Participatory activation of unemployed people as a chance to increase the effectiveness of social services

• Authors: Flaszyńska, Ewa

Abstracts

EN

Participatory activation – as I understand it – is aconscious involvement in the activities of social services (social welfare services and employment services) by the beneficiaries of these services, that is the unemployed and other people who are, because of their life situation, forced to rely on social welfare and who in consequence are at risk of social exclusion. Because of the awareness of their situation, the citizens receiving support from social welfare system feel co-responsible for the actions taken to help them. The specialist cooperating with such a citizen treats him or her as a partner and is able to offer services better suited to his or her needs. Achieving this state of affairs requires increased efforts from the public social and employment services. The aim of my article is to show that bringing a citizen to the state of employment, and thus social inclusion, is obtained thanks to the cooperation between service providers (in this case labour offices and social welfare centres) and citizens themselves. Let me say, that the development of participatory activation of citizens in the recent years has helped to increase the effectiveness of the social service as a whole.

Keywords

EN

participatory activation; cooperation; social services; public employment services

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Praca Socjalna
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 32(3)
• Pages: 75-89

Dates

published

2020-01-03

Contributors

author

Flaszyńska, Ewa