Human Service Program Planning Through a Social Justice Lens

Human Service Program Planning Through a Social Justice Lens provides a foundation in social justice to students while developing practical skills and knowledge about the steps and tasks involved in planning social programs.

Through the "parallel process" of contextualizing social issues while teaching the process of program planning, students will develop a perspective on the need for social justice planning and its impact on marginalized communities and populations. The textbook explores current concepts and approaches to understanding social issues and involving impacted communities and individuals. These include: Intersectionality, Appreciative Inquiry, Participatory Planning and Visioning, which serve to challenge preconceptions while coupling these with the step-by-step approach to planning using the Logic Model.

Utilizing meaningful examples to demonstrate how social justice planning can be implemented, Human Service Program Planning Through a Social Justice Lens is appropriate for students of social work as well as practitioners in human services, public administration and public health.

Irwin Nesoff served as a non-profit executive for fifteen years before joining the social work faculty at Kean University in New Jersey. He later joined the faculty at Wheelock College in Boston where he taught social work before becoming the founding chairperson of the Department of Leadership and Policy. He holds a Doctorate in Social Welfare awarded by the City University of New York Graduate Center.