Rural social work : building and sustaining community capacity / [edited by] T. Laine Scales, Calvin L. Streeter, H. Stephen Cooper.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents. Chapter 1 Down-home social work: a strengths-based model for rural practice -- Chapter 2 Rural is real: history of the national rural social work caucus and the NASW professional policy statement on rural social work -- Chapter 3 Social welfare and rural people: form the colonial era to the present -- Chapter 4 Out of sight, out of mind: rural social work and African American women at Efland home for girls, 1920-1938 -- Chapter 5 Accomplishing the four essential tasks for higher education access: the role of natural helping networks in rural Virginia -- Chapter 6 African American living in rural community: building assets from and Afrocentric perspective -- Chapter 7 Latino populations in rural America: using strengths to build capacity -- Chapter 8 Building community among rural gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons: connecting community through families of choice -- Chapter 9 Rural children and adolescents: building capacities within public schools -- Chapter 10 Evidence-based practice in the rural context -- Chapter 11 Wraparound in rural child and youth mental health: coalescing family-community capacities -- Chapter 12 Help seeking pathways to care: culturally competent practice with rural Hispanics with high migratory traditions to the United States -- Chapter 13 Social workers and rural congregations: partnering to build community capacity -- Chapter 14 Working together to improve services for people living with HIV/AIDS: an example of service delivery network development from rural Northeast Texas -- Chapter 15 Building capacity to overcome challenges in the delivery of hospice and palliative care in rural communities -- Chapter 16 Capacity for conservation: rural communities address sustainability for global impact -- Chapter 17 Living in limbo: homeless families in rural America -- Chapter 18 Location matters: using GIS mapping to address policy issues in rural areas -- Chapter 19 Using an assessment framework for research in a rural context -- Chapter 20 Using concept mapping for assessment and planning in rural communities: identifying capacities through participation -- Chapter 21 Rural networks: using social network analysis to understand communities.

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