TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gamble,Dorothy N.
AU  - Weil,Marie
TI  - Community practice skills: local to global perspectives 
SN  - 9780231520928
AV  - HV40 .G346 2010 
U1  - 361 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Community-based social services
KW  - Community organization
KW  - Community development
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Volunteer Work
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Part I: Community Practice: Purpose And Knowledge Base; 1: Communities and Community Practice in Local to Global Contexts; 2: Conceptual Frameworks and Models for Community Practice; 3: Evolution of Values, Concepts, and Community Practice Approaches; 4: Theories and Perspectives for Community Practice; Part II: Eight Models of Community Practice for the Twenty-First Century; 5: Neighborhood and Community Organizing; 6: Organizing Functional Communities; 7: Social, Economic, and Sustainable Development8: Inclusive Program Development; 9: Communities and Social Planning; 10: Building Effective Coalitions; 11: Political and Social Action; 12: Movements for Progressive Change; 13: The Challenges for Community Practice Ahead; References; Index
N2  - Dorothy N. Gamble and Marie Weil differentiate among a range of intervention methods to provide a comprehensive and effective guide to working with communities. Presenting eight distinct models grounded in current practice and targeted toward specific goals, Gamble and Weil take an unusually inclusive step, combining their own extensive experience with numerous case and practice examples from talented practitioners in international and domestic settings. The authors open with a discussion of the theories for community work and the values of social justice and human rights, conce
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