Published In
China Journal of Social Work
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-5-2024
Subjects
Social Work education, COVID-19 -- China
Abstract
During the peak years of COVID-19, Chinese social work service organisations actively participated in the preventing and controlling of the pandemic. These organisations also faced external challenges that reflected changing public health policies, contractual and fiscal changes, and immense service needs. This paper describes the specific external challenges that a purposive sample of 11 Beijing-based social work service organisations experienced because of the pandemic, as well as the strategies they used to address them. We find that project and fiscal precarity were the greatest external risks faced by social service organisations. In order to mitigate these concerns, the organisations actively explored new directions for service development and programme funding as they sought to change their operational thinking. In order for social service organisations to remain resilient under conditions of immense external risks, they must remain focused on continuously improving and innovating in the delivery of social work services. We provide implications for researchers and organisational leaders.
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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any med-ium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this articlehas been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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DOI
10.1080/17525098.2024.2430827
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/42948
Citation Details
Xu, B., McBeath, B., & Xi, H. (2024). ‘T-W-O’: external challenges and coping strategies of Chinese social work service organisations during the epidemic. China Journal of Social Work, 17(2), 112–129.