New Arenas for Community Social Work Practice with Urban Youth: Use of the Arts, Humanities, and Sports

Melvin Delgado

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Paper, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11463-9
$32.50 / £22.50

March, 2000
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11462-2
$90.00 / £62.00

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.

Related Subjects

• Social Work

About the Author

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.

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