Delgado Baby Boomers of Color

Implications for Social Work Policy and Practice
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53842-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Melvin Delgado provides a comprehensive portrait of the status and unique assets of boomers of color

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delgado, Melvin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik, Theorie und Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments
Part 1. Setting the Context
1. Overview
2. Two Perspectives on Baby Boomers
3. Boomer Demographic Profile and Trends
4. A Demographic Focus on Baby Boomers of Color
5. Health Needs
6. Financial Indicators
Part 2. Cultural Assets
7. Baby Boomer Assets: A Conceptual Foundation
8. Family-Focused Assets
9. Neighborhood/Community-Focused Assets
Part 3. Implications for Policy
10. Classification of Asset-Driven Interventions
11. Policy, Practice, and Research Implications
Epilogue
References
Index

Leseproben

Read the second chapter, "Two Perspectives on Baby Boomers":

Über Autor(innen)

Melvin Delgado is codirector of the Center for Addictions Research and Services, chair of macro-practice, and professor of social work at the Boston University School of Social Work. He brings almost forty years of practice, research, and scholarship focused on Puerto Rican and other Latino groups in the United States. Bilingual and bicultural, he has focused his professional and academic career on developing urban-based outreach and service delivery models that are culturally competent, stressing participatory democratic principles, and tapping cultural strengths and assets. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Latino Small Businesses and the American Dream: Community Social Work Practice and Economic and Social Development and Social Work Practice with Latinos: A Cultural Assets Paradigm and Social Work Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Youth in the United States.