지역아동센터 종사자들의빈곤아동 개입 경험에 대한 연구

Study on the Experience of Intervention in Child Poverty among Workers in Local Community Children Centers: The Tension Between a Mother's Heart and a Facilitator's Heart

This study aims to examine the viewpoints of workers in local community children centers as well as to find the fundamental meaning of their experiences of intervention in child poverty. To do so, a qualitative research was conducted among 4 workers with at least 3 years of work experience in local community children centers, including the head of a center and staff members. This study applied the phenomenological research method of Giorgi among qualitative research methods in order to understand the meaning of work experiences in local community children centers and their nature. The result of the analysis deduced 25 concepts such as “children requiring care”; 11 subcategories, including “children requiring satisfaction”; and 5 upper categories, including “mother’s heart to embrace trouble-makers.”. Understanding the experiences of intervention in child poverty among workers at local community children centers will lead to a study on the influence of service providers on children in poverty as well as to a study for improved services for children in poverty. It is expected that doing so will lead to producing practical implications of child welfare.