Amzie Moore
Biographic Data
| ID | 4619778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amzie Moore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amzie |
| FAMILY NAME | Moore |
| SIGNATURE | MOORE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6485-5575 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From just doing research to doing just research
The social work profession has always prioritized working toward social justice, yet how research can accomplish that aim has been conceptualized in diverse ways. Now, problems such as the implementation gap that renders much evidence-based knowledge unavailable for high-burden communities, the ways scientific research can be unwittingly infused with racism, gender bias, homophobia, ablism and colonialism, and demands for participatory knowledge …
Developmental sensitivities and strengths in adolescent mentors of community children
Cross-age mentoring programs provide adolescents with opportunities to develop leadership, empathy, and self-efficacy while supporting younger peers. However, little is known about the developmental sensitivities and strengths adolescent mentors bring to cross-age mentoring relationships, particularly among youth of color in economically stressed communities. Guided by a phenomenological and ecological systems framework, this study examined how a…
‘Mentors need mentors’
This study investigates instructor activities that 158 adolescent mentors of community children found meaningful in the context of their under-resourced urban communities. Theoretical frameworks draw from trauma theory, self-psychology, and community cultural wealth. Data include field notes, peer-to-peer programme evaluation interviews, exit interviews, focus groups, and notes from clinical seminars for instructors. Mentors found instructor supp…
Street-Based Social Work Praxis
Street-based social work responds to the “social disaster” of U.S. youth of color experiencing poverty who fall through the cracks of existing social safety nets. Drawing from 17 years of feedback from youth clients about street-based service provision in university–community partnerships, the flexible street-based model uses several trauma-focused, strengths-based, and humanistic modalities to provide youth with a positive childhood experience a…
Self-efficacy is not just about the Self
Objective: Self-efficacy, a belief in one’s capacity to achieve specific outcomes despite obstacles, is tied to a myriad of positive outcomes in the educational, relational, mental health, and future achievement of Black youth. Black youth living in racially segregated, low-income urban communities face greater obstacles than other youth. This study examines how participation as mentors in a cross-age mentoring program influences self-efficacy, a…
We are not all gangbangers
Centering youth voices in a participatory cross-age mentoring program in urban high-poverty communities, this paper addresses three problems in knowledge about youth of color experiencing low-income: 1) Misrepresenting youth as disproportionately violence-prone, 2) minimizing stressors youth experience, and 3) ignoring youths' goals. Those knowledge problems can be framed as a contemporary form of DuBois' construct of "scientific racism." To coun…
We got to stand up and speak”
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We got to stand up and speak”
Street-Based Social Work Praxis
Street-based social work responds to the “social disaster” of U.S. youth of color experiencing poverty who fall through the cracks of existing social safety nets. Drawing from 17 years of feedback from youth clients about street-based service provision in university–community partnerships, the flexible street-based model uses several trauma-focused, strengths-based, and humanistic modalities to provide youth with a positive childhood experience a…
Self-efficacy is not just about the Self
Objective: Self-efficacy, a belief in one’s capacity to achieve specific outcomes despite obstacles, is tied to a myriad of positive outcomes in the educational, relational, mental health, and future achievement of Black youth. Black youth living in racially segregated, low-income urban communities face greater obstacles than other youth. This study examines how participation as mentors in a cross-age mentoring program influences self-efficacy, a…
We are not all gangbangers
Centering youth voices in a participatory cross-age mentoring program in urban high-poverty communities, this paper addresses three problems in knowledge about youth of color experiencing low-income: 1) Misrepresenting youth as disproportionately violence-prone, 2) minimizing stressors youth experience, and 3) ignoring youths' goals. Those knowledge problems can be framed as a contemporary form of DuBois' construct of "scientific racism." To coun…
From just doing research to doing just research
The social work profession has always prioritized working toward social justice, yet how research can accomplish that aim has been conceptualized in diverse ways. Now, problems such as the implementation gap that renders much evidence-based knowledge unavailable for high-burden communities, the ways scientific research can be unwittingly infused with racism, gender bias, homophobia, ablism and colonialism, and demands for participatory knowledge …
Developmental sensitivities and strengths in adolescent mentors of community children
Cross-age mentoring programs provide adolescents with opportunities to develop leadership, empathy, and self-efficacy while supporting younger peers. However, little is known about the developmental sensitivities and strengths adolescent mentors bring to cross-age mentoring relationships, particularly among youth of color in economically stressed communities. Guided by a phenomenological and ecological systems framework, this study examined how a…
‘Mentors need mentors’
This study investigates instructor activities that 158 adolescent mentors of community children found meaningful in the context of their under-resourced urban communities. Theoretical frameworks draw from trauma theory, self-psychology, and community cultural wealth. Data include field notes, peer-to-peer programme evaluation interviews, exit interviews, focus groups, and notes from clinical seminars for instructors. Mentors found instructor supp…
Youth Development and Social Support (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Mentoring and Academic Development (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Poverty (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)