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Social Workers are a profession that has special skills in helping individuals, families, and communities to carry out their social functions optimally. One form of intervention carried out is through childcare, especially for children who are in a threatened condition or have lost care from the nuclear family. SOS Children's Village Medan implements a family-based care system that aims to create a safe, loving environment that supports children's holistic development. This study aims to determine the form of care carried out by social workers at SOS Children's Village Medan. The method used in this study is qualitative with a descriptive approach. The results of the study indicate that social workers play an important role in designing, supervising, and evaluating care patterns and accompanying children in meeting physical, emotional, social, and educational needs. The family approach has been proven to be able to build emotional bonds and improve the quality of life of the children being assisted.

This research aims to identify the problems faced by children's study groups, especially in religious education, namely Koran recitation groups. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive approach by collecting data through interviews and observations of children's study groups. The results of the research show several main problems, including children's lack of understanding about learning religion, especially reciting the Koran, for example in reading Iqro', memorizing short surahs, and also memorizing the Al-Qur'an. As a solution, the group will act as social workers, namely as Koran teachers in order to help children or children's study groups complete religious education, especially memorizing surahs and memorizing the Al-Qur'an. This research focuses on the role of a social worker, namely as a teacher in helping children's study groups increase the effectiveness of the children's study groups.