Main description:

The updated Third Edition of Developing Occupation-Centered Programs with the Community continues to provide an excellent step-by-step workbook approach to designing and implementing a program for the community.

Inside Developing Occupation-Centered Programs with the Community, Third Edition, Dr. Linda Fazio includes the importance of community asset identification and development toward sustainability. New and updated content on evidence-based practice; program evaluation at multiple levels; funding; non-profits and social entrepreneurship. Additionally, new trending issues of interest to programmers include human trafficking, post-combat programming for military veterans and their families, arts-based programming for all ages, and programming to meet current needs of the well-elderly.

Features of the Third Edition:

Workbook format offers the instructor and the student options for how to use the text in a classroom or independently in an internship or residency
The order of the programming process, chapter content order, summaries and format of exercises has been retained to ease transition for instructors using previous editions of the text
The program "story" section has been retained along with author's notes on what is currently happening with these programs and other related topic areas
New content has been added in program sustainability, the assessment and building of community assets, and consensus organizing in communities
More developed content is offered about the structure and function of non-profit organizations as well as the role and function of the social entrepreneur who does programming for these organizations
Ancillary PowerPoint presentations follow the process for use in a lecture format
Instructors in educational settings can visit www.efacultylounge.com for additional materials to be used for teaching in the classroom.

Developing Occupation-Centered Programs with the Community, Third Edition is an excellent introductory tool and is a valuable resource for occupational therapy students at all levels, as well as experienced practitioners in a clinical setting.

Contents:

Dedication

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Preface

Introduction

Part 1 Building a Foundation Chapter 1 Understanding Community

Chapter 2 Practicing Occupation in the Community

Chapter 3 Program Design and Development: What Skills Will I Need?

Chapter 4 Getting Started: Where Do Ideas Come From? Selecting a Population for Programming

Chapter 5 Identifying Trends and Forecasting Futures

Part II Developing Your Program: Design and Planning PhaseChapter 6 Developing a Timeline for Program Design, Planning, Preparation, Implementation, and Evaluation

Chapter 7 Developing the Profiles of Your Population and the Community, Researching
the Supporting Literature, Finding Evidence, and Identifying Experts: The Beginning of the Assessment of "Need"

Chapter 8 Continuing the Needs Assessment in the Community

Chapter 9 Identifying and Building Assets, Developing Community Capacity, Knowing
Your Stakeholders, and Sustaining Programming

Chapter 10 Developing and Finalizing the Projected Impact and Outcomes for Your Population, Developing Program-Specific Goals and Objectives, and Choosing
a Guiding Theory

Part III Developing the Program: Preparation and Implementation PhaseChapter 11 Supporting Your Programming: Staffing and Personnel

Chapter 12 Supporting Your Programming: Space, Furnishings, Equipment, and Supplies

Chapter 13 Costs of Programming and Projected Funding Needs

Chapter 14 Funding Your Program

Chapter 15 Promoting Your Program: Marketing

Part IV Review and Evaluation PhaseChapter 16 Program Evaluation: Measuring Programming Goals, Objectives, Outcomes,
and Impact

Part V Programming Stories: Program Examples for Children, Adolescents, Adults, and Older Adults Chapter 17 Programming to Support Engagement in Meaningful Occupation and Balance for the Disenfranchised and Homeless: The Development of a Community Programming Proposal

Chapter 18 Intervention and Support Programming in Day Camps, Sleep-Away Camps,
and "Adventures"

Chapter 19 Prevention and Wellness Programming Within Existing or Newly Formed
Clubs: Collaboration and Partnering With Stakeholders

Chapter 20 Shelter Programming for Homeless Persons With HIV/AIDS and Mental
Illness: Exploring Skills and Knowledge Supporting Employment

Chapter 21 Programming for the Homeless Adolescent in Transitional Shelter:
Filmmaking for High School Credit

Chapter 22 Promotion of Health, Well-Being, and Community: A Culturally Relevant Intergenerational Program for Older Adults Living in a Senior-Care Facility

Part VI What Now? Responding to Trending Issues: Stories in the MakingChapter 23 Health Promotion and Wellness Programming for Older Adults Living in the Community: Sexuality, Sexual Functioning, and Intimacy

Chapter 24 Human Trafficking and Exploitation: Considerations for Community Programming

Chapter 25 Exploring Programming for Returning Combat Veterans and Families of
Veterans

Chapter 26 Community-Based Arts: Opportunities for Occupation-Centered
Practitioners

Index