Promoting Community Change: Making it Happen in the Real World - Softcover

Henry Parada; Lisa Barnoff; Ken Moffatt; Mark S. Homan

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9780176104306: Promoting Community Change: Making it Happen in the Real World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0176104305 ISBN 13: 9780176104306
Publisher: Nelson Cengage Adapted, 2010

Synopsis

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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Publisher
Nelson Cengage Adapted
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0176104305
ISBN 13 
9780176104306
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
409
Rating
  • 3.33 out of 5 stars
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