Building Strong Communities : Guidelines on empowering the grass roots

Steve Skinner

ISBN 10: 1352007851 / ISBN 13: 9781352007855

Editore: Bloomsbury 3PL, Red Globe Press, 2019

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Building Strong Communities is an introductory textbook that contains practical tools, down-to-earth frameworks and useful methods, a valuable resource for working with communities. A key focus of the book is on empowering the grass roots - building people, groups, organisations, partnerships and networks. In particular, it describes how strong communities might look with seven key features and introduces a new 'Wheel of Participation' as a useful planning framework. Written by a practitioner for both students and other practitioners, the book combines theory and practice, draws on recent research and is packed with practical examples.This is key reading for Community Studies, Social Work or Youth and Community programmes, and will also be useful in many different settings, such as regeneration, local government, health and housing.

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• Titolo: Building Strong Communities : Guidelines on empowering the grass roots
• Editore: Bloomsbury 3PL, Red Globe Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1352007851
• ISBN 13: 9781352007855
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 244 L x 170 A x 11 P (millimetri) 244 millimetri di larghezza per 170 millimetri di altezza per 11 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 362 grammi

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Riassunto

Building Strong Communities is an introductory textbook that contains practical tools, down-to-earth frameworks and useful methods, a valuable resource for working with communities. A key focus of the book is on empowering the grass roots - building people, groups, organisations, partnerships and networks.

In particular, it describes how strong communities might look with seven key features and introduces a new 'Wheel of Participation' as a useful planning framework. Written by a practitioner for both students and other practitioners, the book combines theory and practice, draws on recent research and is packed with practical examples.

This is key reading for community studies, social work or youth and community programmes, and will also be useful in many different settings, such as regeneration, local government, health and housing.

Informazioni sull?autore

Steve Skinner, MA, CQSW, is the Director of Steve Skinner Associates, a well-established consultancy working nationally. He has taught part time at Leeds Beckett University, UK, in Managing in the Community and was formerly Director of Community Engagement at the University of Bradford, UK.