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'''Community-based program design''' is a social method for designing programs that enables social service providers, organizers, designers and evaluators to serve specific communities in their own environment. This program design method depends on the participatory approach of community development often associated with [[community practice|community-based social work]], and is often employed by [[Community organizing|community organizations]].<ref name="Delgado">{{Cite book|url=http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195112481.001.0001/acprof-9780195112481|title=Social Work Practice in Nontraditional Urban Settings|last=Delgado|first=Melvin|language=en|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195112481|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195112481.001.0001|year=1999}}</ref> From this approach, program designers assess the needs and resources existing within a community, and, involving community stakeholders in the process, attempt to create a sustainable and equitable solution to address the community's needs.

Similar to traditional program design, community-based program design often utilizes a range of tools and models which are meant to enhance the efficacy and outcomes of the program’sprogram's design. The difference between traditional design and community-based design, when using these tools, is in the dynamics of the relationship between the designers, the participants, and the community as a whole. It evolved from the [[Charity Organization Society]] (COS) and the [[Settlement movement|settlement house movements]].

One advantage is a learning experience between a consumer and a social services provider. One disadvantage is a limited availability of resources. The models that can be used for it are the [[Social ecological model|social-ecological model]], which provides a framework for program design, the [[logic model]], which is a graphical depiction of logical relationships between the resources, activities, outputs and outcomes of a program, the [[social action model]], whose objectives are to recognize the change around a community in order to preserve or improve standards, understand the social action process/model is a conceptualization of how directed change takes place, and understand how the social action model can be implemented as a successful community problem solving tool, and [[Program evaluation and review technique (PERT)|program evaluation]], which involves the ongoing systematic assessment of community-based programs.