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Promoting Community Change: Making It Happen in the Real World by Mark S. Homan (2015, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCengage Learning

ISBN-101305101944

ISBN-139781305101944

eBay Product ID (ePID)204028420

Product Key Features

Number of Pages624 Pages

Publication NamePromoting Community Change: Making It Happen in the Real World

LanguageEnglish

SubjectSocial Work, Sociology / General, Development / General, General

Publication Year2015

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, Business & Economics

AuthorMark S. Homan

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height9.1 in

Item Weight34.5 Oz

Item Length1.1 in

Item Width7.3 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number6

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2015-930696

ReviewsThe text is a great foundation text for developing community change and should be considered as a text and useful resource guide for developing practice into change., Homan's text is one of the most comprehensive texts for explaining the importance and value of community development as a critical strategy for building stronger, safer, and healthier communities and families. It also offers the theory and tools required for a student/practitioner to make positive change happen in the real world.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal307.1/4

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

Table Of ContentPreface.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. People--The Most Valuable Resource.7. Power.8. Powerful Planning.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 Health and Human Services Organizations.15. Lobbying for Change.References.Index.

SynopsisPROMOTING COMMUNITY CHANGE, 6th Edition addresses the real-world issues facing professionals in social work, human services, and community health--and gives readers the skills and information they need to be effective agents of change at the community level. By emphasizing the role a strengthened community can play in preventing and solving the problems commonly experienced by individuals and families, the author gives readers the tools they need to improve the lives of individual clients as well as entire communities.

LC Classification NumberHN49.C6H643 2016