Analytical Skills for Community Organization Practice
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: April 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780231121804
Subjects: Community care; Social Work; Government - State & Provincial; Public Affairs & Administration; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Community organization; Evaluation research (Social ac; Evaluation research (Social action programs); Sociology
Description: "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 sites for community organization practice and is dedicated to the idea that the community organizer, to be truly effective, must be prepared to be an active learner."--BOOK JACKET.