New Arenas for Community Social Work Practice with Urban Youth

New Arenas for Community Social Work Practice with Urban Youth

Author: Melvin Delgado

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780231114639

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This book demonstrates the potential of after-school activities ranging from from sports to the visual and performing arts and the humanities to transform young lives. Case studies of exemplary organizations and innovative communities within urban centers throughout the U.S. round out the work.


New Arenas for Community Social Work Practice with Urban Youth

New Arenas for Community Social Work Practice with Urban Youth

Author: Melvin Delgado

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780231114622

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This book demonstrates the potential of after-school activities ranging from from sports to the visual and performing arts and the humanities to transform young lives. Case studies of exemplary organizations and innovative communities within urban centers throughout the U.S. round out the work.


Community Practice and Urban Youth

Community Practice and Urban Youth

Author: Melvin Delgado

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-30

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1317406311

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Community Practice and Urban Youth is for graduate level students in fields that offer youth studies and community practice courses. Practitioners in these fields, too, will find the book particularly useful in furthering the integration of social justice as a conceptual and philosophical foundation. The use of food, environmental justice, and immigrant-rights and the book’s focus on service-learning and civic engagement involving these three topics offers an innovative approach for courses.


Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice

Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice

Author: Melvin Delgado

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-02-07

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0199735840

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Needs assessments identify the needs for services, answering questions about who needs these services and in what priority. Asset assessments focuses on existing resources; combing both needs and asset assesments helps find the gaps in these services and is useful to organizations and communities.


Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context

Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context

Author: Melvin Delgado

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1999-09-16

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0198029020

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Community social work practice based on a capacity enhancement model offers tremendous potential for unifying communities consisting of groups from very different cultural backgrounds, and in the process of doing so, make physical changes in the community. Community Social Work Practice in An Urban Context aims to teach graduate students with an emphasis on community and urban social work how to create positive community environments in marginalized urban-based communities. The use of murals, gardens, playgrounds, and sculptures, for example provide social workers with an opportunity to identify, engage, and plan services with communities. These projects, in turn, are based upon a community's strengths and represent an effort at developing a community's capacity to help itself with assistance from professionals.


Youth-led Health Promotion in Urban Communities

Youth-led Health Promotion in Urban Communities

Author: Melvin Delgado

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780742561144

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The introduction of innovative social paradigms that stress community-participation, community-focused empowerment, assets, social and economic justice themes, and in the case of youth, civic participation, represents one of the outcomes of this questioning and bodes well for current and future generations. The subject of how best to address the current and future health needs of this country's urban marginalized comunities is one that has also received considerable attention in academic, policy, and practice arenas in the past decade. A variety of models have been put forth to achieve the goal of health in these communities. One of the most promising recommendations has been the use of health promotion as a vehicle for reaching and empowering communities of color in both rural and urban America. The youth-led environmental justice movement, as it will be addressed in various sections of this book, is one of the latest and most promising approaches towards health promotion that is grass-roots and community participatory based. Youth-led health promotion represents an emerging field with tremendous implications for addressing the health needs of marginalized urban youth of color in the United States.


Music, Song, Dance, and Theatre

Music, Song, Dance, and Theatre

Author: Melvin Delgado

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0190642165

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The performing arts is an emerging area of youth community practice that has tremendous potential for reaching and positively transforming urban youth lives and to do so in a socially just manner.


Youth-Led Community Organizing

Youth-Led Community Organizing

Author: Melvin Delgado

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0195182766

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Youth-led organizing is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media. Delgado and Staples have produced the first comprehensive study of this dynamic field. Their well-organized book takes an important step toward bridging the gap between academic knowledge and community practice in this growing area.