Learn to diagnose problems in public and community organization. Sessions will cover such issues as limits of formal citizen participation and community involvement mechanisms, limits of comprehensive community-based planning models, and role confusion in community innovations. Develop a broader repertoire of organizational solutions. Gain experience in effectively matching organizational solutions with diagnoses. Sessions will evaluate the design of major public and private initiatives such as welfare reform, healthy families, empowerment zones, and violence prevention.
Participants can present design problems encountered in their current work.