Schema for analyzing social welfare programs
University of the West Indies
Soci 2023- Social Policy and Administration I
Unit 3- A framework for understanding social welfare policy
Discussion Question
Ralph Dolgoff and Ronald Feldstein proposed a schema for examining Welfare programs in their text, Understanding Social Welfare: A search for social justice. This schema gives three basic areas under which these programs could be examined. These areas are that of structural components, alternative program characteristics and ways to evaluate the program. All of the aforementioned areas will be examined in this paper, in relation to a local Social Welfare program - The Targeted Conditional Cash Transfer Programme.
Structural Components Dolgoff and Feldstein highlight five (5) key structural characteristics that are needed for examination of a social welfare programme to occur. The key characteristics that will be systematically developed are problems addressed, benefits, eligibility, financing and administration.
Social welfare programs are intended to meet certain needs, deal with specific problems, or enhance life. When seeking to identify the first structural characteristic of any social welfare program one must ask the question, “What are the needs or problems being addressed, and what are the goals of the program?” (Dolgoff & Feldstein, 2009). The Targeted Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (TCCTP) is a food assistance and developmental programme, which enables families in need to buy nutritionally sound basic food items. Its goal is to enhance health and dignity of these households and reduce the incidence of poverty. However by extension, the TCCTP aims to enable participants with skills to become employed and graduate the programme.
In addition, according to Dolgoff and Feldstein, when examining a social welfare programme an individual should clearly see what the benefits of it are and what form they take . Basically one tries to answer the question of “what does the program produce”? In
Soci 2023- Social Policy and Administration I
Unit 3- A framework for understanding social welfare policy
Discussion Question
Ralph Dolgoff and Ronald Feldstein proposed a schema for examining Welfare programs in their text, Understanding Social Welfare: A search for social justice. This schema gives three basic areas under which these programs could be examined. These areas are that of structural components, alternative program characteristics and ways to evaluate the program. All of the aforementioned areas will be examined in this paper, in relation to a local Social Welfare program - The Targeted Conditional Cash Transfer Programme.
Structural Components Dolgoff and Feldstein highlight five (5) key structural characteristics that are needed for examination of a social welfare programme to occur. The key characteristics that will be systematically developed are problems addressed, benefits, eligibility, financing and administration.
Social welfare programs are intended to meet certain needs, deal with specific problems, or enhance life. When seeking to identify the first structural characteristic of any social welfare program one must ask the question, “What are the needs or problems being addressed, and what are the goals of the program?” (Dolgoff & Feldstein, 2009). The Targeted Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (TCCTP) is a food assistance and developmental programme, which enables families in need to buy nutritionally sound basic food items. Its goal is to enhance health and dignity of these households and reduce the incidence of poverty. However by extension, the TCCTP aims to enable participants with skills to become employed and graduate the programme.
In addition, according to Dolgoff and Feldstein, when examining a social welfare programme an individual should clearly see what the benefits of it are and what form they take . Basically one tries to answer the question of “what does the program produce”? In
Bibliography: Dolgoff, Ralph and Donald Feldstein. (2009). Understanding Social Welfare: A Search For Social Justice. Pearson Education Inc Targeted Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (TCCTP). (2008). Operational Guidelines for Becoming a recipient for the TTCard.TCCTP. http://www.cso.gov.tt/statistics/key-indicators http://hdrstats.undp.org/images/explanations/TTO.pdf