Community work / Alan Twelvetrees.

By:

Twelvetrees, Alan C

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Practical social work seriesPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.Edition: 4th ed; fourth editionDescription: p. cmISBN:

1403949999 (alk. paper)
9781403949998 (alk. paper)

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HN400.C6 T925 2008

Contents:

What is community work? -- Planning the intervention, contact making, and evaluation -- Working with community groups, one : helping people set up and run groups -- Working with community groups, two : dealing with practical issues and problems -- Survival, personal development, and reflective practice -- Social planning approaches to community work -- Community work, social change, and broad based organizing -- Advanced practice -- Specialist community work -- Community work and public policy : towards comprehensive strategies.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Drawing on his own professional experience, Alan Twelvetrees addresses the needs of students, field-level community workers and managers. Both theory and practice are described in a highly readable and honest way and the updated fourth edition of this
bestseller includes placing community work at the centre of neighbourhood renewal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Practice focus boxes (p. xi)
Preface to the fourth edition (p. xiii)
Acknowledgements (p. xv)
1 Introduction: What is community work? (p. 1)
Different approaches to community work (p. 2)
Starting where people are: a paradox (p. 7)
The centrality of networking (p. 8)
The problem of invisibility and demonstrating effectiveness (p. 10)
Start-stop ... start and sustainability (p. 10)
What is community work for? (p. 11)
The value and effects of community work (p. 14)
Conclusion (p. 17)
Points to ponder (p. 18)
Further reading (p. 18)
2 Planning for effective community work (p. 19)
Designing the intervention (p. 19)
Contact-making (p. 23)
A community profile (or needs analysis) (p. 27)
From community profile to analysis and action (p. 35)
Evaluating community work (p. 37)
Conclusion (p. 42)
Points to ponder (p. 43)
Further reading (p. 43)
3 Helping people set up and run community groups (p. 44)
Why set up community groups? (p. 44)
Intensive work to set up a group (p. 45)
Contractual work (p. 53)
Training (p. 56)
Organisational and interactional skills (p. 57)
The worker's role in meetings (p. 58)
Work with individual group members (p. 59)
Structuring the group (p. 61)
Creating a constituency (p. 64)
Relationships with the 'outside' world (p. 66)
'Professionals' in groups (p. 67)
Work with existing groups (p. 67)
Working with moribund groups (p. 68)
Leading and 'doing for' (p. 69)
Creating larger organisations and the role of professional staff (p. 69)
Withdrawal: from intensive work to 'servicing' to 'exit' (p. 71)
Conclusion (p. 74)
Points to ponder (p. 75)
Further reading (p. 75)
4 Community groups: dealing with practical issues and problems (p. 76)
Understanding community participation (p. 76)
Understanding and influencing group processes (p. 78)
Using the media (p. 86)
Relationships with politicians (p. 87)
Personal politics (p. 88)
Living in the area (p. 88)
Some paradoxes of buildings (p. 89)
Advice centres (p. 89)
Information and communication technology (ICT) (p. 90)
Conclusion (p. 90)
Points to ponder (p. 91)
Further reading (p. 91)
5 Survival, personal development and reflective practice (p. 92)
Surviving agency pressure (p. 92)
Building protection and creating space (p. 94)
Work plans (p. 94)
Getting out at the right time (p. 95)
The stresses of the job (p. 95)
Towards more effective, and reflective, practice (p. 96)
Points to ponder (p. 101)
Further reading (p. 101)
6 Social planning approaches to community work (p. 102)
Acting as an advocate for a group (p. 103)
Direct work: setting up projects and working with service providers (p. 104)
Liaison with professionals, or inter-agency work (p. 105)
Mainstreaming, programme bending, and changing bureaucratic procedures (p. 106)
Service strategies and influence strategies in social planning (p. 108)
The 'professional' neighbourhood organisation (p. 108)
From social planning to community development? (p. 109)
Dilemmas of social planning (p. 109)
The dangers of social planning in community work (p. 109)
Politics, power and social planning (p. 110)
From fieldworker to project manager (p. 111)
Local staff? (p. 114)
Agency/project maintenance (p. 114)
Interdependence and the sequence of actions (p. 115)
People management (p. 115)
Conclusion (p. 119)
Points to ponder (p. 120)
Further reading (p. 120)
7 Community work, social change, and broad-based organising (p. 121)
Collaboration (or 'working the system') (p. 121)
Campaigns and contest (p. 123)
Negotiation (p. 125)
Fun? (p. 125)
Broad-based organising (p. 125)
Points to ponder (p. 139)
Further reading (p. 139)
8 Advanced practice (p. 140)
Community economic development (p. 140)
Running a not-for-profit agency - the example of a Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) (p. 148)
The community worker as a manager in a large bureaucratic organisation (p. 149)
Cross-boundary and partnership working (p. 157)
Highly skilled work in difficult situations (p. 161)
Community development and community cohesion (p. 166)
Conclusion (p. 173)
Points to ponder (p. 174)
Further reading (p. 174)
9 Specialist community work (p. 175)
Types of community work (p. 175)
The specialist (sectoral) community work conundrum (p. 179)
Specialist sectoral community work - some examples (p. 180)
Community social work (p. 187)
Community work and community care (p. 189)
Communities of 'need' - some examples (p. 190)
Conclusion (p. 198)
Points to ponder (p. 199)
Further reading (p. 199)
10 Community work and public policy: towards comprehensive strategies (p. 200)
The People in Communities (PiC) Initiative and Communities First (p. 201)
Theorising comprehensive community work strategies (p. 208)
Community involvement and neighbourhood regeneration (p. 210)
Getting the detail right (p. 212)
Local Authority-wide community work strategies (p. 213)
Linking community development with support and prevention strategies (p. 214)
Conclusion - linking it all up (p. 214)
Points to ponder (p. 216)
Further reading (p. 216)
Appendix Requirements for a national/regional community work strategy (p. 217)
Bibliography (p. 222)
Index (p. 231)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

ALAN TWELVETREES has been a community worker, a community work lecturer, a manager of community workers, and a children and young people strategy manger. He has published widely in the fields of community work, community organizations and community economic development.