In the context of community “voluntary failure”, “weak participation” of residents, and the mismatch between the supply of voluntary services and the actual dynamic demand, the innovation of the community voluntary service delivery model has become one of the topics widely concerned by the academic community. Based on the theory of co-production and on the basis of defining the connotation and logic of co-production of community voluntary service, the process mechanism is further revealed from the stages of service initiation, resource link, subject interaction, value creation, evaluation, and feedback. Community voluntary service contains rich characteristics of co-production. In the process of organizing voluntary service, we should change our concept and realize that an open cooperative system is the action framework of co-production of community voluntary service. Multi-agent collaborative production is the direction of development for co-production of community voluntary service, and “service orientation” is an important concept of co-production of community voluntary service. The community residents are not only the recipients and beneficiaries of voluntary service in the process, but also the participants and co-producers of services.

Rural venture philanthropy projects are an innovative approach to aid rural revitalization and enhance community governance. They encourage villagers to to participate in community autonomy and stimulate their vitality. However, the sustainable development of these projects is affected by many factors. Adopting the grounded theory, this study examines the Huanglong Village project and identifies team characteristics, project quality, government support and partners as crucial factors affecting the sustainable development of rural venture philanthropy. Team characteristics include team structure, internal relationships and professional competence. Project quality factors include project type, project matching degree with community needs, and project public benefit effect. Government support factors, including the support and support intensity from community grass-roots party organizations and the government for the rural venture philanthropy. Partner factors include social work stations’ supervision of rural venture philanthropy projects, resource links and capacity empowerment. The sustainable development of rural venture philanthropy projects can be optimized and promoted from these four dimensions.

Outwork is a labor mode in which factories use outsourcing to give production materials to workers, and the workers process goods on a household basis. Based on semi-structured interviews with women engaged in outwork in Y community, X City, Henan Province from 2019 to 2022, this study found that outwork of “farm-to-live” women promoted the changes of family reproduction and family relations. In terms of family reproduction, it optimizes the labor distribution, relieves the pressures of development, and improves the ability of the family to withstand risks. In terms of family relationships, it reconstructs women’s status in the household, reduces parent-child conflicts, and strengthens intergenerational emotion.

Through practice, the assets-based community development model has become a widely accepted practice model of community development. Based on existing theories and practice achievements, there are four approaches to understand the asset-based community development model: asset-building approaches, rights-based approaches, community driven development approaches and community strengths approaches. Different theoretical and practical approaches result in different community development ideas and directions. In the era of post-poverty alleviation and the current era of rural revitalization, the asset-based community development model gives us at least four important inspirations. First of all, the perspective of looking at rural areas and poor farmers should change from a problem-orientated to a strength perspective. Secondly, we should cultivate the subjectivity of rural and poor people; Thirdly, strengthen the construction of a positive support network within and between communities. Fourthly, try to explore the innovative application of financial methods in anti-poverty.

In recent years, with the introduction of the Charity Law, the relationship between charity and social work has become thefocus of academic discussion. By reviewing the previous research results, this paper systematically sorted out the feasibility of integrating charity and social work considering their shared roots of history, values, and practice. This paper also examines the necessity of such integration in terms of the concept of helping others and the systems of ethics, profession, resources, and institutions. Further to that, we explore the possible pathways of such integration in the fields of cultural foundations, theoretical models, institutions of management, and goals. However, current research lacks a theoretical framework, and there is a limited exploration of localized research topics. Therefore, this research offers insights for future study by suggesting expanding research scopes beyond disciplinary boundaries, shifting research focuses, and combining local practice with an international perspective.

Public trust is the support for the operation of charities. A series of trust repair measures should be taken to achieve the public trust repair after trust violation. Charities have a variety of specific trust repair strategies under trust violation and can also establish different types of trust repair strategy combinations. However, the impacts of trust repair strategies on repair results are mainly produced indirectly through public psychological factors such as attribution mechanism, emotional responses, public perception, etc. At the same time, the impacts of trust repair strategies on repair results may be different due to different situational factors, such as charities’ characteristics, Chinese traditional culture and institutional environment, and public individuals’ characteristics. Therefore, charities under trust violation should formulate better trust repair strategies to promote public trust repair, and should pay more attention to the impacts of strategies on public psychology and improve the pertinence of strategies to different situations to improve the effects of trust repair.

