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This book urges professionals who work with urban youth to develop or rediscover innovative, capacity-enhancing, community-based approaches for engaging young people in activities that systematically build on their talents and energy. Delgado argues that these interventions must be grounded in the community and conceptualized and implemented by the community in order for the youths to become potential community assets rather than a drain on the family and community.
Price: $38.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
30 March 2000
ISBN: 9780231114639
Format: Paperback
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The author provides insights into successful intervention strategies, filling a neglected area in the literature of community social work practice.... A useful primer for social workers interested in reconnecting our presence to the 'real world'of neighborhood and community, a world where social work practitioners worked in the past, and should be engaged in the future.
Melvin Delgado is professor of social work and chair of the macropractice at Boston University. His previous books include Community Social Work Practice in the Urban Context, Social Work Practice in Nontraditional Settings, Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos, Social Services in Latino Communities, and Latino Elders in the Twenty-first Century.