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Essentials of Social Work Management and Leadership: A Competency-Based Approach helps students not only build critical knowledge but also cultivate the unique skills that will help them develop into competent and successful managers and leaders. Experiential exercises, informative case studies, and carefully crafted assignments based on the 2015 Council on Social Work Education's (CSWE) Educational Policy Accreditation Standards (EPAS) show students how to apply key concepts to gain career success.Each chapter of the text combines knowledge with competency-building exercises that fit into a newly refined conceptual model of the material. The model places the 2015 CSWE EPAS into strategic categories according to orientation, helping readers better understand how each skill functions within the discipline and how collectively, they can support a thriving and effective social work practice. The text delivers excellent insight, opportunities for action, and material that inspires students to become effective, confident, and capable leaders.Essentials of Social Work Management and Leadership is well suited for courses in social work and nonprofit leadership and management at a specialized or advanced level. The text is co-sponsored by The Network for Social Work Management, an international organization focused on strengthening and advancing social work management within health and human services.

Essentials of Nonprofit Management and Leadership: A Skills-Based Approach equips readers with the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to serve as effective nonprofit leaders and advance human rights and social and economic justice. The book provides students with a strong foundation in professional values, knowledge development in leadership and management, and opportunities to develop their personal and professional abilities through skill-building activities.The text balances substantive content with hands-on experiential exercises and assignments to help students develop practical skillsets. It introduces theories and conceptual frameworks related to human behavior in organizational and social contexts. Equipped with this knowledge, future leaders are empowered to engage others, assess agency- and community-level concerns, intervene when problems occur, and evaluate the impacts of programs, interventions, and policies. Topics addressed within the text include personal communication, planning, program evaluation, budgeting, fund development, marketing, advocacy, and more.Essentials of Nonprofit Management and Leadership arms readers with a conceptual view of the roles of nonprofit leaders and critical skills for effective practice. It is an excellent resource for courses in nonprofit leadership and management.

Program Development, Grantwriting, and Implementation: From Advocacy to Outcomes provides readers with a contemporary guide to program development fundamentals and implementation. The text explains the full program planning process and outlines the roles that need to be filled. It also posits that advocacy is the foundation for modern program planning in the United States, especially in the wake of new civil rights movements, calls for anti-racist practices, disruptions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and more.Dedicated chapters cover assessing community strengths, program evaluation, budgeting, fund development, marketing, advocacy, and finding joy in the work. Throughout, Spotlight on Diversity, Difficulties and Joys, and Lessons from the Pandemic sections draw connections between key concepts and real-life challenges, opportunities, and events. A case study from ACH Child and Family Services in Fort Worth provides readers with a practical example of a successful grant and its application.Designed to equip readers with the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to develop programs that confront the problems in our society, Program Development, Grantwriting, and Implementation is an ideal resource for students and professionals in human services.

Program Development, Grantwriting, and Implementation: From Advocacy to Outcomes provides readers with a contemporary guide to program development fundamentals and implementation. The text explains the full program planning process and outlines the roles that need to be filled. It also posits that advocacy is the foundation for modern program planning in the United States, especially in the wake of new civil rights movements, calls for anti-racist practices, disruptions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and more.Dedicated chapters cover assessing community strengths, program evaluation, budgeting, fund development, marketing, advocacy, and finding joy in the work. Throughout, Spotlight on Diversity, Difficulties and Joys, and Lessons from the Pandemic sections draw connections between key concepts and real-life challenges, opportunities, and events. A case study from ACH Child and Family Services in Fort Worth provides readers with a practical example of a successful grant and its application.Designed to equip readers with the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to develop programs that confront the problems in our society, Program Development, Grantwriting, and Implementation is an ideal resource for students and professionals in human services.

The second edition of Essentials of Social Work Management and Leadership helps students not only build critical knowledge but also cultivate the unique skills that will help them develop into competent and successful managers and leaders. Experiential exercises, informative case studies, and carefully crafted assignments based on the 2022 Council on Social Work Education's (CSWE) Educational Policy Accreditation Standards (EPAS) show students how to apply key concepts to gain career success.Each chapter of the text combines knowledge with competency-building exercises that fit into a newly refined conceptual model of the material. The model places the 2022 EPAS into strategic categories according to orientation, helping readers better understand how each skill functions within the discipline and how collectively, they can support a thriving and effective social work practice. Robustly updated throughout, this edition incorporates the latest research and has an increased focus on social justice, diversity, and anti-racist issues.This text is well suited for courses in social work and nonprofit leadership and management at a specialized or advanced level.