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Community Planning and Community Problem Solving: Past, Present, and Future

Once a promising arena for social work practice, local planning councils were centers for community-wide planning efforts. This paper discusses the history of local planning councils and gives reasons for their decline in the past two decades. The role of health and welfare planning is analyzed in relation to the United Way system of federated fund raising in which councils have been a major subsystem, and research findings are presented from a larger study of the United Way nationwide. The discussion concludes with consideration of five current models of community planning and community problem solving and argues for more social work involvement in these activities.