Increasing Service User Participation in Local Planning

Judith M. Dunlop (MSW, University of Windsor; PhD Memorial University of Newfoundland) is Professor Emerita in the School of Social Work, Kings University College at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. She has taught community organization and development at both undergraduate and graduate levels across Canada and the United States. She has also worked as a community planner and research consultant on projects in public health, child welfare, neighborhood regeneration, and service user/service provider planning groups.Michael J. Holosko (MSW, University of Toronto; PhD University of Pittsburgh) is the Pauline M. Berger Professor of Family and Child Welfare at The University of Georgia, School of Social Work. He has taught in schools of social work, nursing, public administration, and applied social science in Canada, the United States, Hong Kong, Sweden, Australia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He also works as a consultant to a variety of health and human service organizations and industries in the areas of program evaluation, organizational development, leadership, visioning, and organizational alignment.

• Introduction Part I. Service User Participation Part II. The CDPM Model 1. Planning Step 1: Define Stakeholder Participation 2. Planning Step 2: Build Mission and Purpose 3. Planning Step 3: Identify Community Strengths 4. Planning Step 4: Identify Community Needs Using EID 5. Planning Step 5: Identify Services and Set Priorities Using EID 6. Planning Step 6: Plan Service Using EID 7. Planning Step 7: Decide on Intervention and Sponsors 8. Planning Step 8: Develop Joint Proposals Supplementary Readings Abbreviations and Acronyms Glossary: Commonly Used Terms for the CDPM