sing the community profile, provide a clear understanding on what actions might be useful to address any identified problems the community might be experiencing.

Research for Social Work Practice

Weight: 40%

Length: 1,500 words

Curriculum Mode: Report

Social workers are in the forefront of advising national governments, local governments and service delivery agencies in community and individuals needs through sound evidence. As a social worker, you are required to develop a community profile for a selected community. Using the community profile, provide a clear understanding on what actions might be useful to address any identified problems the community might be experiencing. In addition, write a brief reflection on how you developed the community profile (method) and reference all sources of information (literature) used.

There is no recommended style or format for writing this community profile. However, you are encouraged to be creative in how you structure and present the salient components of a community profile. Ensure to capture information on the demography, cultural, social, economic and political aspects of the community of interest. Also, ensure that the community profile is tailored to facilitate decision making for a social work-related intervention.

While we encourage creativity in structuring and presenting your profile, you may consider the following approach:

1. Introduction

a. Identification of a community of interest

b. a statement of why the need to undertake a community profile on the identified community

2. Presentation of the community profile

1. include information as pertains to your identified community (the following are examples of what you might include. The list is not exhaustive)

b.

a. Demographic information

b. History and cultural values (if applicable)

c. Leadership and governance structure

d. Community resources (assets, services, opportunities)

e. Community needs (Prioritized needs)

f. Policy/practice recommendations – What actions might be useful to address the identified needs?

3. A reflection of how you conducted the profile including methods used and sources of data, analysis, challenges and opportunities. (This can be written in the first person)

4. References (Harvard style recommended)