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Analytical Skills for Community Organization Practice
Donna Hardina
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Description for Analytical Skills for Community Organization Practice
Hardback. This guide promotes the use of analytical skills in community organization practice. It provides methods to assist the practitioner in identifying community problems, planning interventions and conducting evaluations. Num Pages: 380 pages, 38 illus. BIC Classification: JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 179 x 28. Weight in Grams: 681.
This guide promotes the use of analytical skills in community organization practice, including information gathering and processing, legislative research, needs assessment, participatory action research, political analysis, population forecasting and social indicator analysis, power analysis, program development and planning, resource development, budgeting, and grant writing,. These analytical methods, often used in practice but seldom systematically discussed, assist the practitioner in identifying community problems, planning interventions, and conducting evaluations. The text explicates a problem-solving model that identifies concepts and theories underlying practice, methods for problem identification and assessment, and techniques for goal setting, implementation, and evaluation. It features extensive listings of Web ... Read more
This guide promotes the use of analytical skills in community organization practice, including information gathering and processing, legislative research, needs assessment, participatory action research, political analysis, population forecasting and social indicator analysis, power analysis, program development and planning, resource development, budgeting, and grant writing,. These analytical methods, often used in practice but seldom systematically discussed, assist the practitioner in identifying community problems, planning interventions, and conducting evaluations. The text explicates a problem-solving model that identifies concepts and theories underlying practice, methods for problem identification and assessment, and techniques for goal setting, implementation, and evaluation. It features extensive listings of Web ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231121804
SKU
V9780231121804
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About Donna Hardina
Donna Hardina is professor of social work at California State University, Fresno, and has published numerous articles on community organization, nonprofit organizations, and welfare reform. She is the editor of Innovative Approaches for Teaching Community Organization Skills in the Classroom.
Reviews for Analytical Skills for Community Organization Practice
Hardina does a good job of covering the waterfront of community practice without becoming so brief as to be superficial.
Catherine Alter, Dean and professor, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver Social Work Today A book that moves beyond theories and models to examine the essential analytical and technical skills for effective community practice...This is a book ... Read more
Catherine Alter, Dean and professor, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver Social Work Today A book that moves beyond theories and models to examine the essential analytical and technical skills for effective community practice...This is a book ... Read more