SOCIAL-WORK, SOCIAL-DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY WELFARE CENTERS IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Community welfare centers are among the most dynamic social institutio ns worldwide. Through their commitment to locality-based intervention, they keep people at the center of development. In doing so, they prov ide an institutional link between governments, people and various coal itions of private stakeholders that make up the communities in which t hey are located. Community centers also engage in a broad range of soc ial change activities, including advocacy with and on behalf of the co mmunity for reform of the underlying social political and economic con ditions that undermine human dignity. Throughout the world, social wor kers serve as the primary professional leaders of a highly effective c ommunity center movement.