Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context: The Potential of a Capacity-Enhancement Perspective

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Oxford University Press, 16/09/1999 - 288 páginas
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.
 

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Section I SETTING THE CONTEXT
1
Section II MURALS GARDENS PLAYGROUNDS AND SCULPTURES
73
Section III APPLICATION OF THE FRAMEWORK TO PRACTICE AND LESSONS LEARNED
131
References
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