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Overview
Develop more effective community initiatives and build solid collaborations!
Although the fields of disability studies and community psychology developed separately, with little crossover, they have evolved similar values, principles, and tactics. People with Disabilities: Empowerment and Community Action is the first volume to bring together these two fields. Now disability activists and community psychologists can join forces, share ideas, and gain strength from one another.
This landmark volume offers empirical research and practical advice from respected scholars in the field. People with Disabilities: Empowerment and Community Action presents tested strategies for empowering a wide variety of people with disabilities, including Latinos, the aged, the developmentally disabled, low-income schoolchildren, and patients with chronic diseases. The diversity of strategies offered here means that every community can find a way to make its own voice heard.
People with Disabilities: Empowerment and Community Action offers detailed, step-by-step plans for developing a broad range of programs, including:
- choosing strategies to suit rural, suburban, and urban environments
- taking a capacity-building approach to community empowerment
- developing participatory action plans
- building effective coalitions
- enabling collaboration between inner-city universities and the community
Synopsis
Presents community approaches to promote scientific research and social justice for people with disabilities. The five contributions include a study evaluating consumers as collaborators in disability research and action; a discussion of a capacity-building approach to community empowerment in the Latino community; and examples of community responsiveness from under-resourced urban schools. Simultaneously co-published as J. of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, v.21, no.2, 2001.
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Cary Cherniss
There is much rhetoric these days about university-community partnerships, empowerment, and participatory action research. This book shows how to translate these lofty ideals into practice. It does so by presenting a variety of intervention models and then showing how each was implemented in actual community settings. There are contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field—a veritable who s who of community psychologists interested in disabilities.