This report discusses and analyzes federal policies and practices with regard to citizen participation and neighborhood representation in community-based federal programs. Material for the study was gathered through personal interviews with federal management personnel in the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Department of Labor, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. All personnel were based in the San Francisco regional office of their respective agencies and were connected to programs which operated at the city level. Section 1 discusses definitions of citizen, of participation, of neighborhood, and of representation. Section 2 examines federal practices with regard to participation in three categories of activity: agencies having legislative or administrative policy calling for citizen participation, the Community Action and Model Cities programs, and agency programs taking cognizance of Community Action or Model City vehicles in order to secure participation. Section 3 comments on the current state of citizen participation policy, as well as recommendations for policy development. (Author/JG).
"This report discusses and analyzes federal policies and practices with regard to citizen participation and neighborhood representation in community-based federal programs. Material for the study was gathered through personal interviews with federal management personnel in the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Department of Labor, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. All personnel were based in the San Francisco regional office of their respective agencies and were connected to programs which operated at the city level. Section 1 discusses definitions of citizen, of participation, of neighborhood, and of representation. Section 2 examines federal practices with regard to participation in three categories of activity: agencies having legislative or administrative policy calling for citizen participation, the Community Action and Model Cities programs, and agency programs taking cognizance of Community Action or Model City vehicles in order to secure participation. Section 3 comments on the current state of citizen participation policy, as well as recommendations for policy development. (Author/JG)."@en
"This report is intended to complement a related publication that examines citizen participation from the perspective of federal policy and the managers of that policy. In contrast to that approach, this report examines citizen participation from the local perspective in order to provide a feel for what citizen involvement in decision making is really like at the local level. Seven federally sponsored city or county-based public agencies were selected for observation, including 1) a Neighborhood Health Services Center, 2) a Community Action Agency, 3) a Legal Services Center, 4) a Model City Agency, 5) a Tenant's Council in a public housing project, 6) an Urban Renewal Project Area Committee, and 7) a community Mental Health Center. These local agencies represent programs sponsored by the same four major federal agencies examined in the related report. Rather than presenting separate case histories of each local agency, the report analyzes the seven agencies according to common categories of interest, including representation, aspects of participation, decision making, relationships with other agencies, aspects of minority community development, and federal relationships. (Author/JG)."@en
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