UVSRPHP017 Community Planning as a Macro Method of Social Work

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2023
Extent and Intensity
13/13/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PaedDr. Miroslav Pilát, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PaedDr. Miroslav Pilát, Ph.D.
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: JUDr. Marie Sciskalová, Ph.D.
Timetable
Wed 14:45–15:30 C208
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
UVSRPHP017/A: Wed 15:35–16:20 C208, M. Pilát
Prerequisites
FAKULTA(FVP) && TYP_STUDIA(N) && FORMA(P)
The condition for obtaining credit is the successful completion of a written test.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course introduces to social and legislative bases of the new system of social services after 1989, ensuring their quality and the availability in the current conditions using the macromethod of community work - community planning of social services.The course is designed in chronological thematic blocks, from a brief insight into the development of social services in the Czech Republic until 2006 up to new approaches to identifying the needs of users and potential users of social services.Considerable attention is paid to the availability of social services, the needs of users and the various stages of community planning.Its final part focuses on a brief excursion into the problems of social service planning in the Slovak Republic.
Learning outcomes
Professional Knowledge:
Students acquire and demonstrate knowledge of basic issues of the legislative basis for social services in the Czech Republic and methods directed at achieving quality and availability in the area of provision of social services.
Professional Skills
Students are well versed in legislation governing the provision of social services in the Czech Republic, can implement the method of community planning as a tool to ensure local and type availability of social services.They can also navigate the issue of defining and implementing social services quality standards as one of the methods of ensuring the quality of social services, social services inspection, legislative anchoring of social services quality standards and creation of medium-term plans for the development of social services in the Czech Republic.
General Qualification
Students are able to virtually participate in the creation of medium-term plans of social services at local and regional levels and in the development and implementation of quality standards for individual social services providers.At the same time, the methods of the course will encourage the development of critical thinking, creativity and the students' ability to make decisions independently and responsibly.
Syllabus
  • 1. A brief preview of the development of social services in the Czech Republic in 2006 and the legislative anchoring.
  • 2. Forms of provision a typology of social services.Quality standards in social services.
  • 3. Community planning and typology of social services.Determining the network of social services.Community planning and determining the network of social services.
  • 4. Community and community work.Basic characteristics and definitions of community planning of social services.Selected models and approaches to community planning.
  • 5. Community planning from the perspective of Czech law.Stakeholders of social services community planningBasic principles of community planning of social services.
  • 6. Accessibility of social servicesThe needs of users of social services.Assessing the needs of users of social services.Participation in the community planning process.
  • 7. Phases and processes of community planning - preparatory phase.
  • 8. Phases and processes of community planning - analytical and descriptive phase.
  • 9. Phases and processes of community planning - planning phase, implementation phase.
  • 10. Evaluation of community planning of social services.Public participation in community planning.
  • 11. Users of social services as key actors in the community planning process.Involving users in the community planning process.Example of participation of users in decision-making processes in the field of financing of social services at the municipal level.
  • 12. New approaches to assessing the needs of users of social services.Focus groups.New assessment of needs.
Literature
    required literature
  • BRUEGGEMANN, G. William. The Praktice of Macro Social Work. Edition 4. Cengage Learning, 2013. ISBN-13 9780495602286.
  • ČÁMSKÝ, P., SEMBDNER, J., KRUTILOVÁ, D. Sociální služby v ČR v teorii a praxi. Praha: Portál, 2011. ISBN 978-80-262-0027-7. info
  • MATOUŠEK, O. a kol. Encyklopedie sociální práce. Praha: Portál, 2013. ISBN 978-80-262-0366-7. info
  • PILÁT, M. Komunitní plánování sociálních služeb v současné teorii a praxi. Praha: Portál, 2015. ISBN 978-80-262-0932-4. info
  • PILÁT, Miroslav. Komunitní plánování jako makro metoda sociální práce. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, Fakulta veřejných politik v Opavě, 2021. Elektronická studijní opora.
    recommended literature
  • JANÁK, Dušan and Miroslav PILÁT. Vývoj právních norem k sociální péči a sociálním službám v Československu a v České republice od roku 1956. In Dušan JANÁK ml. a kol. Mikropodnikání v sociálních službách. Ostrava-Opava, 2012, p. 13-64, 183 pp. ISBN 978-80-7248-766-0. info
  • KUBALČÍKOVÁ, Kateřina a KRCHŇAVÁ, Anna. Komunitní plánování jako prostor pro účast uživatelů na rozhodování: realita nebo iluze? O respektování principů jedné z metod sociální práce v praxi. Sociální práce/Sociálna práca. 2010, ročník 10, č. 3, s. 110 -
  • Sociální práce/sociálná práca, 2004, ročník 9, č. 3. ISNN: 1213-6204.
  • PILÁT, Miroslav. Metoda komunitního plánování jako nástroj k zajištění dostupnosti sociálních služeb prostřednictvím komunitní sociální práce. Speciální pedagogika. 2014, ročník 24, č. 2, s. 104-124. ISSN 121-2720.
  • ŠŤASTNÁ, Jaroslava. Když se řekne komunitní práce. Praha: Karolinum, 2016. ISBN 978-80-246-3356-5. info
    not specified
  • Zákon č. 108/2006 Sb., o sociálních službách, ve znění pozdějších předpisů.
  • Vyhláška č. 505/2006 Sb., kterou se provádějí některá ustanovení zákona o sociálních službách, ve znění pozdějších předpisů.
Teaching methods
Lectures,seminars.
Assessment methods
Elaboration of a term paper, compulsory attendance at 80 % of the seminars at least.The condition for admission to the exam is submission of a paper in the minimum extent of 7 standard pages on a topic that the student chooses from the lecture syllabus or from the seminar subject.Literature on which students will draw will be in the scope of a minimum of 3 items of basic and 1 item of recommended literature.The basic criterion for assessing the quality of the paper will be its ability to demonstrate the ability to work with scientific texts, with an emphasis on appropriate linking of individual authors’ propositions into a coherent logical framework and the ability to translate theoretical knowledge into practice.Students will submit their paper two weeks before the credit week at the latest so that the instructor has the opportunity to evaluate it and possibly return it for a rewrite, by e-mail.Consultations (personal, electronic) can be used by students to resolve ambiguities in their work on assignments.The paper is a condition for signing up for the exam.The course is concluded with an oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2024.
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