Street Practice

Changing the Lens on Poverty and Public Assistance
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-26860-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

Reihe: Solving Social Problems

Presenting recent studies of non-profit organizations involved in poverty relief services in New York City in comparison with programmes in existence across the US, Street Practice provides a front-line, ground-level perspective on innovative research practices designed to solve community problems. It explores the manner in which organizations bridge the gap between research and policy advocacy, with an account of the ways in which research contributes to alleviating or solving a community problem, as well as details on successes and failures of advocacy work, problems and limitations of their research, funding constraints and political resistance. As such, this book not only offers compelling examples of social change in action, but also serves to introduce models for research and policy advocacy that can be applied similarly in other urban areas. Adopting a case-based learning approach that enables readers to better understand the dynamic process of research and policy advocacy, this innovative book will appeal to those with interests in poverty, homelessness, policy advocacy, social work and social change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcneil, Lori

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Exploring Research and Policy Advocacy on the Ground; Chapter 2 Creating Change in Coalition: The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Lori McNeil, Bich Pham; Chapter 3 Building Power for Low Income New Yorkers: Community Voices Heard, Lori McNeil, Sondra Youdelman; Chapter 4 Taking Advocacy to the People: Homelessness Outreach and Prevention Project; Chapter 5 Reframing the Politics of Hunger and Poverty: The New York City Coalition Against Hunger, Joel Berg, Kerry Birnbach, Theresa Hassler; Chapter 6 Don't Talk About Us, Talk With Us: Picture the Homeless, Lynn Lewis, Lori McNeil; Chapter 7 Toward a Social Change Framework;

Über Autor(innen)

Lori McNeil is Director of Research and Policy at the Homelessness Outreach and Prevention Project at the Urban Justice Center, New York, USA.