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Peer reviewedHoefer, Richard – Social Work, 2005
Because social policy making continues to devolve to the state level, social workers should understand how advocacy and policy making occur at that level. Interest groups active in the human services arena were surveyed and data were used to test a model of interest group effectiveness in four states. The independent variables were amount of…
Descriptors: Social Work, Public Policy, State Programs, Organizational Effectiveness
Miner, Edwin J.; Jacobsen, Mike – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1990
Discusses using social-work educational methods to organize the New York Rural Human Services Coalition, when public policy is increasingly urban oriented. Describes historical framework and state institutional structure of services. Describes organization to secure rural perspectives in human-services delivery. Describes community organization…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Action, Community Services, Human Services
