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Homan (Pima Community College) provides students and professionals alike with insights into reasons and processes for achieving community change. The third edition includes expanded coverage of culture and cultural competence, the linkages of local to global conditions, the use of information and communication technology to facilitate change, and discussion of social capital; the addition of a new "framework for action"; and new approaches to fund-raising, building organizations, and strengthening neighborhoods. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Mark Homan's practical--and often humorous--text addresses the real world experiences facing those in the helping professions who focus on communities and organizations, and who want to learn how to actually affect community changes, not only discuss theory. PROMOTING COMMUNITY CHANGE, Third Edition doesn't simply describe issues related to change--it illustrates exactly how readers can personally become effective change agents. Many Social Workers know the techniques for dealing with individuals, but not as many know the techniques for improving communities in which those individuals live. Homan emphasizes the role a strengthened community can play in preventing problems (as well as producing solutions) to problems that individuals and families experience. Rather than a passive 'service' model, Homan presents a development model that empowers communities to transform their own conditions.
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