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With the rise of school shootings and the recent March for Our Lives movement, Urban Youth Trauma focuses on the timely and important topic of urban violence and guns, while also addressing intervention strategies for social workers and counselors.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I: Context Setting
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2: Definition of Trauma and Urban Trauma
Chapter 3: Demographics and Urban Youth of Color
Chapter 4: The Extent of the Problem: Urban Trauma Related
Statistics
Part II: Foundation for Urban Youth Community Interventions
Chapter 5: Guiding Principles and Values
Chapter 6: Community Capacity Enhancement/Nontraditional Settings
Chapter 7: Intersectionality and Urban Youth of Color
Part III: Urban Community Interventions
This section will specifically focus on community intervention that have particular appeal to youth of color and community institutions. It is important to note that each of these chapters will have case illustrations to concretize key concepts raised in the previous two sections. It is important that community youth have a wide range of choices as to projects because of a range of issues, talents, and needs. This section will provide readers with a range of projects that illustrate the central thrust of this proposed book. Not every organization can or will provide a range of projects. However, collectively there may be a comprehensive system that can be put in place over a period of time to take into account local circumstances and demographics. Urban communities with high numbers of youth who are undocumented will emphasize certain projects over others, for example.
Chapter 8: Art, Murals, and Healing Community Gardens
Chapter 9: Social Justice Activism
Chapter 10: Houses of Worship
Chapter 11: Citizen Journalism and Photovoice
tChapter 12: Recommendations
Epilogue
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Dr. Melvin Delgado, M.S.W, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Work at Boston University School of Social Work. He is the former Chair of Macro Practice. He brings over 40 years of practice, research, and scholarship focused on urban population groups, with the Latinx community being a specific focus. Dr. Delgado is bilingual and bicultural, born and raised in New York City (South Bronx) and has focused his professional and academic career on developing urban-based outreach, research, and service delivery models stressing participatory democratic principles, and tapping cultural strengths and community assets. Dr. Delgado's has addressed a variety of social issues and needs, and published numerous articles and over 30 books on urban community practice topics. He is currently the Series Editor on Social Justice and Youth Community Practice, Oxford University Press.
Zusammenfassung
With the rise of school shootings and the recent March for Our Lives movement, Urban Youth Trauma focuses on the timely and important topic of urban violence and guns, while also addressing intervention strategies for social workers and counselors.
