Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services

Without understanding the relationship among three critical components of a social system involved in change, efforts to intervene are haphazard

Experimentation in controversial areas leads a voluntary agency to new relationships with poor clients who become participants in forming agency policies

Factors related to finances, tradition, and institutional inertia prevent a full-scale university commitment to the nonagricultural problems of a community

Even if rural communities were motivated to resolve their crime problems, they do not have the necessary funds, manpower, or skills to do so

Examination of the plan finds the focus still on the poor person and his presumed shortcomings, not on the societal and economic causes of poverty