Community psychology can be seen as a vigorous, action-oriented movement. It is, however, still in the developmental stage characterized by the continued attempts to specify the goals and parameters of the field. The growing paraprofessional movement, shares similar origins to community psychology and appears to provide answers to some of the questions raised about the accomplishments of the practitioners of community psychology. Some of the stated goals of communit.y psychology are briefly reviewed and the paraprofessional movement is described in greater detail in an attempt to demonstrate the relationship between the accomplishments and trends of the paraprofemional movement and the goals espoused by community psychologists.The community psychology movement has, from its inception, been a pragmatic, action-oriented movement. It arose in response to serious concerns about the scope and quality of mental health services and delivery systems in this country. Because of this action-oriented, or "proactive" (Iscoe, 1974) orientation and because of the feeling that community psychologists possess a strong mandate, those involved in the community psychology movement have been very selfconscious of its direction and accomplishments. Ten years after the Boston Conference (1965) , community psychologists are still faced with such questions from their colleagues as Bla.u's :