Volunteering is playing an increasingly important role in modern social governance, but at the same time, fragmentation of volunteering is also looming. As a science-based concept and effective method embedded in social services, integrated social work provides a direction for solving the fragmentation in volunteer services. From integrated social work, this article takes the volunteer service in X District of Wuxi as an example to analyze the integrated practice path of local volunteer services. It shows that at the value level, the integrated practice of volunteer services requires overall planning to accelerate the unity of volunteer service objectives. At the subject level, it needs cooperation to promote united volunteer service. And at the method level, it demands integration to facilitate volunteer service technology coordination. At present, the development of volunteer services from fragmentation to integration serves as an inevitable trend. To advance volunteer services in the new era, it is necessary to further integrate the internal service value, supply subjects, service methods and skills of the volunteer service system. Through these efforts, volunteer services can be more systematic, standardized and sustainable.

With an increasing incidence of cancer and the significant extension of the average survival of cancer patients, more and more families have suffered. Insufficient support, carers’ stress load, and physical and mental fatigue will lead to a chain of negative effects on caregivers’ and patients’ quality of life or even the doctor-patient relationship. With needs assessment of family carers’ burden in the department of Oncology of H Hospital and a review of relevant interventions, the article discusses establishing mutual aid groups of a “Living with Hope Program” for those caregivers based on the concept of hope. Amid the COVID-19, a sharing online community with writing, interaction, self-therapy and other elements are further built for family members of cancer patients. The program aims to promote the “cycle of hope” in user content production and self-compassion to help caregivers accept disappointment and despair, bid farewell to the past and start anew. Combining both online and offline modes, the program tries to integrate medical social work and cultivate an interactive chain of caring services featured by whole-person and whole-process.

As a new profession, fast-developing social work plays an increasingly important role in social governance. However, neither social status identification of social workers nor stability of social work talents team sees optimistic. Based on professionalism, this article investigates the subjective social status identification of 84 social workers in Nanjing to discuss how the identification of the new professional group is influenced by professionalism. It can be found that professionalism in three dimensions is weak in practice, including professional cultural signals, professional knowledge system and professional access threshold of social work and social workers. Besides, the professional status of social work affects practitioners’ senses of professional value, achievement and social recognition, thus influencing their identification. In essence, social workers’ subjective social status identification is the embodiment of industrial and individual professionalism. Compared with traditional social and economic resource determinism, the professional logic mechanism of their identification highlights the social and cultural connotation of professionalism as a characteristic and relationship. To make the best of social work talents in social governance, the professionalism of social work needs strengthening by integrating professional cultural symbols, constructing a professional knowledge system and setting a strict professional threshold. Therefore, the social status recognition and stability of social workers can be improved.

According to the survey of H City in Hubei Province, social work institutions can be divided into professional ones and community-based ones. For the former, they are plagued by weak demand perception, vague location of clients and low social recognition, leading to a lack of ability to discover trapped people as well as organization and mobilization capacity in crisis. For the latter ones, there are limitations in social recognition, convergence between their tasks and community party-mass services, and no ability to meet residents’ high level and differentiated needs. Professional ones can address lagging demand perception and low social recognition by building an acquaintance community while community-oriented ones should enhance professionalism and planning. Besides, the relevant government departments should facilitate the supply-side reform of social work institutions when boosting the establishment of a crisis database to learn from experience and lessons.

With the rapid growth of China’s urban economy and urbanization, a large number of rural young and middle-aged labor forces flock to cities and towns, resulting in a lot of children left behind in rural areas. Therefore, the plight of survival and development faced by unattended children requires to be solved urgently. Taking the children in Y County of a minority Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province as an example, this article adopts the in-depth interview and non-participant observation to collect data. Combined with the perspective of social work integration, it analyzes the growth difficulties and needs unique to left-behind children in minority areas. Besides, it discusses the effective intervention path of social work services and puts forward an integrated social work service model based on support, treatment and empowerment.

