Community Work Literature Review

Literature review and background
What is known and unknown about community work models?
Models guide social workers in achieving their community work missions of changing and serving groups in communities (Weil, 1996). Working models based on practical experiences are considered intermediaries to theoretical generalization (Thompson, 1996). In fact, different models involve different practical variables, such as objectives, methods, or value assumptions (Rothman, 1968). Models may be applied to various kinds of communities and professional tasks by community workers (Gamble and Weil, 2010).
Several important classical community work models from Western societies have been summarized in the last four decades. Rothman (1968), later amended by

There are three national plans and no a legislation in community-level. The Community Development Plan (CDP), advocated by the United Nations, has been in execution since 1968. After World War II, especially in rural areas, community infrastructure construction was the main content of the CDP. The residents were organized into Community Development Associations (CDAs) to perform rebuilding work planned by the government. The government dispatched staff for guiding organized community residents who were laboring to meet policy requirements (Chen and Ku, 2017). Administrative guidance was the main work for the staff of the CDP. Even if the community infrastructure constructed in the 1980s, the CDAs exist still so far. There were 7,839 CDAs under the guidance of 80 administrative staff in 2016, and some CDAs have set and run their Community Care Centers (CCC) since

In the experience of resilience for Earthquake 921, the model of rescue and service for disaster had formed. In depth, the model organized by several stages of rescue, resettlement, comfort, relocation of the village, life rehabilitation (Chen and Wang, 2010). The model was applied to the mission of reconstruction for Morakot Typhoon. Social workers were dispatch for relief and counseling since the resettlement stage. The community work was practiced for encouraging the victims to participate decision-making which related them and establish an autonomous order. In these experiences, the missions of social workers in disaster service were concluded (Chou, 2003; Lin,