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Direct linkHarrison, Ursula; Ollis, Tracey – Studies in Continuing Education, 2023
Neighbourhood Houses in Australia are community place-based organisations that provide education, support services, and develop responses to local issues with local communities. The practices within Neighbourhood Houses are informed by community development. Yet knowledge, understanding and practices of community development vary across the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Community Development, Place Based Education
McDaniel, Lynda – Appalachia, 2000
R. Benjamin Wiley has led the Greater Erie Community Action Committee (GECAC) in Erie, Pennsylvania, since 1969, creating a wide range of human services programs. His passion for education is reflected in the GECAC Learning Center, which offers numerous training and educational programs for residents of all ages, and in the GECAC Community Charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Community Action, Community Centers, Community Development
PDF pending restorationDepartment of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. Project Share. – 1978
This monograph discusses how to bring about changes and reforms in the area of human services. The introduction defines human services and briefly discusses some reform movements and whether or not viable change methods are available. Section I discusses the roles of various change participants including the change agent, lobbyist, ombudsman,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation
Couto, Richard A. – 1999
This book explores relationships among democracy, social capital, and community-based mediating structures, focusing on Appalachia because of the obvious failures of market capitalism there. It suggests that mediating structures protect communities from the savage side of market capitalism and promote the democratic prospect by increasing and…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Community Action, Community Development, Community Organizations
Download full textCasale, Ellen – 1989
This manual collects experiences of successful linkage programs to demonstrate the promise of linkage and to show its limits and risks. It is intended to help communities assess the capacity of linkage to meet their needs and evaluate the considerable commitment this strategy requires. (In linkage programs, developers who receive community…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, City Government, Community Change, Community Cooperation
Aspen Systems Corp., Germantown, MD. – 1981
This Project SHARE bibliography lists 43 documents that are representative of the literature concerning the effects of neighborhood consensus on human services delivery. It is divided into three sections: abstracts, an alphabetical list of personal or corporate authors, and a title index. The abstracts are preceded by citation data to aid in…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administrator Guides, Annotated Bibliographies, Community Control
