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Informationen zum Autor Melvin Delgado, PhD, Professor of Social Work & Co-Director, Center on Addictions Research and Services (CARS), Boston University School of Social Work. Dr. Delgado has an extensive practice and scholarly interest in the nation's urban centers with a specific focus on identifying and mobilizing community assets in service to these communities. Klappentext Urban youth friendships and community practice breaks new ground in identifying and capturing the importance of friendships and the role that community practitioners and scholars can play to enhance them. Zusammenfassung There is no denying that friendship, however narrow or broad the definition, is dynamic and highly responsive to socio-cultural and environmental factors. Urban Youth Friendships and Community Practice highlights the greater importance of friendships in circumstances where youth have been marginalized and have limited access to instrumental resources that restrict geographical mobility or curtail their movement to limited public spaces (in which they are validated, and even liked or admired). Youth friendships are not limited to peer-networks; they can cross other social divides and involve adults of all ages. Indeed, community practice and asset assessment approaches are increasingly focusing on the relevance of strong peer relationships and networks as strengths upon which to build. Friendships, therefore, are a community asset and as such could be included as a key aspect of community asset assessments and interventions. Community organizations, schools, religious institutions, and other less-formal groups provide practitioners with ample opportunities to foster urban youth friendships.This book seeks to accomplish four goals: (1) provide a state of knowledge on the definition, role, and importance of friendships in general and specifically on urban youth of color (African-American, Asia and Latinos); (2) draw implications for community practice scholarship and practice; (3) illustrate how friendships can be a focus of a community capacity enhancement assets paradigm through the use of case illustrations; and (4) provide a series of recommendations for how urban friendships can be addressed in graduate level social work curriculum but with implications for other helping professions. Urban Youth Friendships and Community Practice is a must-have for community practitioners, whether their focus be social work, recreation, education, planning, or out-of-school programming. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section I: Conceptual Foundation Chapter 1: Setting the Context Chapter 2: Urban Community Practice/Capacity Enhancement Chapter 3: Friendships Chapter 4: Urban Youth of Color Friendships Section II: Case Illustrations Chapter 5: Enhancement and Tapping of Friendships in Youth Development and Community-Based Interventions Chapter 6: Co-Production of Knowledge: Urban Youth of Color as Researchers of Friendships Section III: Reflections Chapter 7: Cross-Cutting Themes from Field Examples and Scholarly Literature Conclusion ...
