Functioning of a Welfare Organization

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FUNCTIONING OF A WELFARE ORGANIZATION
Many professional social workers are associated with organizations that deal in
helping with people in doing professional courses, training people and helping them deal with
crisis. Many sociologists have pointed out the trend of social welfare organization is growing
rapidly all over the world. These organizations contribute to the well-being of the society.
They help people with their basic needs, from solving a community problem to teaching a
financially backwards person about any professional course. This report will deal with one
such welfare organization. The Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) is one
such welfare organization where social workers collectively work to achieve social justice,
welfare and well-being (www.aasw.asn.au, 2019). This report will focus on the workings of
American Association of Social Workers, the work that they do on a regular basis and this
report will also try to relate its work to social learning theory and social justice to regulate
how they work. The report will also talk about the way it uses the task centered social work
practice to achieve its goal as a welfare organization.
Formed in the year 1946 as a national association Australian Association of Social
Workers (AASW) represents the various social workers that operate inside Australia
(ahpa.com.au, 2019). The strength of the association is more than 10,000. The main role of
the organization is to take care of the interest and needs of the professional social workers
working in various areas of Australia and in doing a wide range of job. The AASW is a part
of the international community of the social workers, since it is the government body that
deals with social work in Australia (ahpa.com.au, 2019). The AASW is a member of the
International Federation of the Social Worker. The AASW has their own model of working
for the social workers and many universities in Australia follow the AASW standard of
working. During the 73 years that it has been operating the AASW has been regarded as one
of the prime organizations in the field of social work. They fight against social injustice and
promote social inclusion, human rights and they deal with all those problems that can affect
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the life of any living individual. They also promote social work as a profession; they make
sure that the social workers have a proper code of conduct or a proper guideline which will
help them perform their jobs efficiently. They monitor the ethical standard that the social
workers need to abide by. AASW also promotes the field of social work as an academic
discipline. The AASW has their own formal ‘Code of Ethic’, which is the main document
that that provides the guideline for the social worker to act while performing their duty.
The idea of social justice is of prime importance in not only Australia but the entire
world. Scholars believe that the research in the area of social justice and its relationship with
social work is inadequate. The facets of social justice are multi-dimensional in nature. It has
its own socio-political implications and there is an area of subjectivity in the concept of what
can be classified as fair and the things that can be classified as unjust (Taylor, Vreugdenhil &
Schneiders, 2019). The emphasis of social justice in social work practice is on the areas of
values and principles of social justice (greens.org.au, 2019). In this context it can be said that
the values and principles of social justice can be used to improve the quality of life of the
people that the social workers are aiming to help. The AASW organizes a Norma Parker
Addresses, which is a series of lectures that is delivered by the president of the AASW
(www.aasw.asn.au, 2019). This report will try to understand the ways in which social justice
is related to the field of social work. From the lecture the thing that stands out is the social
justice as a concept and the idea of social justice as a social work practice (Ratts et al.,2016) .
This addresses pointed out that social justice can be used as an idea to help the social workers
deal with the c)lients in terms of practices and strategies. Social justice as concept will also
help in educating the social workers which will further help in doing their job.
There many theories of social work which mainly help in guiding the social workers
in doing their job. In this report the social learning theory can be used in showing the
functioning of the AASW (Deaton, 2015). The social learning theory is a social work theory
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