Analytical Skills for Community Organization Practice

Analytical Skills for Community Organization Practice
ISBN-10
0231505116
ISBN-13
9780231505116
Category
Social Science
Pages
380
Language
English
Published
2002-05-01
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Donna Hardina

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.

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