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Wrap-around services: Serving Holistically: Many FBOs find that a “wrap-around” service approach is critical in meeting the multiple needs of program participants. This article describes the characteristics of organizations that successfully adopt this approach.
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Being “User Friendly:” The Benefits of a Multi-Faith Staff: Some FBOs find that a diverse staff attracts more program participants and can make service delivery more effective. This article highlights steps FBOs serving religiously diverse neighborhoods might take to ensure that their programs address community needs sensitively.
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Belief Systems in Faith-based Human Service Programs: What makes FBOs different? FASTEN researchers from Baylor University tackle the question, based on their exploration of 15 faith-based service programs.
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When the Service Delivery System is a Congregation: For social workers, public administrators, and others desiring to collaborate with churches in social service programs, it is important to know what makes congregations distinct from faith-based nonprofit organizations – and what the implications of those differences are.
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Creating Communities of Support: The Work of Coalition-Building: Based on research of effective collaboration, here are six quick tips on building coalitions that last.
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Research Brief Volunteer Roles in Faith-based Organizations: This helpful article identifies eight lessons learned about volunteer roles in faith-based organizations and offers insights about the implications of these lessons for program administrators.
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Faith-Based Organizations as Safe Spaces: Creating a safe environment for program participants is crucial. Here are creative suggestions about how to do it.
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Recommended Books
Saving America: Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society: This book compiles and analyzes the most current studies on faith-based social service programs and addresses issues of voluntarism, care giving, and clients’ viewpoints.
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Recommended Links
The Roundtable on Religion & Social Welfare Policy: The Roundtable is run by the Rockefeller Institute and offers a nonpartisan assessment of the role of faith-based organizations in the social welfare system.
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The Finance Project: The Finance Project provides a variety of educational resources of interest to practitioners and public administrators working to improve the lives of low income families and children. It also incorporates all the resources of the (formerly independent) Welfare Information Network.
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Wrap-around services: Serving Holistically
The Roundtable on Religion & Social Welfare Policy
Faith-Based Organizations as Safe Spaces
Belief Systems in Faith-based Human Service Programs
Being “User Friendly:” The Benefits of a Multi-Faith Staff
 

 

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RAISE DISABILITY AWARENESS IN THE CHURCH AND COMMUNITY IN TANZAN

Submitted by Japhet Aloyce kalegeya (not verified) on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 05:04.

The Organization mission: - Is to provide needs to vulnerable groups and rise up the education level in the community by establishing reproductive activities in order to reduce poverty among the communities.

Disabled situation: - General situation persons living with disabilities are vulnerable group because they encounter a number of social economic, community participation, legal, religions and political obstacles, which deny them opportunity to access education, employment, information, health care, participating in Bible outreach and the likely.

People with disability and education: Education is one of the main opportunities for the people with disabilities to demand their rights. There were 34,661 pupils with disabilities in Tanzania (enrolled in primary school). Out of whom 19,998 were boys, remaining 14,663 girls?, but the number of enrolment of children with disabilities in primary school is reported to have decreased from said 34,661 in 2008, to 27,422 in 2009.

People with disability and Health Care: - The government promised to start bearing the medical costs for the people with albinism after the ratification of the International Covenant of people with disabilities. However, there was no notable progress in fulfilling the promise. Instead, people with albinism have continued to complain about inaccessibility of special health services for the. Also People with disabilities have sexual desires just like non-disabled. Yet awareness creation program on HIV/AIDS are not accessible to people with disabilities.

People with disabilities and economic: - The majority of people with disabilities are poor and their lives circumstances are barriers; although is included in the current national poverty reduction strategies. But their participation an income generation is minimal, generally, persons with disability have not been sufficiently sensitized to access and benefit from public funds allocated to special groups like the youth and women.

People with disabilities and minister to the spiritual and practical needs:- People living with disabilities have faced with the problem of lack of opportunities for participating in spiritual and practical needs through churches, because some of them are crippled and they are not walking to churches, others are deaf and dumb not listen, other are blindness etc, these situation cause them to be lack in the word of God and minister to the spiritual and practical

The Organization has decided to establish the programmes of raise disability awareness in the churches and community which will help them to participate in minister to the spiritual and practical needs. Like as the project of “Raise Disability Awareness in the Church and Community in Tanzania”.

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