Building Community Networks in Israel: Theory, Planning and Implementation

Publication Date: June 1983

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Ram A. Cna'an

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Social Services; Community Development; Government Agencies

Type: Report

Coverage: Israel

Abstract:

This paper describes and analyzes an Israeli governmental experience in restructuring its social services. It has long been claimed that the social workers in the local welfare bureaus are detached and alienated from their target populations. One of the programs developed as a counteraction had as an objective that social workers become an integral part of the social network of the neighborhood in which they are employed. This paper will examine the theory, planning and implementation processes of this program in regard to the social workers' role in the community's social networks.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 59:4.