Promoting Community Change
Making it Happen in the Real World
Mark S. Homan(Author)
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
4th Edition
Published on 6. March 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
462 pages
978-0-495-10063-8 (ISBN)
Description
Learn the skills that will allow you to improve the lives of not only individual clients, but of entire communities, with PROMOTING COMMUNITY CHANGE. This text addresses the real world issues facing social work, human services, and community health professionals who want to take the theoretical discussion of community forward and realize tangible community changes. As you progress through the text, you'll learn to identify the issues related to change and discover exactly how you can become an effective agent of change. Author Mark Homan emphasizes the role a strengthened community can play in preventing and solving the problems that individuals and families commonly experience, and gives you the tools to organize empowering local actions brining clients, families, and other community members into an active role in building a healthier community for themselves, their families, and their neighbors.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Belmont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-495-10063-8 (9780495100638)
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Content
Part I. RESPONDING TO THE NEED FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE. 1. Understanding the Challenge to Change. 2. Theoretical Frameworks for Community Change. 3. Relating Community Change to Professional Practice. 4. Putting Yourself in the Picture. Part II. PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER. 5. Knowing Your Community. 6. Power. 7. Powerful Planning. 8. People--The Most Valuable Resource. 9. Raising Other Resources. 10. Getting the Word Out. 11. Building the Organized Effort. 12. Taking Action--Strategies and Tactics. Part III. A CLOSER LOOK AT TYPICAL CHANGE CONTEXTS. 13. Enhancing the Quality of Neighborhoods. 14. Increasing the Effectiveness of Established, Formal Organizations. 15. Lobbying for Change.