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Author McCashen, Wayne, author

Title Communities of hope : a strengths-based resource for building community / Wayne McCashen
Published Bendigo, Vic. : St Luke's Innovative Resources, 2004
Bendigo, Vic.toria, Australia : St Luke's Innovative Resources, [2004]
©2004

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Description xiii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Series Innovative resources
Innovative resources
Contents Foreword / Bishop Andrew W. Curnow -- About Anglicare Australia and St. Luke's Anglicare -- Preface. Revitalising community and drediscovering hope -- Origins and purpose: a background -- Part 1. The strengths approach: a philosophy for change -- Part 2. Building communities through a strengths approach -- Part 3. Building communities of hope: a workshop -- Workshop Day One. Unit 1. Constraints to growth and change -- Unit 2. Bringing hope: conditions for change and power-with -- Unit 3. Processes for bringing hope -- Workshop Day Two. Unit 4. Skills for building hope -- Unit 5. Community, community building and their importance -- Workshop Day Three. Unit 6. Skills for consultation and community capacity building -- Unit 7. Supporting and sustaining change and participation -- Handout Masters (39 handouts) -- Additional questions for community building
Summary Communities of hope describes a strengths approach to community capacity building. This approach is concerned with the building of a community's own capacity and potential
Analysis Urban communities
Rural communities
Community
Social ethics
Notes Commissioned by Anglicare Australia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 191)
Subject Communities.
Social ethics.
Church and social problems.
Church work.
Author Anglicare Australia, host institution
St. Luke's Anglicare (Bendigo, Vic.), issuing body
ISBN 9781920945008 (paperback)
1920945008 (paperback)