Community Action

Author : Bharat Mehra,Kevin Rioux
Publisher : Library Juice Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1936117657

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Progressive Community Action by Bharat Mehra,Kevin Rioux Pdf

Social justice in library and information science (LIS) seeks to achieve action-oriented, socially relevant impacts through information work. This edited volume includes papers that explore intersections between critical theory and social justice in LIS while focusing on social relevance and community involvement to promote progressive community-wide changes. Contributors include LIS researchers, practitioners, educators, social justice advocates, and community leaders who identify theories, methods, approaches, strategies, and case studies that apply these intersections in mobilizing community action to deliver tangible community building and development outcomes. The frame of study is inclusive of (though not limited to) academic, public, school, and special libraries, museums, archives, and other information-related settings. An international context of analysis is included along with a focus on social impact and community involvement in LIS practice and research, education, policy development, service design, and program implementation.

Author : Jeanne L Hites Anderson,Maurine H Pyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000073942

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Making Change by Jeanne L Hites Anderson,Maurine H Pyle Pdf

Every community has issues or opportunities that need to be addressed. The expert knowledge of community members could be the key to creating lasting change. By making community members into facilitators, Making Change: Facilitating Community Action suggests they can guide community members through the process of making change and to help them determine their goals and methods. The aim of this book is to enable facilitators to identify concerns and address, enable and foster change at the local level through effective facilitation. This book follows a six-stage model for creating change. Beginning with issue awareness, it continues through getting to know the team they are working with, seeking information on the issue and community, through facilitating the planning and community development through evaluation. This book focuses on the human side of the change process while also teaching the practical skills necessary for individuals to reach their goal. Making Change is for people interested in making change to improve their community, including students, community activists, local government and educational leaders.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309452960

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Communities in Action by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States Pdf

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author : Dominelli, Lena
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447341543

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Women and Community Action 3e by Dominelli, Lena Pdf

Historically, women and men have been assigned to different spaces in their communities. Although several decades of feminist social action have made significant progress to the social, economic and political condition of many women, change has been uneven and there remains considerable advancements to be made globally. This valuable third edition considers women’s changing position in the world today, updating some of the perennial challenges that women face and examining new and emerging issues including digital exclusion, sustainable community development and environmental justice. Published in association with the British Association of Social Workers, this book is an invaluable resource for students and practitioners of social work, community work, sociology and social policy.

Author : Briscoe, Maphis, Murray, and Lamont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Community development
ISBN : IND:30000099149860

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Community action and growth management by Briscoe, Maphis, Murray, and Lamont Pdf

Author : Howell S. Baum
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791486672

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Community Action for School Reform by Howell S. Baum Pdf

Community Action for School Reform tells the story of a partnership between Baltimore community activists and a university as they created an organization to improve neighborhood schools. The book examines the challenges they faced, such as persuading community members that they had the necessary knowledge to do something about the schools, starting and sustaining an organization, conducting and using research, engaging the school system, and funding their work.

Author : Jennifer Kent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317416968

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Community Action and Climate Change by Jennifer Kent Pdf

The failure of recent international negotiations to progress global action on climate change has shifted attention to the emergence of grassroots sustainability initiatives. These civil society networks display the potential to implement social innovation and change processes from the ‘bottom up’. Recent scholarship has sought to theorise grassroots community-based low carbon practices in terms of their sustainability transition potential. However there are few empirical examples that demonstrate the factors for success of community-based social innovations in achieving more widespread adoption outside of their local, sustainability ‘niche’. The book seeks to address two significant gaps related to grassroots climate action: firstly the continuing dominance of the individualisation of responsibility for climate change action which presupposes that individuals hold both the ability and desire to shift their behaviours and lifestyle choices to align with a low carbon future. Secondly, the potential for community-based collectives to influence mainstream climate change governance, an area significantly under researched. Drawing on empirical research into Australian Climate Action Groups (CAGs) and related international research, the book argues that grassroots community-based collective action on climate change holds the key to broader social change. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, citizen participation, environmental sociology and sustainable development.

Author : United States Economic Opportunity Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130070258

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Community Action for Employment by United States Economic Opportunity Office Pdf

Author : Community Action Program (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Community development
ISBN : IND:30000109337406

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Planning for Community Action by Community Action Program (U.S.) Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Community War Services. Division of social protection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Prostitution
ISBN : IND:30000090578851

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Challenge to Community Action by United States. Office of Community War Services. Division of social protection Pdf

Author : Tom Lovett,Chris Clarke,Avila Kilmurray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429776144

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Adult Education and Community Action by Tom Lovett,Chris Clarke,Avila Kilmurray Pdf

Originally published in 1982, this book discusses the role of adult education in social and community action. In particular it presents a critical assessment of 'community education' and the theories of Illich, Freire and Gramsci and it proves that there is a radical adult education tradition in the USA, Europe and North America which can offer many insights into the contemporary debate about the role of adult learning. The material is based on a decade of practical involvement in community action and education in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, where - despite deep political and religious divisions - community action has united Catholics and Protestants in a common resolve.

Author : United States. Citizens' Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : UIUC:30112057320241

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Community Action for Environmental Quality by United States. Citizens' Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality Pdf

Author : Community Action Program (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Community organization
ISBN : PURD:32754081231916

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Mobilization of Non-poor Volunteers in Community Action by Community Action Program (U.S.) Pdf

Report on the utilization of non poor volunteers in community development programmes in the USA - covers the recruitment and vocational training of volunteers, and describes sources of volunteers and fields of community action. Bibliography p. 23.

Author : Cohen, Shana,Fuhr, Christina
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447331063

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Austerity, community action, and the future of citizenship by Cohen, Shana,Fuhr, Christina Pdf

The politics of austerity has seen governments across Europe cut back on welfare provision. As the State retreats, this edited collection explores secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the United Kingdom that has evolved in response to changing economic policy and expanding needs, from basic items such as food to more complex means to move out of poverty. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and practitioners in several areas of social intervention, the book explores how the conceptualization and constitutive practices of citizenship and community are changing because of the retreat of the State and the challenge of meeting social and material needs, creating new opportunities for local activism. The book provides new ways of thinking about social and political belonging and about the relations between individual, collective, and State responsibility.

Author : Gallent, Nick,Ciaffi, Daniela
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447315179

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Community Action and Planning by Gallent, Nick,Ciaffi, Daniela Pdf

Analyses the contexts, drivers and outcomes of community action and planning in the global north: from emergent neighbourhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch new towns to associative action in Marseille.