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Tice, C., Long, D., & Cox, L. (2020). Macro social work practice: Advocacy in action. SAGE Publications, Inc.
Chapter 7: Social Planning
This chapter describes the process for social planning including various advocacy models and strategic planning.
Review Chapter 6: Exploring the Concepts of Communities and Community Practice
This chapter defines aspects of various geographic and shared or nonplace communities and explains the function of communities and their role in consumers’ lives. Reviews the history of community organizing, describes and applies various theoretical orientations and roles of social work in the context of community practice.

Mulroy, E. (2008). Community needs assessment. In Encyclopedia of Social Work. Oxford University Press.
This is the entry on Community Needs Assessment from the Encyclopedia of Social Work. Written by two pioneers in macro social work practice, this piece is relevant in spite of its age.

Morris, Z. A., Dragone, E., Peabody, C., & Carr, K. (2020). Isolation in the midst of a pandemic: social work students rapidly respond to community and field work needs. Social Work Education, 39(8), 1127–1136.
This article examines how graduate social work students in the United States created a project called GiftsofGab.org, which is a volunteer call-based companion coordination project that connects social work students with those in need of social interaction. This is just one example of the type of project you might undertake for this course.

Nelson, M., Gere, C., Cooper, A., Thackray, V.G., & Aron, A.R. (2025). The wins of the grassroots climate movement in the University of California. Frontiers in Education, 10.
This article is a community case study that discusses the essential role of a student organization at UC San Diego in setting climate policy for the entire university.

Christens, B. D., Gupta, J., & Speer, P. W. (2021). Community organizing: Studying the development and exercise of grassroots power. Journal of Community Psychology, 49(8), 3001–3016.
This is the introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Community focused on community organizing. It lays out important definitions and briefly describes the work that appears in the issue which provides an overview of community organizing generally along with some examples of current research on the topic.

Pehkonen, S. (n.d.). 25 email etiquette rules & tips every professional needs to know. Maestro Labs.

FOX News Network. (n.d.). Minneapolis-St. Paul. Fox News.

Vacchiano, A. (2022, October 18). Minneapolis city subcommittee approves police request to contract social workers. Fox News.

CCX Media Community News. (2024, June 17). Golden Valley PD's embedded social worker puts unique experience to work [Video]. YouTube.
Video from one of the 45 Hennepin County, Minnesota social workers embedded in police departments.

Sister song. (n.d.). Sister Song.

NU Library list of Social Work Journals