Community organization is a social work process aimed at meeting community needs and developing integration. It involves conscious community efforts to control affairs democratically and access high-quality services through recognized relationships between organizations. Community organization assists groups in recognizing common needs and meeting them. Its objectives include analyzing available resources and services, gaining facts about human needs, bringing people into all phases of the process, stimulating interest in social problems, determining priorities, developing service standards, and identifying gaps. Principles of community organization are that it is a means, not an end, individuals and groups differ, communities have self-determination rights, social needs form the organization base, self-interest guides programming, coordination enables growth, structures should be simple, services distributed equ

1. Community organisation

2. COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
• Community organization as a social work
process distinct from case work, group
work,
• Which are concerned with welfare of the
individual
• It is directed to providing services for
people with special needs

3. General Meaning
• C-O is a process in which efforts are
directed towards meeting the community
needs and developing integration within
the community
• C-O is one of the social work method,
which guide us to organize various social
related programme in a systematic way,
based on the needs of the community.

4. Lindeman - 1921
• Community organization is that phase of
social organization which constitutes a
conscious effort on the part of a
community
- to control its affairs democratically
- to secure the highest services from its
specialist, organizations, agencies and
- institutions by means of recognized inter
relations
Definitions

5. Pattit - 1925
• The term “ Community organization is best
defined as assisting a group of people to
recognize their common needs and
helping them to meet these needs

6. Objectives
• McNeil – has mentioned the following objectives.
- analyzing resource – services available to meet the
needs.
- gaining facts about human needs
- bringing into participation in all phases of the process.
- stimulating citizen interest in social problems and
creating motivation for action through participation and
education.
- determining priorities
- developing and improving standards of service
- identification of gaps of services.

7. Principles
• Johns & demarche has narrated the following
principles;
- community organization is a means not an
end
- individuals and groups are different
- communities like individuals have the right
to self determination
- social needs is the base for organization
- self interest should be the first consideration
in determining programme
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8. coordination is the process of growth
- C-O structure should be kept as simple as
possible
- services should be distributed equitably
- Diversity in programme approach should be
respectd
- Broad representation in inter-agency bodies
- balance between centralised and
decentralised
- barriers to communication must be broken
down
- communities need professional help