Promoting Community Change: Making it Happen in the Real World

Promoting Community Change: Making it Happen in the Real World
ISBN-10
0176725970
ISBN-13
9780176725976
Series
Promoting Community Change
Category
Education
Language
English
Published
2018-09-04
Publisher
Cengage Learning Canada Inc
Authors
Henry Parada, Mark Homan, Ken Moffatt

Description

Give your students a text that will help them improve the lives of not only individual clients, but of entire communities, with Promoting Community Change. This text addresses the real world issues facing Canadian social work, human services, and community health professionals who want to take the theoretical discussion of community forward and realize tangible community changes. Students will learn to identify the issues related to change and discover exactly how they can become effective agents of change. The author team emphasizes the role a strengthened community can play in preventing and solving the problems that individuals and families commonly experience. Promoting Community Change teaches students how to organize empowering local actions bringing clients, families, and other community members into an active role in building a healthier community for themselves, their families, and their neighbours.

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