ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses appropriate methods for a community intervention based on principles of organization development where the decision body is an ad hoc group convened for the express purpose of addressing a problem common to a significant segment of the community or the entire community, The intervention strategy has been developed over a period of 7 years in a variety of settings in a number of states and local governments, It has proven an effective means for creating a broad base of consensus on ways to address and implement difficult and often conflictual community issues. For example, the strategy has been used to develop a state growth-strategies law, consolidate a city government and a county government, develop policies for addressing urban violence, site a regional water reservoir, and identify public and private community investment strategies.
