Community Service Task
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A Community Service Task is a human work task that requires the benefit and betterment of their community
- Example(s):
- Volunteering.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Service-Learning, Community Practice, Community Service, Corvee.
References
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/community_work Retrieved:2022-1-30.
- Community work may refer to
- Community service: unpaid work performed by a person or group of people for the benefit and betterment of their community without any form of compensation
- Community practice: a branch of social work that focuses on larger social systems and social change,
- Community work may refer to
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/community_service Retrieved:2016-1-8.
- Community service is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institutions. Performing community service is not the same as volunteering, since it is not always performed on a voluntary basis. It may be performed for a variety of reasons:
- it may be required by a government as a part of citizenship requirements, generally in lieu of military service;
- it may be required as a substitution of, or in addition to, other criminal justice sanctions – when performed for this reason it may also be referred to as community payback ;
- it may be mandated by schools to meet the requirements of a class, such as in the case of service-learning or to meet the requirements of graduation.
- in the UK, it has been made a condition of the receipt of certain benefits, including disability-related ones.(see Workfare in the United Kingdom)
- Community service is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institutions. Performing community service is not the same as volunteering, since it is not always performed on a voluntary basis. It may be performed for a variety of reasons: