Melvin Delgado
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3585262 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Melvin Delgado |
| NOMBRES | Melvin |
| APELLIDO | Delgado |
| FIRMA | DELGADO M |
| AFILIACIONES | Boston University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
More than a fingerprint on a pebble
The pebble discovered in the San Lázaro rock-shelter (Segovia, Central Spain) is the oldest known non-utilitarian object with a fingerprint made in Europe. Its morphology and the strategic position of an ocher dot, where a dermatoglyphic image has been detected, may be evidence of symbolic behavior. This object contributes to our understanding of Neanderthals' capacity for abstraction, suggesting that it could represent one of the earliest human …
Urban Public Spaces, Events, and Gun Violence
If disposing of this product, please recycle the paper.v "Urban Public Spaces, Events, and Gun Violence: Block Parties, Funerals, Mother's Day, and Other Community Events is a must-read to understand the enormous negative impact of gun violence on the social, economic, and cultural wellbeing of disadvantaged Black and Latino communities and other communities across the United States.The book discusses tangible solutions that could effectively add…
Urban Public Spaces, Events, and Gun Violence
Houses of Worship, Funerals, Vigils, and Wakes
State-Sanctioned Violence
The role and function of the state is not to harm its residents but rather to help them develop their potential and meet their basic human needs. The importance of violence is well attested to by Oxford University Press devoting a book series on interpersonal violence. However, state-sanctioned violence in the United States is not, for example. The saying “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable” comes to mind in writing…
Urban Youth and Photovoice
Community Practice and Urban Youth
Community Practice and Urban Youth is for graduate level students in fields that offer youth studies and community practice courses. Practitioners in these fields, too, will find the book particularly useful in furthering the integration of social justice as a conceptual and philosophical foundation. The use of food, environmental justice, and immigrant-rights and the book’s focus on service-learning and civic engagement involving these three top…
Baby Boomers of Color
This book provides a comprehensive portrait of the status and unique assets of baby boomers of color. It argues that quality data on the individual status of specific racial populations is lacking and that this leads to inadequate programs, policies, and services. It goes on to say that the absence of data is a testament to the invisibility of baby boomers of color in society and that this deeply affects the practice of social work and the work o…
Latinos and Alcohol Use/Abuse Revisited
Prisoner Reentry at Work
Convicted offenders need jobs when they leave prison—but few people want to hire them. Spotlighting this thorny issue, Melvin Delgado explores the potential role of business enterprises in providing work to former prisoners and helping them to reconnect with their home communities. Delgado documents the unconventional approaches of nonprofit businesses that deliberately and exclusively hire former inmates. He finds that employers can play a multi…
Latino Cultural Assets and Substance Abuse Services
Latino cultural assets represent a vast untapped resource for the field of substance abuse in its quest to provide culturally competent services to an increasingly large numerical population group in the United States
Social Youth Entrepreneurship
Youth policies in the United States-especially for economically and socially disadvantaged children-are often characterized as fragmented, inadequate, antiquated, misguided, and, at worst, negligent or even harmful. The primary systems mandated to serve youth often coexist as if in parallel universes, often at odds with each other regarding goals, priorities, and resources. To address these deep-seated problems and propose a dynamic alternative, …
Where Are All the Young Men and Women of Color
When it comes to social work practice in community outreach programs, in juvenile detention centres, in prisons, in parole and probation programs, and in the inner cities, Melvin Delgado asks the question: Where are all the young men and women of color? Although many urban residents, especially persons of color, are or have been involved in the juvenile and/or criminal justice system, the topic of criminal offenders and ex-offenders has been much…
Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context
Community social work practice based on a capacity enhancement model offers tremendous potential for unifying communities consisting of groups from very different cultural backgrounds, and in the process of doing so, make physical changes in the community. This book emphasizes community and urban social work and explains how to create positive community environments in marginalized urban-based communities. The use of murals, gardens, playgrounds,…
Community social work practice in an urban context
Latina-Owned Businesses
Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos
Puerto Rican Natural Support Systems
This manuscript focuses on the identification and use of Puerto Rican natural support systems in collaborative ventures with schools and other systems. The article presents the results of a longitudinal study of 24 Puerto Rican families with children in a local elementary school. Implications are presented for a developmental approach for school involvement with natural support systems in an urban environment
Puerto Rican Food Establishments as Social Service Organizations
Recent interest in identifying and utilizing community assets represents an important shift in paradigms concerning undervalued communities in general, and communities-of-color in particular. The Latino community in the United States serves as an excellent example of how indigenous resources (natural support systems) can be utilized in the planning and delivery of social services. This article will examine one source of resources, food establishm…
Reaching the Underserved
Journal Article Reaching the Underserved: Mental Health Needs of Neglected Populations. Edited by Lonnie R. Snowden and Transcultural Perspectives in the Human Services: Organizational Issues and Trends. By Roosevelt Wright, Jr., Dennis Saleebey, Thomas D. Watts, and Pedro J. Lecca Get access Reaching the Underserved: Mental Health Needs of Neglected Populations. Edited by Snowden Lonnie R.. 3, Sage Annual Reviews of Community Mental Health. Beve…
Uprooting and surviving
Assessing hispanic mental health needs
This article is based on the premise that culture-specific needs assessment methodologies are necessary to obtain accurate, valid, and reliable results when studies are conducted in culturally different groups. Accordingly, the literature on needs assessment and on Hispanic psychology is reviewed, creating a synthesis prescriptive of the best strategies for the assessment of mental health needs of Hispanic populations. Traditional needs assessmen…
Mini-Reviews
Cultural consultation
The saints of Santa Ana
Natural support systems
Natural support systems have a variety of functions in Hispanic communities. The authors examine four types of natural support systems, analyze the needs they serve in Hispanic communities, and discuss the implications of this analysis for direct services, planning, and social policy
Puerto Rican Food Establishments as Social Service Organizations
Recent interest in identifying and utilizing community assets represents an important shift in paradigms concerning undervalued communities in general, and communities-of-color in particular. The Latino community in the United States serves as an excellent example of how indigenous resources (natural support systems) can be utilized in the planning and delivery of social services. This article will examine one source of resources, food establishm…
Folk Medicine in the Puerto Rican Culture
There are a few Puerto-Rican words in this article, exact translations of which are difficult to find. However, a loose equivalent by the side of each of such words makes the meaning quite clear in the context
More than a fingerprint on a pebble
The pebble discovered in the San Lázaro rock-shelter (Segovia, Central Spain) is the oldest known non-utilitarian object with a fingerprint made in Europe. Its morphology and the strategic position of an ocher dot, where a dermatoglyphic image has been detected, may be evidence of symbolic behavior. This object contributes to our understanding of Neanderthals' capacity for abstraction, suggesting that it could represent one of the earliest human …
Puerto Rican Spiritualism and the Social Work Profession
Uprooted people needing to turn to supernatural forces find an institutionalized outlet for the therapeutic discharge of unresolved frustration or aggression
Folk Medicine in the Puerto Rican Culture
There are a few Puerto-Rican words in this article, exact translations of which are difficult to find. However, a loose equivalent by the side of each of such words makes the meaning quite clear in the context
Strategic intervention
Over the past three years the Worcester Youth Guidance Center has developed a series of mental health programs directed to the Hispanic community of Worcester, Massachusetts. The model for these programs has been that of strategic intervention. This approach was based upon knowledge gained from the literature and extensive exploratory contacts with key Hispanic leaders. The Center's Hispanic Program consists of five components: (1) community educ…
Mini-Reviews
Cultural consultation
Natural support systems
Natural support systems have a variety of functions in Hispanic communities. The authors examine four types of natural support systems, analyze the needs they serve in Hispanic communities, and discuss the implications of this analysis for direct services, planning, and social policy
Uprooting and surviving
Assessing hispanic mental health needs
This article is based on the premise that culture-specific needs assessment methodologies are necessary to obtain accurate, valid, and reliable results when studies are conducted in culturally different groups. Accordingly, the literature on needs assessment and on Hispanic psychology is reviewed, creating a synthesis prescriptive of the best strategies for the assessment of mental health needs of Hispanic populations. Traditional needs assessmen…
Reaching the Underserved
Journal Article Reaching the Underserved: Mental Health Needs of Neglected Populations. Edited by Lonnie R. Snowden and Transcultural Perspectives in the Human Services: Organizational Issues and Trends. By Roosevelt Wright, Jr., Dennis Saleebey, Thomas D. Watts, and Pedro J. Lecca Get access Reaching the Underserved: Mental Health Needs of Neglected Populations. Edited by Snowden Lonnie R.. 3, Sage Annual Reviews of Community Mental Health. Beve…
Puerto Rican Food Establishments as Social Service Organizations
Recent interest in identifying and utilizing community assets represents an important shift in paradigms concerning undervalued communities in general, and communities-of-color in particular. The Latino community in the United States serves as an excellent example of how indigenous resources (natural support systems) can be utilized in the planning and delivery of social services. This article will examine one source of resources, food establishm…
Puerto Rican Natural Support Systems
This manuscript focuses on the identification and use of Puerto Rican natural support systems in collaborative ventures with schools and other systems. The article presents the results of a longitudinal study of 24 Puerto Rican families with children in a local elementary school. Implications are presented for a developmental approach for school involvement with natural support systems in an urban environment
Latina-Owned Businesses
Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos
Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context
Community social work practice based on a capacity enhancement model offers tremendous potential for unifying communities consisting of groups from very different cultural backgrounds, and in the process of doing so, make physical changes in the community. This book emphasizes community and urban social work and explains how to create positive community environments in marginalized urban-based communities. The use of murals, gardens, playgrounds,…
Community social work practice in an urban context
Where Are All the Young Men and Women of Color
When it comes to social work practice in community outreach programs, in juvenile detention centres, in prisons, in parole and probation programs, and in the inner cities, Melvin Delgado asks the question: Where are all the young men and women of color? Although many urban residents, especially persons of color, are or have been involved in the juvenile and/or criminal justice system, the topic of criminal offenders and ex-offenders has been much…
Social Youth Entrepreneurship
Youth policies in the United States-especially for economically and socially disadvantaged children-are often characterized as fragmented, inadequate, antiquated, misguided, and, at worst, negligent or even harmful. The primary systems mandated to serve youth often coexist as if in parallel universes, often at odds with each other regarding goals, priorities, and resources. To address these deep-seated problems and propose a dynamic alternative, …
Latino Cultural Assets and Substance Abuse Services
Latino cultural assets represent a vast untapped resource for the field of substance abuse in its quest to provide culturally competent services to an increasingly large numerical population group in the United States
Latinos and Alcohol Use/Abuse Revisited
Prisoner Reentry at Work
Convicted offenders need jobs when they leave prison—but few people want to hire them. Spotlighting this thorny issue, Melvin Delgado explores the potential role of business enterprises in providing work to former prisoners and helping them to reconnect with their home communities. Delgado documents the unconventional approaches of nonprofit businesses that deliberately and exclusively hire former inmates. He finds that employers can play a multi…
Baby Boomers of Color
This book provides a comprehensive portrait of the status and unique assets of baby boomers of color. It argues that quality data on the individual status of specific racial populations is lacking and that this leads to inadequate programs, policies, and services. It goes on to say that the absence of data is a testament to the invisibility of baby boomers of color in society and that this deeply affects the practice of social work and the work o…
Urban Youth and Photovoice
Community Practice and Urban Youth
Community Practice and Urban Youth is for graduate level students in fields that offer youth studies and community practice courses. Practitioners in these fields, too, will find the book particularly useful in furthering the integration of social justice as a conceptual and philosophical foundation. The use of food, environmental justice, and immigrant-rights and the book’s focus on service-learning and civic engagement involving these three top…
State-Sanctioned Violence
The role and function of the state is not to harm its residents but rather to help them develop their potential and meet their basic human needs. The importance of violence is well attested to by Oxford University Press devoting a book series on interpersonal violence. However, state-sanctioned violence in the United States is not, for example. The saying “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable” comes to mind in writing…
Urban Public Spaces, Events, and Gun Violence
If disposing of this product, please recycle the paper.v "Urban Public Spaces, Events, and Gun Violence: Block Parties, Funerals, Mother's Day, and Other Community Events is a must-read to understand the enormous negative impact of gun violence on the social, economic, and cultural wellbeing of disadvantaged Black and Latino communities and other communities across the United States.The book discusses tangible solutions that could effectively add…
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