EDRD 3500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Community Building, Midnight Basketball, Logic Model
25 Oct 2016
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The problem services that were developed were often inadequate and did not meet the needs of the community. Plans offer strategies to assimilate the future to the past making the future less uncertain. Planning: is a process, often political process that brings together (sometimes under pressure) different interests groups and stakeholder groups to work for a common goal/s. Planning turns complex goals into practical judgments that inform decisions for future action. The practice of planning is an endeavor that has been built upon concepts and traditions of a variety of disciplines. However, underlying most of these definitions are three core ideas: the mobilization of resources, an attempt to achieve goals or a desired state, a process (for moving the goals forward) Planning is a process, not an activity. Using the process - sets out to modify and control environment in pursuit of multiple/ diverse goals. Process, which links goals, objectives, data collection and analysis to actions.