Through the depth interviews to collect the empirical data, this paper deeply analyzes the characteristics and influencing factors of rural adolescents’ excessive short videos viewing. The characteristics of rural teenagers’ excessive short videos viewing are as follows: mainly using Kuaishou app, accompanied by mobile phone addiction symptoms; watching short videos with high frequency and for long time, accompanied by withdrawal symptoms; the coexistence of entertainment motive, information motive and social motive. The influencing factors of rural adolescents’ excessive short videos viewing are as follows. Firstly, rural adolescents’ strong demand for growth in adolescence has not been well responded in real life, which is the deep reason of their own. Secondly, bad examples and ineffective regulation from family are important external risk factors. Thirdly, the algorithm recommendation technology of short video platforms and the absence of teenage model are important platform inducements. On this basis, some suggestions are proposed as follows. Emphasis should be placed on strengthening network media literacy education for rural adolescents, and helping them form good habits in using internet scientifically. In order to satisfy the needs of growing rural adolescents, multiple sectors should collaborate to provide them with a variety of recreational and sports activities, as well as professional services which is good for mental and physical health. Parent education and guidance for rural adolescents’ parents should be strengthened, thereby strengthening the awareness of parental responsibility, as well as enhancing effective supervision and education capabilities. It is necessary to strengthen the supervision of short video platforms, and build the teenager mode with highly rigorous prevention measures.

By collecting information through interviews about the Internet use of the elderly, this article constructs a multiple causes model of the digital divide among the elderly based on grounded theory analysis. The results show that social environment, Internet positioning, important others and individual endowments act as four key reasons for the digital divide among the aged. In the social environment and Internet positioning, there is a lack of an age-appropriate Internet. Important others fail to support the Internet use by elderly people and individual endowment of the elderly restricts their use of the Internet. Therefore, they are more likely than the young to encounter the digital divide, but with little obvious subjective experience.

Improvement of elderly care services and system will help meet diversified and multi-level needs of services for the elderly, which is important for responding to population aging in the new era. Based on the investigation of NS district in the GBA, it is found that when providing services and building systems for the aged, NS district tries to bridge the gap between urban residents and rural farmers, local population and new urban immigrants, mainland population and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao. Besides, it strengthens basic elderly care services, thus gradually forming a stratified and inclusive model. The new model will enhance the cooperation of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, facilitate effective connection with cross-border services and promote care programs for elders in the GBA. Meanwhile, it is somehow a return to the human demand-based welfare supply model and an effort of China that makes access to social welfare and basic public services more equal in the new era.

China encourages multi-stakeholder participation in rural governance to exert the role of social synergy and promote modernization of the rural governance system and governance capabilities. Under this background, Z Village of Beijing implements the concept of service-oriented governance by introducing social work institutions, fostering village self-organization and accepting the engagement of external social forces in governance. Led by the village party branch committee and villagers committee cooperating with social work organizations, a governance model is gradually formed that stimulates and supports village self-organization participation, and introduces external social resources to boost governance. In this model, with common governance goals, multiple subjects conduct democratic consultation with each other. Besides, they work together to develop stable communication and cooperation and form a mechanism for common deliberations. As a result, the model achieves cooperative governance by multiple subjects.

Contextuality is one of the three basic attributes of policy sciences, paying attention to the influence of changing social reality on the decision-making model. Political characteristics of contextualism have an impact on policy subjects’ judgment and definition of policy issues. They also determine the fundamental possibility that the issue itself will be a policy agenda to be discussed. Contextual action theory focuses on the setting of policy agenda and major problems in policy evolution. While contextual interaction theory involves the interaction of multiple subjects at the level of policy implementation and differences among subjects in resources and information. Besides, contextual governance emphasizes the basic ability of government departments to select policy tools and solve policy problems. Contextual analysis will be applied to grassroots governance and other key areas, which helps identify fundamental political attributes in the policy process and analyze the interactive relationship among multiple participants. In these ways, specific methods can be put forward to optimize policy tools application.