ABSTRACT
This chapter explores community practice from the intervention plan through the termination, and evaluation and follow-up phases. It discusses practice models, which are based on theoretical perspectives, for community interventions and provides an overview of social work interventions for communities. The chapter focuses on the final phase of community practice—the termination process and the evaluation and follow-up processes. It discusses the most recognized models for community intervention: Planning/Policy, community capacity development, and social advocacy, as well as the ways in which they can be mixed in practice. The economic changes have brought empty boulevards, an abandoned train station, empty high-rises, shuttered storefronts, and semideserted neighborhoods to Detroit, Michigan. The process of community asset development may involve community meetings to develop a local vision and the strategies to implement this vision. Community organization can include accepting and working with the existing power relationships or consensus organizing, and challenging the existing power relationship or direct action organizing.
