because of the quota problem; On the other hand, some autistic children studying in regular primary schools, 14 years old, have graduated from primary schools and can no longer attend junior high schools. In this way, 14 years old has become a watershed for autistic children, and most of them can only go home. Some abilities painstakingly cultivated in the past will soon degenerate. She suggested setting up an art class for autistic children in Ningbo Special Education School. In terms of teaching content, we can tend to choose music, art and other artistic content that autistic children prefer as the starting point of education, and combine the content of autism special education with music therapy, life skills training and vocational skills training. These suggestions have also attracted the attention of relevant departments and are being gradually solved.
Last year, Chen took the working team of Ningbo Xingbao Autism Family Support Center and actively participated in the government-organized? Public welfare venture capital? Autism research, etc. Parents' training, theme publicity activities and various parents' team counseling were held hundreds of times throughout the year, and activities such as Xingbao volunteer pairing, school-age Xingbao helping students and older Xingbao helping workers were carried out in a targeted manner, with a total service of more than 2,000 people (times).
In 20 14, Chen was selected by Zhejiang social workers association and became the first batch of social work supervisors in Zhejiang province. In addition to providing training and counseling for various social workers in Ningbo, he insisted on regular supervision of social workers in Beilun and Haishu districts while doing his job well.
Chen's experience tells us that the work unit of social workers is not necessarily in the community, but also in administrative organs, institutions and various social organizations and people's organizations. In the social governance under the new normal, it is hoped that more public affairs departments, social organizations and institutions will participate in it, and multiple subjects will work together to promote it, so as to better integrate social resources, coordinate social relations, prevent and solve social problems, and jointly promote the harmonious development of society.
Many measures in our city
Cultivate social work talents
3,263 professional social workers have become a new force in social governance.
(Reporter Yang Jingya correspondent Deng Yongshan) The reporter learned from the Civil Affairs Bureau yesterday that in recent years, our city has initially cultivated a professional social work talent team with both theoretical level and practical ability by improving the policy system, strengthening talent education and training, and promoting social work practice. At present, there are 3,263 social work professionals in our city who hold the national professional level certificate of social workers, including social workers 1.094 and assistant social workers 2 1.69, ranking second in the province. They help people in difficulties to change the status quo and get out of trouble in various areas of our city.
In recent years, the city has actively mobilized social workers in social welfare, social assistance, disaster reduction and relief, community building, charity, rehabilitation of the disabled, marriage and family, youth affairs, drug rehabilitation, judicial correction and other social work-related fields to take the national professional level examination for social workers, and the number of references has increased year by year. In 20 15, the number of new candidates in the city was 17 15, which was 56.5% higher than that in 20 14. 659 people passed the exam, a year-on-year increase of 40.5%.
Obtaining the national professional level certificate of social workers does not mean that you can become a qualified professional social worker, but you also need to receive a series of professional knowledge training and practical exercise. To this end, the city conducts annual training to improve the professional ability of social workers. In just 20 15 years, our city has organized and implemented three large-scale trainings or projects, namely, continuing education demonstration training for social work professionals, social work supervision service demonstration project and community social work funding project. Among them, continuing education demonstration training provides theoretical learning opportunities for front-line professional social workers and social work leaders from all localities and relevant departments; The demonstration project of social work supervision service provides high-level theoretical and practical training for outstanding social work professionals in various fields in our city, and reserves a number of high-end social work talents; There are 25 community social work funding projects, which provide financial support for private social work institutions and community social studios in our city to carry out social work practice and provide practical training opportunities for professional social workers. According to statistics, in 20 15, more than 2,000 social work professionals in the city participated in various trainings.
In order to make professional social workers more widely used, the city has continuously launched social work posts in the fields of social pension, child assistance, mental rehabilitation, youth affairs, etc., openly recruiting professional social workers for the society, and developed more than 1 10 full-time posts focusing on social assistance in all towns (streets) of the city. At the same time, we have social work professionals, focusing on urban and rural communities. At present, at the same time, our city has actively guided and focused on cultivating social organizations such as charity, social welfare and social services, promoted the development of social organizations and set up social work professional posts to attract social work professionals. The vast number of professional social workers in different fields and positions have responded to the diverse service needs of the masses by using professional knowledge and through professional methods such as individual cases and groups, solved some social problems and promoted social harmony and stability.
In order to make professional social workers devote themselves to social work, our city actively implements the treatment of social work professionals, and makes it clear that for those who have obtained the qualifications of assistant social workers and social workers, the employer may appoint junior and intermediate professional and technical positions according to the post setting. Those who work in public institutions can enjoy the salary of the same technical position. In the community? Professional and technical qualifications are linked to posts, posts are linked to wages, and treatment is linked to performance? Establish a guarantee system for the treatment of community social work talents, and also establish a system of professional qualification allowance for community social work. At present, the standard is: social workers subsidize 200 yuan every month, and assistant social workers subsidize 100 yuan every month. In the next step, our city will greatly raise the standard of vocational qualification allowance. In addition, the city has also increased the recognition and encouragement of social work talents. Last year, the municipal party Committee and municipal government will? Outstanding social work talent award? Unified into the highest talent award in Ningbo? Yong Cheng talents? At present, the first batch of eight social workers have won awards.
It is reported that the city will further promote the construction of social work professionals and social work practice, and fully promote the deepening of social work in our city in the construction of social work demonstration bases, the education and training of professional talents, the cultivation of private social work institutions, and the government's purchase of social work services. In 20 16, the city will also hold an advanced seminar on social work to popularize social work knowledge to leaders in charge of social work-related fields, further broaden the field of social work and expand their influence.
How to become a social worker
After professional education or training in social work, you can become a social worker by obtaining social work professional qualifications and registering in a specific institution. In China, a qualified social worker needs to take the national professional level examination for social workers held every year, obtain the qualification of social worker or assistant social worker, register in the civil affairs department, receive a series of professional knowledge training and practical training, and have certain professional work ability.
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