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Nurturing the One, Supporting the Many : The Center for Family Life in Sunset Park, Brooklyn / Peg Hess, Michael Botsko, Brenda McGowan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 8 figures, 14 photosContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231115940
  • 9780231529112
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.85/09747/1 22
LOC classification:
  • HN49.C6 H47 2003eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Center for Family Life and Its Programs -- 1. Building a Family-Focused, Community-Centered Program: Commitments, Philosophies, and Interests -- 2. The Development of the Center in the Context of Child Welfare Policy and Programming -- 3. The Core: Family Counseling Services -- 4. The Neighborhood Foster Care Program -- 5. Supporting Families, Building Community, and Developing Children and Youth: The Community School Programs -- 6. Supporting Family and Community Development -- 7. Lessons Learned from the Center for Family Life in Sunset Park -- Appendix A: Study Design and Methodology -- Appendix B: Instruments Modified or Created for This Study -- Appendix C: Initial and Final FAF Scores -- Sources Cited -- Index
Summary: Since its establishment in 1978 the Center for Family Life has been an integral source of assistance to immigrant families in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a community struggling with poverty, unemployment, health issues, drug-related problems, youth gang activity, a housing shortage, and oversubscribed schools. This book is a narrative of the development of the Center and its relations with the surrounding community.With its unique combination of community-rootedness and clinical sophistication, the Center serves as a programmatic model for other family service contexts. Underlying the Center's programs and the staff's interactions with families is a philosophy and theoretical orientation that embraces clients in a shared sense of responsibility for change, focuses on all family members and on families as systems, and emphasizes the developmental and the expressive.Almost 30% of the community's children and youth are participating in one or more Center services over the course of a year. Such services include after-school childcare, summer camp, creative and performing arts programs, recreation, youth development and parent education, employment programs for adults and youth, comprehensive emergency services to meet family needs for food, clothing, and financial assistance; individual, family, and group counseling; and neighborhood foster care. The authors supply case studies and supporting theoretical material, and discuss the implications for professional practice, education, research, and policy that can be derived from studying the Center's experience.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Center for Family Life and Its Programs -- 1. Building a Family-Focused, Community-Centered Program: Commitments, Philosophies, and Interests -- 2. The Development of the Center in the Context of Child Welfare Policy and Programming -- 3. The Core: Family Counseling Services -- 4. The Neighborhood Foster Care Program -- 5. Supporting Families, Building Community, and Developing Children and Youth: The Community School Programs -- 6. Supporting Family and Community Development -- 7. Lessons Learned from the Center for Family Life in Sunset Park -- Appendix A: Study Design and Methodology -- Appendix B: Instruments Modified or Created for This Study -- Appendix C: Initial and Final FAF Scores -- Sources Cited -- Index

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Since its establishment in 1978 the Center for Family Life has been an integral source of assistance to immigrant families in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a community struggling with poverty, unemployment, health issues, drug-related problems, youth gang activity, a housing shortage, and oversubscribed schools. This book is a narrative of the development of the Center and its relations with the surrounding community.With its unique combination of community-rootedness and clinical sophistication, the Center serves as a programmatic model for other family service contexts. Underlying the Center's programs and the staff's interactions with families is a philosophy and theoretical orientation that embraces clients in a shared sense of responsibility for change, focuses on all family members and on families as systems, and emphasizes the developmental and the expressive.Almost 30% of the community's children and youth are participating in one or more Center services over the course of a year. Such services include after-school childcare, summer camp, creative and performing arts programs, recreation, youth development and parent education, employment programs for adults and youth, comprehensive emergency services to meet family needs for food, clothing, and financial assistance; individual, family, and group counseling; and neighborhood foster care. The authors supply case studies and supporting theoretical material, and discuss the implications for professional practice, education, research, and policy that can be derived from studying the Center's experience.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)