The Impact of Community Work -

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Résumé :
This book provides essential practical guidance for professionals and pre-qualifying students on how to gather and generate evidence of the impact of projects in the community. It includes case studies from a diverse range of community settings and provides easy to implement ideas, practical tools and examples of effective methods to demonstrate the impact of community work. Considering evaluation and the complex processes of evidence gathering, it gives guidance on how to present findings to different audiences, ways to implement different methods and how to demonstrate the scale, quality and significance of impact.

Biographie:
Karen McArdle has worked in the community development field for over 30 years and taught evaluation to professionals across multiple community contexts. Kirsty Forrester has worked extensively as a community learning and development worker in local authority, third sector, social work and health settings. Catherine McKay has worked for 37 years in Community Learning and Development at local and national policy levels across Scotland. Ed Garrett combines an academic background in research and teaching with over fifteen years' experience as a community development worker in the voluntary sector. Sue Briggs is a local authority development officer with experience of managing quality improvement approaches, professional development and community learning development practice.

Sommaire:
This book provides essential practical guidance for professionals and pre-qualifying students on how to gather and generate evidence of the impact of projects in the community. It includes case studies from a diverse range of community settings and provides easy to implement ideas, practical tools and examples of effective methods to demonstrate the impact of community work. Considering evaluation and the complex processes of evidence gathering, it gives guidance on how to present findings to different audiences, ways to implement different methods and how to demonstrate the scale, quality and significance of impact....