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The Death Care Industry and Urban Gun Violence

Melvin Delgado

This book provides a unique foundation upon which to view how the involvement of the death care sector offers a potential route to take in practice and research in reaching urban communities of color dealing with gun-related deaths.  Gun violence in the United...

Urban Public Spaces, Events, and Gun Violence

Melvin Delgado

This book offers a new vision on urban gun violence that focuses on public space-centered concepts, events, and research. It builds on our existing knowledge base by viewing a "slice" of this problem through celebratory and solemn occasions and how violence at these...

The Silent Epidemic of Gun Injuries

Melvin Delgado

Gun injuries are a social and public health phenomenon that has profound consequences on victims, their social network, and neighborhood. Deaths resulting from gun violence represent just one piece of this puzzle while injuries (visible and invisible) make up a...

Urban Gun Violence

Melvin Delgado

Gun violence occurs in urban areas more than it does anywhere else, and youth of color in these areas are disproportionately impacted in the United States. How can we approach this? What can we do to stop this from happening in the first place? In addition to trying to...

State-Sanctioned Violence

Melvin Delgado

The helping professions and social scientists traditionally seek concepts and paradigms that can be used in shaping research and services focused on marginalized populations in the United States. Various perspectives have garnered attention across disciplines with...

Community Health Workers in Action

Melvin Delgado

Community Health Workers in Action proposes support and expansion of the role of community health workers in meeting the health needs of marginalized groups in United States cities (although their potential reach is not limited to any one group or geographical section)....

Sanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations

Melvin Delgado

The term "sanctuary city" gained a new level of national recognition during the 2016 United States presidential election, and immigration policies and debates have remained a top issue since the election of Donald Trump.The battle over immigration and deportation will...

Music, Song, Dance, and Theater

Melvin Delgado

The performing arts is one particular area of youth community practice can that can be effectively tapped to attract youth within schools and out-of-school settings, or what has been referred to as the "third area between school and family." These settings are...

Urban Friendships and Community Youth Practice

Melvin Delgado

There is no denying that friendship, however narrow or broad the definition, is dynamic and highly responsive to socio-cultural and environmental factors. Urban Youth Friendships and Community Practice highlights the greater importance of friendships in circumstances...

Urban Youth and Photovoice

Melvin Delgado

The past decade brought forth a wave of excitement and promise for researchers and practitioners interested in community practice as an approach based on social justice principles and an embrace of community participatory actions. But, effective community practice is...

Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice

Melvin Delgado , Denise Humm-Delgado

Youth-Led Community Organizing

Melvin Delgado , Lee Staples

Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media. Melvin Delgado and Lee Staples,...

Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context

Melvin Delgado