Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Assets

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Preface. Introduction: Asset Building to Sustain Communities. I. INTRODUCTION TO RURAL SOCIAL WORK: FREDDIE L. AVANT. 1. Defining Rural for Social Work Practice and Research (Jackie Olaveson, Pat Conway, and Chad Shaver). 2. Social Welfare and People: From the Colonial Era to the Present (Paul H. Stuart). 3. Social Work: Reconceptualizing the Framework for Practice (Michael R. Daley and Freddie L. Avant). 4. is Real: Supporting Professional Practice through the Social Work Caucus and the NASW Professional Policy Statement for Social Work. (Sam Hickman). II. HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND RURAL ENVIRONMENTS: JUDITH A. DAVENPORT. 5. Strategies of Cooperation and Delivery of Human Services in Areas: Sharing Community Assets (Dario Menanteau-Horta). 6. Natural Helping Networks: Assets for Communities (Ted Watkins). 7. African Americans in Areas: Building on Assets from An Afrocentric Perspective. (Freddie L. Avant). 8. Life in A Colonia: Identifying Community Assets (Wilma Cordova). 9. Asset Building with Haitian Immigrants: A Psycho-Educational Group Intervention (Liddell L. Madden, Jay Bishop, and Alan B. Kirk). III. PRACTICE ISSUES IN RURAL CONTEXTS: SUSAN A. MURTY. 10. A Strategy for Uncovering, Accessing and Maximizing Assets and Strengths in Area Social Services (Shirley M. Haulotte and Suzanne Oliver). 11. Working with Mexican Immigrants in East Texas (Ruben Rodriguez, H. Stephen Cooper, and Linda Morales). 12. Using Wraparound to Build Communities of Care for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance and Their Families (Tamara S. Davis). 13. The Use of Asset-Based Community Development to Increase Youth Participation in Higher Education (Dennis L. Poole and Suzannah More). 14. An Asset-based Approach to Promoting Community Well-being in a County: Obstacles and Opportunities (Robin L. Ersing and Melanie D. Otis). 15. Community Development in an International Setting: The Role of Sustainable Agriculture in Social Work Practice (F. Matthew Schobert and Dale A. Barron). IV. POLICY ISSUES AFFECTING RURAL POPULATIONS: BARRY L. LOCKE. 16. Utilizing an Asset-Building Framework to Improve Policies for Communities: One Size Does Not Fit All Families (Sharon B. Templeman and Lynda Mitchell). 17. The Complex Challenges of Building Assets in Communities and Strategic Bridging Solutions (Kristen Nyman). 18. Charitable Choice, Social Workers, and Congregations: Partnering to Build Community Assets (Roger Aker and T. Laine Scales). 19. Living in Limbo: Homeless Families in America (Jim Winship). 20. Transportation to Work: Policy Implications for Welfare Reform in Areas (Kenneth Wedel and Fran Butler). 21. Voices from the Mountains: Living on and Past Welfare Reform (Barry L. Locke and Lucinda A. Potter). V. USING RESEARCH TO EVALUATE PRACTICE IN RURAL SETTINGS: DENNIS L. POOLE. 22. Mapping Community Assets: The Key to Effective Social Work (Susan Murty). 23. Asset Building in Communities through Participatory Research (Leela Thomas, Patricia Albaugh, and Bernard Albaugh). 24. Adults Who Lived in Out-of-Home-Care as Adolescents: A Qualitative Study (Pat Conway, Rick Robb, Tosha Apodaca, Sean M. Borzea, Chad Shaver, and Nancy Todd). 25. Evaluating Media Strategies In Communities: The Appalachian Domestic Violence Project (Glenn Sheilds, William King, Marian Williams, Sarah Chard, Steven Lab). 26. Individual Development Accounts in Communities: Implications for Research (Michal Grinstein-Weiss and Jami Curley). 27. If We Build It, Will They Come? A Case for Practice Based Research (H. Stephen Cooper and Linda Morales).

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