Promoting Community Change Making It Happen in the Real World

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 the social work and human services professionals who want to move beyond a theoretical discussion of community 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. Author Mark Homan emphasizes the role a strengthened community can play in preventing and solving the problems that individuals and families commonly experience. Homan teaches students how to organize empowering local actions that let clients take an active role in building a healthier community for themselves, their families, and their neighbors.Homan, Mark S. is the author of 'Promoting Community Change Making It Happen in the Real World', published 2007 under ISBN 9780495100638 and ISBN 0495100633.