Successful interventions have these features:
1. Make resources available, when needed, to prevent client deterioration;
2. Withhold support when not needed or when support can be had elsewhere;
3. Assess resource need in every encounter. Stability is a core component of functioning;
4. Observe, start small, give only what is needed.
5. Be especially grateful to have participated in your client's progress
A good case history enables a clear focus for all interventions, especially financial interventions, and should include:
1. What the money will be used for.
2. Where else can the money come from?
3. What will be accomplished?
People lead healthier lives when connected to others. NASW defines its mission as enhancing "the individual wellbeing in a social context." At the macro level social workers mobilize people to use the inherent power of community to better their lives. In group work we form a community for mutual aid. And, at the micro level we are often the beginning of community for clients, where skill training in interpersonal relationship is practiced.
CGC gives clinicians the legal and ethical ability to resolve financial crises in a client's life.
Social Work has always focused on poverty in its interventions; Carefulgiving offers clinicians a new paradigm for financial interventions.
Clinicians are essential in the alleviation of intergenerational poverty.
Submitted by rjmarek on Sun, 07/21/2024 - 10:24
The two most important treatment factors in CGC:
1. Not becoming part of the client's income stream.
2. Having the client in a therapeutic, ongoing, relationship, if the client misses appointments that affect the relationship, the therapeutic relationship has been broken and a new time line will need to be established.
Submitted by rjmarek on Sat, 03/02/2024 - 07:45
Good Case History: Long term client, good emotional stability, physical impairments to working, married, disability benefits & welfare.
Problem: financial strains: indicated by food shortages, car troubles, housing costs.
Personal solutions to finances: borrowed money from relatives, spouse underemployed at intersection of losing benefits if the spouse worked more hours but can't find job that would bring the family out of the poverty trap.
Submitted by rjmarek on Mon, 11/20/2023 - 06:15
Some financial techniques that promote positive financial attitudes:
Submitted by rjmarek on Sat, 10/28/2023 - 02:53
The Twelve Rules for Clinicians who use CarefulGiving Money in an intervention are:
1. CarefulGiving Money is for interventions with their clients.
2. CGMoney cannot be used for the benefit of clinicians in any way, directly or indirectly, e.g., to pay for MH treatment.
3. CGMoney cannot be used for political purposes in any manner.
4. CGMoney is used for individuals and families, not for groups of any kind, (e.g., CGMoney cannot be used for churches etc.)
Submitted by rjmarek on Sat, 06/10/2023 - 07:45
Capitalism is pure selfishnes, taking care of its own. It succeeds because of the energy and clarity it limitlessly has at its disposal. Socialism is high minded but goes against the biology of humankind.
In order for capitalism to interact with the society it has created, it must find means to not destroy the parts which lie outside its field of action. Philanthropy grew with prosperity, the age of christianity with the reign of the church offered care and comfort to strangers - all god's creatures.
Submitted by rjmarek on Mon, 10/10/2022 - 09:08
Introduction
A wise man once said, "The poor you will always have with you" (NIV, Mat. 26:11). A residual cohort of extreme poverty does appear intractable across time and location. This paper discusses the roots of poverty in the writings of three classical sociologists.
But isn't poverty declining globally?
A core tenet of philanthropy is the existence of individuals who cannot meet their own needs, require help, but will eventually be more self sufficient. Social work concerns itself with the capacities of government, community, family, and individuals to supply that assistance while reinforcing self-empowerment. It is our common experience that clients are often in financial need and that financial interventions can build both community and trust.
