Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice by Melvin Delgado (English)

Description: Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice by Melvin Delgado, Denise Humm-Delgado Needs assessments identify the needs for services, answering questions about who needs these services and in what priority. Asset assessments focuses on existing resources; combing both needs and asset assesments helps find the gaps in these services and is useful to organizations and communities. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The role and importance of assessment in development of health and social services are well accepted in the field, and represent the fundamental building blocks for the creation of any form of social intervention. Need assessments are, without question, the most common form of assessment in these fields. They typically, however, result in a rather narrow view of a community that stresses disease risk profiles and lists of various social problem categories.Nevertheless, unlike needs assessments, asset assessments bring a range of factors and considerations to the creation of an intervention that are guided by participatory democratic principles and processes.Although need assessments can also be guided by participatory principles, they generally are professionally-driven and do not stress capacity enhancement in the process. Asset assessments emphasis on participatory democracy sufficiently distance themselves from their needs counterpart through the use of values, language used to communicate, and how research methods get conceptualized and carried out. Community asset assessments can be viewed as a goal; a strategy; a set of guiding principles;a method; and a process. These different perspectives make a consensus definition of a capital difficult to arrive at in both scholarly and practice realms. Consequently, it is best to view assetassessments from an evolutionary point of view in order to appreciate the variety of perspectives, tensions, and potential for achieving positive social change. In essence asset assessments are both an instrument of discovery as well as an intervention to achieve community change. Author Biography Melvin Delgado, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Macro Practice at the Boston University School of Social Work.Denise Humm-Delgado, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Simmons College School of Social Work. Table of Contents PrefaceAcknowledgmentsSection One: Definition, Values, and Principles1. Introduction2. Definitions, History, Elements and Boundaries3. Values Underpinning Asset Assessments4. Rewards, Challenges and Ethical Dilemmas in Undertaking Community Asset AssessmentsSection Two: Analytical Framework, Elements, and Methods5. Analytical Framework for Undertaking Assessments6. Community Asset Assessment Methods7. Community Mapping Strategies8. Reporting FindingsSection Three: Lessons from the Field of Practice9. Asset Assessments and Youth10. Asset Assessments and Latino communities11. Asset Assessments and Community GardensSection Four: Future Rewards and Challenges12. EpilogueReferencesIndex Long Description The role and importance of assessment in development of health and social services are well accepted in the field, and represent the fundamental building blocks for the creation of any form of social intervention. Need assessments are, without question, the most common form of assessment in these fields. They typically, however, result in a rather narrow view of a community that stresses disease risk profiles and lists of various social problem categories.Nevertheless, unlike needs assessments, asset assessments bring a range of factors and considerations to the creation of an intervention that are guided by participatory democratic principles and processes. Although need assessments can also be guided by participatory principles, they generally areprofessionally-driven and do not stress capacity enhancement in the process. Asset assessments emphasis on participatory democracy sufficiently distance themselves from their needs counterpart through the use of values, language used to communicate, and how research methods get conceptualized and carried out. Community asset assessments can be viewed as a goal; a strategy; a set of guiding principles; a method; and a process. These different perspectives make a consensus definition of acapital difficult to arrive at in both scholarly and practice realms. Consequently, it is best to view asset assessments from an evolutionary point of view in order to appreciate the variety of perspectives, tensions, and potential for achieving positive social change. In essence asset assessments are bothan instrument of discovery as well as an intervention to achieve community change. Feature Conferences: SSWR, SSWAA, NASW, CSWE, BPDSelling point: Demonstrates a community empowerment model for developing collaborative partnershipsSelling point: Equalizes power between residents and professionalsSelling point: Seeks to redress injustice from a position of community strength Details ISBN0199735840 Author Denise Humm-Delgado Short Title ASSET ASSESSMENTS & COMMUNITY Language English ISBN-10 0199735840 ISBN-13 9780199735846 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 361.32 Residence MA, US Affiliation Boston University Year 2013 Position Associate Professor of Social Work Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2013-02-07 AU Release Date 2013-02-07 NZ Release Date 2013-02-07 US Release Date 2013-02-07 Pages 320 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Publication Date 2013-02-07 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Illustrations 4 line-cuts Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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