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The Handbook of Community Practice

Second Edition
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August 2012 | 968 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

The Second Edition of The Handbook of Community Practice is expanded and updated with a major global focus and serves as a comprehensive guidebook of community practice grounded in social justice and human rights. It utilizes community and practice theories and encompasses community development, organizing, planning, social change, policy practice, program development, service coordination, organizational cultural competency, and community-based research in relation to global poverty and community empowerment. This is also the first community practice text to provide combined and in-depth treatment of globalization and international development practice issues—including impacts on communities in the United States and on international development work. The Handbook is grounded in participatory and empowerment practices, including social change, social and economic development, feminist practice, community-collaborative, and engagement in diverse communities. It utilizes the social development perspective and employs analyses of persistent poverty, asset development, policy practice, and community research approaches as well as providing strategies for advocacy and social and legislative action.

The handbook consists of forty chapters which challenge readers to examine and assess practice, theory, and research methods. As it expands on models and approaches, delineates emerging issues, and connects policy and practice, the book provides vision and strategies for local to global community practice in the coming decades.

The handbook will continue to stand as the central text and reference for comprehensive community practice, and will be useful for years to come as it emphasizes direction for positive change, new developments in community approaches, and focuses attention on globalization, human rights, and social justice. It will continue to be used as a core text for multiple courses within programs, will have long term application for students of community practice, and will provide practitioners with new grounding for development, planning, organizing, and empowerment and social change work.

Marie Weil, Mary L. Ohmer, Michael Reisch
Introduction- Communities: Contexts and Challenges for the 21st Century
William Brueggeman
History and Context for Community Practice
Michael Reisch
Community Practice Challenges in the Global Economy
Michael Reisch, Jim Ife, Marie Weil
Social Justice, Human Rights, Values, and Community Practice
Robert J. Chaskin
Theories of Community
Marie Weil, Mary L. Ohmer
Applying Practice Theories in Community Work
Marie Weil, Dorothy N. Gamble, Mary L. Ohmer
Evolution, Models and the Changing Context of Community Practice
Lakshmi Lingam
Development Theories and Community Development Practice: Trajectory of Changes
Dorothy Gamble, Marie D. Hoff
Sustainable Community Development
Mary L. Ohmer, Fred Brooks, III
The Practice of Community Organizing: Comparing and Contrasting Conflict and Consensus Approaches
Rinku Sen
New Theory for New Constituencies: Contemporary Organizing in Communities of Color
Marie Weil
Social Planning with Communities: Theory & Practice
Jon Simon Sager
Larger Scale Social Planning; Planning for Services, Communities and Regions
Dorothy N. Gamble
Participatory Methods in Community Practice
Jacqueline Mondros
Political, Social and Legislative Action
Michael Reisch
Radical Community Organizing
Terry Mizrahi, Beth Rosenthal, Jan Ivery
Coalitions, Collaborations and Partnerships: Interorganizational Approaches to Social Change
Bruce Jansson, Gretchen Heidemann, Jacquelyn McCroskey, Ralph Fertig
Eight Models of Policy Practice: Local, State, National, and International Arenas
Patricia St. Onge
Cultural Competency: Organizations and Diverse Populations
Lorraine Gutierrez, Edith Lewis, Adrienne Dessel, Mike Spencer
Principles, Skills, and Practice Strategies for Promoting Multicultural Communication and Collaboration
Iris Carlton-LaNey, Yolanda Burwell, Craig White
Rural Community Practice: Organizing, Planning, and Development
Alice B. Gates, David Dobbie
Renewing Social Work's Commitment to Workplace Justice
David Feehan, Marvin D. Feit, Carol Becker
Community Economic and Social Development in a Changing World
Tracy Soska, Robert J. Fiekema
Comprehensive Community Building at a Crossroads in Civil Society
Margaret Brodkin
Creating a Model Children's Service System: Lessons from San Francisco
Melvin Delgado, Lee Staples
Youth-Led Organizing, Community Engagement, and Opportunity Creation
Joan Pennell, Gabrielle Maxwell, Jessalyn Nash
Restorative Justice and Youth Offending
Richard J. Estes
Global Change and Indicators of Social Development
Gina Agnes N. Chowa, Rainier De Vera Masa, Michael Sherraden, Marie Weil
Confronting Global Poverty: Building Economic Opportunity and Social Inclusion
Manohar Pawar
International Community Practice: Local-Global Issues and Strategies
Monica Marie Alzate, Janki Andharia, Gina Agnes N. Chowa, Marie Weil, Alison Doernberg
Women and Leadership in Development, Planning, and Organizing
Mark Samples, Michael J. Austin
The Role of Human Service Nonprofits in Promoting Community Building
Scott A. Killough
Building Local Capacity for Rural Development: Experiences from World Neighbors
Terry L. Cross, Barbara Friesen
Developing Cultural Compentence and Youth- and Family- Driven Services in Systems of Care
Jenneth Carpenter, Patrick Sullivan
In Search of the System: Adult Mental Health
F. Ellen Netting, Mary Katherine O'Connor
Program Planning and Implementation: Designing Responses to Address Community Needs
Armand Lauffer
Fundraising and Community Practice: A Stakeholder Model
Mary L. Ohmer, Joanne L. Sobeck, Samantha N. Teixeria, John M. Wallace, Valerie B. Shapiro
Community-Based Research: Rationale, Methods, Roles and Considerations for Community Practice
Dick Schoech
Community Practice in the Digital Age
Amy Hillier, Dennis Culhane
GIS Applications and Administrative Data to Support Community Change

