Hispanic adolescents represent a disproportionate number of youth living in urban
communities. These youth confront significant social problems that increase their likelihood …

In this chapter we explore the main macro influences on social work and the social
professions in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and consider some of the …

This title was first published in 2000: The second edition of Social Work as Community
Development is thoroughly revised and updated taking into account lessons from community …

Support networks are both one of the great tools and one of the major challenges for social
work when dealing with situations of social exclusion. The multidimensional nature of the …

Trying to understand how the world looks through the eyes of individuals and groups and
how it shapes the ways they think and act is something social workers do all the time. It is …

Understanding and positively impacting social networks is core to social work practice and
research. As a research method, social network analysis provides an important mechanism …

This article presents a community-based action research project in a low-income
neighborhood in Hong Kong that adopted the Working from the Ground Up (WFGU) model …

This article explores the roles of Ego social networks for community development in the Tullo
community of southern Ethiopia. By employing qualitative research methods, data were …

Multi-sector collaborations are challenging to establish and difficult to sustain; they require
considerable commitment of time and resources from participants and supporting …

ANOTACIJA Nepaisant gausių mokslinių tyrimų apie bendruomenes, jų organizacijas,
egzistuoja poreikis ir toliau jas analizuoti, siekiant atsakyti į klausimą, kokią įtaką …