Incorporating individual community assets in neighbourhood houses

Beyond the community-building tradition of settlement houses

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9973150
AutoresMiu Chung Yan (0000-0002-4221-7430, The University of British Columbia, Canada, autor correspondente), Lauer (0000-0002-2577-1958, The University of British Columbia, Canada), Pilar Riaño-Alcalá (0000-0002-4757-893X, The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Ano2016
Volume60
Fascículo6
Páginas1591-1605
Data de publicação2016-04-18
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0020872816633889
OpenAlexW2338822298
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências 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