A Community Concerns Report Method for Local Agenda Setting

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Abstract
The strategy of choice regularly employed in addressing both social and economic problems of rural America has been technology transfer. External experts have developed models and provided them to rural residents through a variety of educational media. But with current conditions, this form of intervention does not appear to be working. This study uses key informant and survey methodology to examine the attitudes and readiness for technology transfer among residents of one particularly hard hit community and concludes that the pervading depression and sense of hopelessness counters the conditions required for this strategy to be successful. A return to an earlier community development model with emphasis on local development and high interpersonal interaction appears to be well suited to helping solve current rural problems.

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