As hospital stays shrink and community residents demand more say in their health and wellness, new models for community practice emerge. This book is the culmination of an effort to provide one of those models. After working as a community health practitioner in many settings and striving to teach community health students at various levels, I have come to this book. It is a practical manual for the community practitioner. Although there is a strong conceptual framework and research studies are presented, the basic mission of this book is to help community practitioners practice. This book uses a unique holistic/wellness view of community practice with clients as full partners. Clients are viewed as whole persons and experts in their own wellness who collaborate with community practitioners to set goals, promote health, enhance wellness, and evaluate progress toward their goals. Although Healthy 2010 goals are provided, it is clients, not practitioners, who must decide which goals they wish to pursue. It is the practitioners' role to facilitate client dreams and goals. Giving up the expert role to work on one's own wellness is also unique. To role model wellness for clients, and to allow clients to make their own informed decisions (even when we disagree) is challenging.