Analytical Skills for Community Organization Practice / Edition 1

by Donna Hardina

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231121804
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	1390L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Community Organization Skills
Part 1: Concepts and Theories for Practice
2. Values and Ethics
3. Theoretical Frameworks for Practice
4. Practice Models: Linking Theory with Action
5. Defining Community
Part 2: Problem Identification and Assessment
6. Needs Assessment
7. Power Analysis
8. Legislative Analysis
9. Politics: Analyzing Processes and Outcomes
Part 3: Goal Setting and Implementation
10. Intervention Planning: Using Strategies and Tactics
11. Planning Programs and Services
12. Resource Development and Grant Writing
13. Fiscal Analysis
Part 4: Evaluation
14. Outcome and Process Evaluation
15. Technological Approaches and Techniques: The Implications of the Internet for Community Organization Practice

What People are Saying About This

Julian Chow

A pioneering book on community organization practice in the twenty-first century. It not only provides readers with a rich understanding of what interventions are needed in today's communities, but also takes the reader through a step-by-step, 'how-to-make-it-happen' process.

— Julian Chow, University of California at Berkeley

Editorial Reviews

Hardina does a good job of covering the waterfront of community practice without becoming so brief as to be superficial.

Social Work Today - Catherine Alter

The book makes a useful start towards filling the analytical skills gap in the macro practice literature.

Journal of Community Practice - Megan Meyer

Analytical Skills for Community Organization Practice is a valuable addition to the macro practice literature... a valuable and easy to use reference tool... This text is a must read for all students of community practice.

Social Work with Groups - Raymie H. Wayne

Broad and up to date... It is successful in providing the reader with a grasp of 'the whole.'

European Journal of Social Work - Lennart Nygren

A book that moves beyond theories and models to examine the essential analytical and technical skills for effective community practice...This is a book that everyone interested in community practice would find useful and ejoy reading.

CASW Bulletin

The book makes a useful start towards filling the analytical skills gap in the macro practice literature.

— Megan Meyer

Journal of Community Practice

Broad and up to date... It is successful in providing the reader with a grasp of 'the whole.'

— Lennart Nygren

European Journal of Social Work

Analytical Skills for Community Organization Practice is a valuable addition to the macro practice literature... a valuable and easy to use reference tool... This text is a must read for all students of community practice.

— Raymie H. Wayne

Social Work with Groups

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

Hardina (social work, California State U., Fresno) provides a problem- solving model for assessment, goal setting, implementation, and evaluation. Chapters outline the processes of information gathering, legislative research, needs assessment, participatory action research, political analysis, population forecasting, social indicator analysis, power analysis, program planning, resource development, budgeting, and grant writing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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