Creating Small Scale Social Programs - Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation

This book is geared towards designing programmes to meet specific social needs and organizing the relevant community and social service resources to implement them. Structured around a single case study, the book clearly illustrates how to effectively plan, implement and evaluate a small scale social programme. Each step in the planning process is introduced and described in a way that allows the reader to vicariously participate in the evolution of the programme. Useful charts, time lines and resource lists are included and can be easily referenced and utilized.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

An Overview of Planning the Small Scale Program
Planning to Plan
Assembling the Tools
Meet the Planners from LIFT, Let Infants and Families Thrive
Trouble Shooting
Describing the Full Dimensions of a Problem
Magnifying the Gap
The Program Design Process
Microscoping
Translating Goals into Small, Systematic, Sequential Tasks and Setting Up Systems to Accomplish Them
Acting and Reacting
The Program in Action
Follow-Ups and Evaluations
Closing One Loop and Opening up the Next

Zusammenfassung

This book is geared towards designing programmes to meet specific social needs and organizing the relevant community and social service resources to implement them. Structured around a single case study, the book clearly illustrates how to effectively plan, implement and evaluate a small scale social programme. Each step in the planning process is introduced and described in a way that allows the reader to vicariously participate in the evolution of the programme. Useful charts, time lines and resource lists are included and can be easily referenced and utilized.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Barbara Schram, Barbara A. Schram
• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 26.11.1997
• EAN: 9780803974340
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-7434-0
• Seiten: 248
• Gewicht: 450 g
• Serien: Sage Human Services Guides; Sage Human Services Guides
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Sozialpädagogik, Soziale Arbeit; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politisches System; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social Work, Evaluation;Social Work Administration