Incorporating individual community assets in neighbourhood houses

Beyond the community-building tradition of settlement houses

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9973150
AutoresMiu Chung Yan (0000-0002-4221-7430, The University of British Columbia, Canada, autor de correspondencia), Lauer (0000-0002-2577-1958, The University of British Columbia, Canada), Pilar Riaño-Alcalá (0000-0002-4757-893X, The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Año2016
Volumen60
Número6
Páginas1591-1605
Fecha de publicación2016-04-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0020872816633889
OpenAlexW2338822298
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas18

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

Business · Community building · Community organization · Economic growth · Economics · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Political science · Public relations · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Finance · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban Planning and Governance