Promoting Community Change: Making it Happen in the Real World

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES. The text's many real-world examples show students how to motivate and involve others and keep them involved in making important and necessary changes in the community.
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS. Activities at the end of the chapter as well as online connect the classroom to real world experience in the students' community.
AGENTS OF CHANGE. The text's discussions of approaches to fundraising, obtaining resources, building an organized changed effort, planning for action, and lobbying techniques help students learn how to be effective change agents.
SOLUTIONS FOCUS. Throughout the text, helpful boxed features such as "Take a Moment to Discover," "Change Agent Tips," and "Capturing Concepts" promote building community capacity and the collaborative development of specific solutions for common community problems.
RELEVANT ISSUES. The text reflects the needs and interests of today's students, with extensive information on the value of cultural awareness and competence as well as illustrations that highlight basic concepts to engage students in the material. Designed for students who want to take the theoretical discussion of community forward and become effective agents of change, PROMOTING COMMUNITY CHANGE, Fifth Edition addresses the real world issues facing professionals in social work, human services, and community health. By emphasizing the role a strengthened community can play in preventing and solving the problems that individual More »