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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yan, Miu Chung
• Lauer, Sean
• Riaño-Alcalá, Pilar

Titel

Incorporating individual community assets in neighbourhood houses: Beyond the community-building tradition of settlement houses

Ist Teil von

• International social work, 2017-11, Vol.60 (6), p.1591-1605

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As a global movement, neighbourhood houses (NHs) are found in urban communities all over the world. Following the community-building tradition of early settlement houses, NHs have been actively nurturing and mobilizing community assets to serve the local community, but it is not known whether NHs have incorporated these assets in their infrastructure. This article reports the findings of a clearinghouse survey of 15 NHs in Metro Vancouver, Canada, which indicate that they nurtured community assets and incorporated them into their infrastructure as paid staff. Yet at the leadership level, the incorporation falls short of ethno-racial minority members from the community.