This chapter focuses on community/organizational based social work. There are many social functions of a community. The main social function of a community is production, distribution and consumption of food and services, social support and mutual support. Social workers also use practice evaluation techniques such as task achievement scaling in order to better assess the needs of a community. This chapter also discusses program budgets. These are budgets that look into the financial means of different agencies such as foster care or adoption agencies. When working in a community, we as social workers must act as Mediators in order to present the views of organizations to others. Sometimes the technique of field studying is used to gather ideas and opinions from those in the community in which we are working with. We do this through interviews and observations.
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