Homan, an organizer, lobbyist, consultant, and social work and human services teacher who has developed and directed human services programs, shows students in helping professions how to promote community change. He discusses the need for community change, how change activities relate to the change agent's personal and professional life, and a theoretical framework for change; the process of promoting change, including getting people involved, planning, raising resources, and taking action; and three common areas of change: enhancing the quality of neighborhoods, increasing the effectiveness of health and human services organizations, and lobbying. This edition emphasizes social justice and human rights; includes end-of-chapter stories; discusses e-organizing, mobilizing, and advocacy related to new technology; and has new techniques for fundraising and resource development, more on developments in the health and human services professions and models of community practice, reexamined aspects of social capital, and new topics like dialogue and deliberation, population-focused funds, and community benefit agreements, as well as updated data, information on new regulations, and innovative methods. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)