Nurturing the One, Supporting the Many : : The Center for Family Life in Sunset Park, Brooklyn /

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

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 sc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Hess, Peg,
Botsko, Michael,
McGowan, Brenda,
MitwirkendeR:
Kemp, Susan P.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2003]
©2003
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 8 figures, 14 photos
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Table of 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

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