Comprehensive and targets subject areas

Ms Jan Selander
School Of Social Work, Aurora University
July 4, 2015

This book addresses some very important issues that serves to enhance critical community practice, knowledge and skills.

Miss Monica Miller
Sociology/Social Work Unit, University of Guyana
October 14, 2014

This book is fantastic: it has all the theoretical readings that are necessary, has some great international focus, and doesn't "dumb it down" for students. Love it.

Professor Jacob Lesniewski
GSSW, Dominican University
May 28, 2014

Too large for single class on community develop. Great library resource.

Dr David Rothwell
Social Work, McGill Univ
March 14, 2014

good materials for integrated practice students

Professor Julia Kleinschmit
School Of Social Work, University of Iowa
October 21, 2013

Chose a more Thorough text

Dr Martha Low
Behavioral Sciences, Winston - Salem State University
February 22, 2013

My sales rep Julie went out of the way to get me review copies and advance proofs so that I could see the text before it was published. Since I know the editors and many of the authors, I knew that it would include the best scholarship on community practice available to date. I hope to be asked to write a chapter for the next edition!

Dr Richard Smith
School Of Social Work, Wayne State University
September 12, 2012

Sample Materials & Chapters

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International Community Practice


Marie Overby Weil

Marie O. Weil, DSW, ACSW, is Berg-Beach Professor of Community Practice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  More About Author

Michael Stewart Reisch

Michael Reisch is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland. A former Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar, he has held faculty and administrative positions at five other major U.S. universities, and has been a visiting professor and lectured widely in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Based on his interdisciplinary educational background in law, history, political and social theory, and social work, he has authored or edited 35 books and monographs, 150 journal articles and book chapters, and over 450 conference papers. His scholarship focuses on such topics as poverty and inequality,... More About Author

Mary Louise Ohmer

 Mary Ohmer has over twenty years of experience working in community organizing and development around the country with national and local nonprofit and community based organizations, foundations, and government.  Dr. Ohmer has taught consensus organizing approaches as part of macro practice and community organizing social work courses.  She received her Ph.D. in social work from the University of Pittsburgh in August 2004, and she is currently an assistant professor at the School of Social Work at Georgia State University.  Dr. Ohmer is also currently working with the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta to help them... More About Author

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