Urban Sanctuaries

Neighborhood Organizations in the Lives and Futures of Inner-City Youth
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-7879-5941-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

A comprehensive look at inner-city youth programs. Urban Sanctuaries analyzes the strategies of community leaders and organizations. The author describes how these leaders create and sustain youth programs in spite of enormous challenges.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McLaughlin, Milbrey W

Irby, Merita A

Langman, Juliet

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Neighborhood Organizations: Places of Hope in the Inner City.

2. The Hopefuls: Six Teens with a Bright Future.

3. The Wizards: Three Homegrown Community Leaders.

4. More Wizards: Three Outsiders Who Have Earned Respect.

5. What Matters Most? Common Traits of Wizards and Their Organizations.

6. Making Vision a Reality: The People Who Make it Work.

7. Building the Program's Family.

8. Volunteers: A Mixed Blessing.

9. Finding Resources: The Struggle to Fund Neighborhood Programs.

10. Sustaining Places of Hope: How Three Programs Negotiate Support in One City.

11. Keeping Hope Alive: An Appeal for Action.

Über Autor(innen)

MILBREY W. MCLAUGHLIN is the David Jacks Professor of Education and Public Policy at Stanford University.

MERITA A. IRBY is cofounder and director of programs for the Forum for Youth Investments, an initiative of the International Youth Foundation.

JULIET LANGMAN is assistant professor of bicultural-bilingual studies at the University of Texas, San Antonio.