Define community casework.

 To promote successful change, the practitioner must give the client with a detailed definition of the planned kind of community work (Brager and Specht, 1973). The community practitioner must use abilities from all three areas of the social work profession to effectively execute any of the community participation models.

The community worker is special in that he or she juggles all three levels of the job on a regular basis.  A brief description of how each of the three components of the social work profession is employed by the community worker will help to elucidate and clarify the unique nature of the community worker.

Case work in the community is an inter-group process that seeks to help communities to understand and assess the existing problems and needs and to appropriate the available resources to bring about solutions that will strengthen the local community and enrich the life of its members. According to Zastrow (1978) It’s a method for motivating and assisting a local community to assess, plan, and coordinate its efforts to meet the community’s health, welfare, and recreation needs.

“The social work intervention process prepares the community to identify and address its common problems in a cooperative and skilled manner.”

It is primarily used to provide

(1) opportunities for the community or its sections to mobilise resources to address or prevent social problems; 

(2) means for meaningful interactions between different sections of the community; and

(3) welfare planning services to the community through the development of social welfare plans, influence on welfare policies, and mobilisation of adequate funds from the voluntary and public sectors.

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