The start-up of the Community Development Workers'
Initiative (CDWI) aims at formally beginning the process of
re-establishing community development practice within British
Columbia's Ministry of Social Services (MSS). This report's
goals are to document the MSS Community Development Workers1
(CDWs) perceptions of their practice, challenges, and
successes both outside of and within the MSS. These goals are
carried out within the context of organizational change
theories and models. This research was conducted
approximately one year after the start-up of the CDWI.
This is an explorative/descriptive study which garners
CDW input from questionnaires and face-to-face interviews.
These two measures were utilized in order to yield qualitative
data. Qualitative methods and Rothman's framework (three
modes of community organization) are employed to extrapolate
major themes.
The findings reveal that most CDW respondents report
their practice to reflect one or more of the three models
described in Rothman's framework. Underlining this trend, the
selection of community organizational strategies usually
appears to be driven by a process involving the community and
their identified needs and interests. Documentation and
discussion also include CDWI community work constructs, the
obstacles faced by the respondents, CDW's perceptions of MSS' s
needs and interests, and the sampled CDW's recommendations
surrounding organizational change through the use of a
community development approach. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/4386 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Lawrie, Richard Singleton |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 5613154 bytes, application/pdf |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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