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  2. Role model - Wikipedia

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    The term role model is credited to sociologist Robert K. Merton, [2] [3] who hypothesized that individuals compare themselves with reference groups of people who occupy the social role to which the individual aspires, [4] an example of which is the way young fans may idolize and imitate professional athletes or entertainment artists.

  3. ‘A blessing in my life:’ 5000 Role Models program celebrates ...

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    To be eligible, students must have been involved with 5000 Role Models initiative since ninth grade, taken the ACT or SAT, and earned a 3.5 GPA as well as 25 hours of community service. READ MORE ...

  4. Community development - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations defines community development as "a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems." [1] It is a broad concept, applied to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens, and professionals to improve various aspects of communities, typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local ...

  5. Civic engagement - Wikipedia

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    Civic engagement can take many forms—from individual volunteerism, community engagement efforts, organizational involvement and government work such as electoral participation. These engagements may include directly addressing a problem through personal work, community based, or work through the institutions of representative democracy. [4]

  6. Social action model - Wikipedia

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    The social action model is a key to sociopolitical empowerment for work with oppressed groups, communities, and organizations. [1] [2] The model strives to reallocate sociopolitical power so that disenfranchised citizens can access the opportunities and resources of society and, in turn, find meaningful ways to contribute to society as valued ...

  7. Community organization - Wikipedia

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    Community organization is differentiated from conflict-oriented community organizing, which focuses on short-term change through appeals to authority (i.e., pressuring established power structures for desired change), by focusing on long-term and short-term change through direct action and the organizing of community (i.e., the creation of alternative systems outside of established power ...

  8. Community practice - Wikipedia

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    Community practice also known as mezzo social work is a branch of social work that focuses on larger social systems and social change, and is tied to the history of social work. [1] The field of community practice social work encompasses community organizing and community organization, community building, social planning, human service ...

  9. Personal practice model (social work) - Wikipedia

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    A Personal practice model (PPM) is a social work tool for understanding and linking theories to each other and to the practical tasks of social work. Mullen [ 1 ] describes the PPM as “the art and science of social work”, or more prosaically, “an explicit conceptual scheme that expresses a worker's view of practice”.