Community Organizing: Theory and Practice, 1st Edition

Explores how helping professionals effectively work in the community.This title is also available as a more affordable with embedded media to illustrate key concepts. Community Organization: Theory and Practice provides readers with the theories, tools and strategies needed to organize effective, participatory change efforts in communities. Readers will learn how these theories inform and can help direct the type of organizing that will work best for a specific community based on its personality, needs, and resources. Community Organization is designed as both a textbook and a reference guide for professionals in the helping field. Standards for Excellence Series - Designed to help students advance their knowledge, values, and skills, the Standards for Excellence Series assists students in associated CSHSE's National Standards to all levels of human service practice. The Standards for Excellence grid at the start of the book provides a quick view of the CSHSE Standards addressed in each chapter.Community Organizing: Theory and Practice 1st Edition is written by Joyce Mc Knight; Joanna Mc Knight Plummer and published by Pearson. ISBNs for Community Organizing: Theory and Practice are 9780133824155, 0133824152 and the print ISBNs are 9780205516810, 0205516815. Additional ISBNs include 9780205887385, 9780133909128, 9780133824377, 9780205647651.