Write an essay to compare the different methods and processes of identifying community issues and community intervention strategies, highlighting the implications on Indigenous community work practice.

need to write an essay of 2500 words 

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The recommended readings for this module are:

Hardcastle, D, Powers, PR & Wenocour, S 1997, Community practice: Theories and skills for social workers, Oxford University Press: New York pp. 105 – 107.

Kenny, S 2011, Developing communities for the future, Cengage Learning: Melbourne, Chapters 3 & 7.

Long, M & Sephton, R 2011,

“Rethinking the “Best Interests”

of the Child: Voices from Aboriginal Child and Family Welfare Practitioners”, Australian Social Work, vol. 64 (1) pp. 96-112.

Mendes, P & Binns, F 2013,

“The integration of community development values, skills and strategies within rural social work practice in Victoria, Australia”

, Community Development Journal, vol. 48 (4) pp. 605 – 622.

Wright, M & Kickett-Tucker, C 2016,

‘Djinangingy kartdijin: Seeing and understanding our ways of working

‘ in C Kikett-Tucker, D Bessarab, J Coffin & M Wright (ed) Mia Mia Aboriginal community development: Fostering cultural security, pp. 153 – 168, Cambridge University Press.

Yunupingu, G (ed.) 1997, Our land is our life: Land rights – past, present and future, University of Queensland Press: St. Lucia.

Ah Chin, W 2006,

“From strategy to reality: a model for community engagement”

, Public Administration Today, No. 9, October / December 2006 pp 21-30.

Bennett, B, Zubrzycki, J & Bacon, V 2011,

“What Do We Know? The Experiences of Social Workers Working Alongside Aboriginal People”

, Australian Social Work, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 20-37. 

Boffa JD, Bell AI, Davies TE, Paterson J & Cooper DE 2007, “The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory: engaging with the intervention to improve primary health care”, Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 187, Issue 11-12, pp. 617-8.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01443.x?sid=nlm%3Apubmed

 

Campbell, D & Hunt, JE 2013,

“Achieving broader benefits from Indigenous land use agreements: Community development in Central Australia”

, Community Development Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 197-214.

Chaskin, RJ, Brown, P, Venkatesh, S & Vidal, A 2001, Building community capacity, pp. 143 – 157, Walter de Gruyter Inc.

Gray, S 2020, The Northern Territory Intervention: An Evaluation, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University.

https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/2106156/NT-Intervention-Evaluation-Report-2020

Hunt, J 2013

‘Engaging with Indigenous Australia – exploring the conditions for effective relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities’

Australian Institute of Family Studies, Issues paper no. 5.

Ife, J 2002, Community development: Community-based alternatives in an age of globalisation, pp. 102 – 140, Pearson Education.

Larkin, S 2011,

“Indigenous Perspectives: Enriching Scholarship and Practice”

, Australian Social Work, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 2-5.

McArdle, J 1999, Community development in the market economy, pp.13 – 24; 59 – 74.

Yunupingu, G (ed.) 1997, Our land is our life: Land rights – past, present and future, University of Queensland Press.

Denscombe, M 2014,

The good research guide

, (5th ed.) Open University Press: Maidenhead. (eBook)

Hardcastle, D, Powers, PR & Wenocour, S 1997, Community practice: Theories and skills for social workers, Oxford University Press: New York pp. 176 – 182.

Hawtin, M, Hughes, G & Percy-Smith, J 1999, Community Profiling: Auditing social needs, Open University Press: Buckingham pp. 69 – 119.

Available at CDU Casuarina and Batchelor Libraries

Homan, MS 2004, Promoting community change: Making it happen in the real world, Brooks/Coles Publishing Company: California pp. 135 – 150.
Available at CDU Casuarina and Batchelor Libraries

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 1997,

Bringing them home: Report of the national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families

, Commonwealth of Australia: Canberra.

Tropman, J, Erlich, J & Rothman, J 1995,  Tactics and techniques of community intervention, F.E. Publishers Inc.: Illinois – pp. 66 – 73.

Twelvetrees, A 2008, Community Work, (4th Ed.) McMillan: Basingstoke pp. 98 – 138

Wadsworth, Y 1997,

Do it yourself social research

, (2nd Ed.) Allen and Unwin: Sydney pp. 35 – 60. [

ebook

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Yunupingu, G (Ed.) 1997, Our land is our life: Land rights – past, present and future, University of Queensland Press: St. Lucia.

Different methods and processes of identifying community issues, community intervention strategies, highlighting the implications on Indigenous community work practice.

Table of Contents
Community issues 1

Fatal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder(FASD)

1
Lack of family planning 1
Health 1

Poverty

1

Domestic violence

1

Lack of employment

1

Education

1
Housing 1
Clash of cultures 1
Marijuana abuse 1

Food security

1
Gambling 1
Crime rates 1
Methods and Processes 1

Community intervention Strategies

2

implications on Indigenous community work practice

2

Reference:

2

Community issues

Currently in many community people are suffering with lack of opportunities due to the social problems they face in the community which is very unfortunate. Those social issues are identified below:

Fatal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder(FASD)

A widely common neurodevelopmental condition associated with prenatal alcohol exposure is foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).

Lack of family planning

Health

Poverty
Domestic violence
Lack of employment
Education

Housing

Clash of cultures

Marijuana abuse

Food security

Gambling

Crime rates

Methods and Processes

· Specialists to deliver intensive and multidisciplinary assessments.

· Integrating cultural protocols

· Implementation of the science theories called ‘knowledge-To-Action’ and training materials that up-skill remote practitioners with varying level of expertise.

· Experience-Based Co-Designed culturally sensitive and tiered neurodevelopmental assessment process to identify FASD

· RE-AIM as a evaluating tool to weigh the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and maintenance of the assessment and training process.

This innovative assessment process can be shared between primary and tertiary health care settings, improving access to services for children and families.

Community intervention Strategies
implications on Indigenous community work practice
Reference: