Promoting Community Change Making it Happen in the Real World

by Homan, Mark S.

• ISBN13: 9780495100638
• ISBN10: 0495100633
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-06
• Publisher: Brooks Cole

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Responding to the Need for Community Change

Understanding the Challenge to Change

Theoretical Frameworks for Community Change

Relating Community Change to Professional Practice

Putting Yourself in the Picture

Putting the Pieces Together

Knowing Your Community

Power

Powerful Planning

People--The Most Valuable Resource

Raising Other Resources

Getting the Word Out

Building the Organized Effort

Taking Action--Strategies and Tactics

A Closer Look at Typical Change Contexts

Enhancing the Quality of Neighborhoods

Increasing the Effectiveness of Established, Formal Organizations

Lobbying for Change

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