"Social welfare is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter."
Exploring current social policies and programs designed to address social welfare concerns and improve social functioning.
History of Social Welfare: Understanding the evolution of social welfare policies and services in the United States, including the political and economic factors that have influenced it.
Social Policy: Learning how social policies are developed and how they affect vulnerable populations in society.
Social Work Practice: Understanding social work practice principles, including assessment, intervention, and evaluation, as well as the importance of cultural competence in service delivery.
Service Delivery Systems: Understanding the different systems that provide social welfare services, such as healthcare, education, housing, and income support.
Nonprofit Management: Understanding the principles of nonprofit management, including fundraising, leadership, and strategic planning.
Global Social Welfare Policy: Understanding social welfare policies and services on a global scale, including the United Nations' sustainable development goals.
Social Justice: Learning about the concept of social justice and its importance in social welfare policy and service delivery.
Diversity and Inclusion: Understanding the importance of diversity and inclusion in social welfare policies and services, as well as in the workplace.
Ethics and Legal Issues: Understanding ethical and legal issues in social welfare policies and services, including confidentiality, informed consent, and legal mandates.
Macro Social Work: Learning about community organizing, policy advocacy, and social change efforts on a larger scale, as well as how it relates to social welfare policies and services.
Cash assistance: This type of social welfare program provides individuals or families with financial assistance, often through programs such as TANF or Supplemental Security Income.
Food assistance: This involves programs such as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), which provides food stamps to low-income individuals and families.
Housing assistance: Social welfare policy and services in housing assistance often include rental assistance, housing vouchers, and subsidized housing for low-income households.
Healthcare assistance: This type of policy and service provides assistance with healthcare costs through Medicaid programs, Medicare for the elderly and disabled, or private health insurance subsidies.
Education assistance: Social welfare policy and services in education assistance programs provide students with access to federal student loans, grants, and scholarships, in addition to programs such as Head Start or early childhood development programs.
Child welfare assistance: Social welfare policy and services in child welfare assistance programs provide programs that work to prevent child abuse and neglect, while also offering adoption services and foster care for children in need of a safe and nurturing environment.
Substance abuse and mental health assistance: Social welfare policy and services in substance abuse and mental health assistance provide individuals with access to treatments and therapies to help them overcome addiction, psychiatric disorders, or other mental health conditions.
Transportation assistance: Programs such as public transportation subsidies or reduced fares for low-income individuals to improve access to work or other essential activities are examples of social welfare policy and services in transportation assistance.
Job training and employment services: Social welfare policy and services in job training and employment services provide low-income and unemployed individuals with access to job training programs, employment counseling, and job search assistance to locate gainful employment or career advancement opportunities.
Family and community support services: Programs such as Community Action Agency, WIC, and Childcare Assistance programs provide social welfare policy and services in support services for families, including parenting education and early childhood development opportunities, among other wrap-around services.
"Social security may either be synonymous with welfare, or refer specifically to social insurance programs which provide support only to those who have previously contributed, as opposed to social assistance programs which provide support on the basis of need alone."
"The International Labour Organization defines social security as covering support for those in old age, support for the maintenance of children, medical treatment, parental and sick leave, unemployment and disability benefits, and support for sufferers of occupational injury."
"Welfare may also encompass efforts to provide a basic level of well-being through subsidized social services such as healthcare, education, infrastructure, vocational training, and public housing."
"Some historians view systems of codified almsgiving, like the zakat policy of the seventh century Rashidun caliph Umar, as early examples of universal government welfare."
"The first welfare state was Imperial Germany (1871–1918), where the Bismarck government introduced social security in 1889."
"The United Kingdom introduced social security around 1913, and adopted the welfare state with the National Insurance Act 1946, during the Attlee government (1945–51)."
"In the countries of western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, social welfare is mainly provided by the government out of the national tax revenues, and to a lesser extent by non-government organizations (NGOs), and charities (social and religious)."
"A right to social security and an adequate standard of living is asserted in Articles 22 and 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
"Support for those in old age, support for the maintenance of children, medical treatment, parental and sick leave, unemployment and disability benefits, and support for sufferers of occupational injury."
"In a welfare state, the state assumes responsibility for the health, education, infrastructure, and welfare of society, providing a range of social services such as those described."
"Social assistance programs provide support on the basis of need alone, as opposed to social insurance programs which provide support only to those who have previously contributed."
"Efforts to provide a basic level of well-being through subsidized social services such as healthcare, education, infrastructure, vocational training, and public housing."
"The Bismarck government introduced social security in 1889."
"The United Kingdom introduced social security around 1913."
"Social welfare is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter."
"Social welfare is mainly provided by the government out of the national tax revenues, and to a lesser extent by non-government organizations and charities."
"Welfare may also encompass efforts to provide a basic level of well-being through subsidized social services such as healthcare, education, infrastructure, vocational training, and public housing."
"Social assistance programs provide support on the basis of need alone."
"Social security may either be synonymous with welfare or refer specifically to social insurance programs."