This book demonstrates the potential of after-school activities ranging from from sports to the visual and performing arts and the humanities to transform young

Community Practice and Urban Youth is for graduate level students in fields that offer youth studies and community practice courses. Practitioners in these fiel

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Community social work practice based on a capacity enhancement model offers tremendous potential for unifying communities consisting of groups from very differe

The introduction of innovative social paradigms that stress community-participation, community-focused empowerment, assets, social and economic justice themes,