School social work is one of the important practice areas of social work, and the less developed areas in the west of China are actively promoting social work to enter the school field, so how to give full play to the professional power of school social work is a topic of concern. Observing the professional practice of L-schools in Yunnan Province and adopting the social work systemic perspective, we analyze the practice dilemmas of changing the media system, the service object system, the target system, and the action system faced by school social work. Further to that, we explore the breakthrough strategies in social work professional practice. The study found that the development of school social work in the western less-developed regions faces greater challenges due to factors such as the scarcity of social work talents, the low awareness of social work, the limited environmental conditions for social work development, and the big difference in philosophies between social work and schools. Based on this, we adopt the approach of enhancing the capacity of the above four basic social work systems to break through the dilemmas by emphasizing the cultivation of local talents, raising the awareness of social work, improving the development environment of social work, and importing the value concepts of social work, so as to promote the landing and development of school social work in the western less-developed regions.

The social cognitive career theory suggests that individual career choices are influenced by the environment, individual, and behavior. According to the theory, self-efficacy, whose main factors are professional identity and professional competence, is the core cognitive variable along with outcome expectations and personal goals. Professional identity influences social work undergraduate students’ career choices via professional efficacy and outcome expectations, and the professional competence improvement has a positive impact on professional efficacy and ultimately impacts career choices. The decision of choosing a career in the field of social work is a result of the collective interaction of individual, professional, social, and policy factors. Among them, alignment of professional beliefs and personal values is a prerequisite for career choices. When professional beliefs, professional identity, and professional competence, either singly or in combination, align with career goals, positive mechanisms of career choices take precedence over the influence of environmental factors. Otherwise, the students may choose to abandon a career in social work.

In the practice of primary-level governance, experiences such as the organizational framework of party structure embedded in the community, the mobilization of endogenous forces in the community, and the external supply of social charity resources have been formed. However, due to factors such as the path dependence of omnipotent governance, the effectiveness of the Linkage of Five Elements has not been fully utilized. Therefore, it is urgent to promote the improvement of the primary-level governance mechanism of the Linkage of Five Elements from the aspects of government hierarchy system, social voluntary participation, community consultation platform, and residents’ subjective awareness.

Flexible governance is increasingly becoming an important means for international communities to improve governance efficiency. Based on the analytical framework of social and cultural space and adopting the extended case method, this study analyzes the case of Q community, an international community in Nanjing, investigates the flexible governance mechanism driven by social and cultural space composed of core elements such as public space, social relations and community system. The study further explores the upgrading and transformation path of community governance. Our research suggests that public space is the kernel in practice. Guided by the principle of resident autonomy, the concept of “people-oriented” governance is put into practice with both Chinese and foreign residents taking the leading role in public and cultural disciplines. Guided by the idea of diverse participation, social relations play a fundamental part in the formation of subjectivities in “multiple collaborative” governance,through the process of multiple coordination and complementary advantages. The community system is the safeguard of the implementation of flexible governance strategy. Through flexible governance and multiple considerations led by government departments, the social system drives the implementation of flexible governance strategies.

Social policies play an important role in maintaining social stability and improving people’s well-being. According to the important historical nodes, China’s social policy can be divided into three stages: gradual development, gradual transformation and gradual integration, each of which is characterized by singularity, alternation and integration. Based on the historical institutionalism method, this research analyzes the reasons for the above characteristics of China’s social policy. It is found that the self-locking effect, the external effect and the coordination effect in the welfare provision system drive the changes of China’s social policy system respectively. The above changes are jointly influenced by interest selection, transformation of efficiency and fairness, and the internal and external institutional environment of the social policy system.