Ebook: Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Capacity

A thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practice. Now in its second edition, Rural Social Work is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and practitioners presenting a framework for resource building based on the strengths, assets, and capacities of people, a tool essential for working with rural communities. This guide considers methods for social workers to participate in the work of sustaining rural communities. Each chapter features a reading integrating the themes of capacity-building and rural social work; discussion questions that facilitate critical thinking around the chapter; and suggested activities and assignments. Exploring how social workers can integrate the tremendous resources that exist in rural communities into their practice, Rural Social Work, Second Edition provides a solid introduction to the complex, challenging, and rewarding work of building and sustaining rural communities. -- Amazon.com.;Down-home social work : a strengths-based model for rural practice / Michael R. Daley and Freddie L. Avant -- Rural is real : history of the National Rural Social Work Caucus and the NASW professional policy statement on rural social work / Samuel A. Hickman -- Social welfare and rural people : from the colonial era to the present / Paul H. Stuart -- Out of sight, out of mind : rural social work and African American women at Efland home for girls, 1920-1938 / Tanya Smith Brice -- Accomplishing the four essential tasks for higher education access : the role of natural helping networks in rural Virginia / Nathan F. Alleman and L. Neal Holly -- African Americans living in rural community : builiding assets from an Afrocentric perspective / Freddie L. Avant -- Latino populations in rural America : using strengths to build capacity / Griselda Villalobos -- Building community among rural gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons : connecting community through families of choice / Amy C. Russell -- Rural children and adolescents : building capacities within public schools / Linda Openshaw -- Evidence based practice in the rural context / Danielle E. Parrish and Kathi R. Trawver -- Wraparound in rural child and youth mental health : coalescing family-community capacities / Tamara S. Davis -- Help-seeking pathways to care : culturally competent practice with rural Hispanics with high migratory traditions to the United States / Dennis L. Poole and Alex Espadas -- Social workers and rural congregations : partnering to build community capacity / T. Laine Scales and Jon E. Singletary -- Working together to improve services for people living with HIV/AIDS : an example of service delivery network development from rural northeast Texas / H. Stephen Cooper, Freddie L. Avant and Wilma Cordova -- Building capacity to overcome challenges in the delivery of hospice and palliative care in rural communities / Amy Z. Boelk and Jessica H. Retrum -- Capacity for conservation : rural communities address sustainability for global impact / Kathleen Belanger -- Living in limbo : homeless families in rural America / Jim Winship -- Location matters : using GIS mapping to address policy issues in rural areas / Donna M. Aguiniga and Amanda M. Davis -- Using an assessment framework for research in a rural context / Susan A. Murty -- Using concept mapping for assessment and planning in rural communities : identifying capacities through participation / Tamara S. Davis and H. Stephen Cooper -- Rural networks : using social network analysis to understand communities / Calvin L. Streeter and H. Stephen Cooper.