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Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research

Melvin Delgado

In this text, author Melvin Delgado emphasizes how youth-led research represents a profound political and social statement about making relevant research result in significant changes to programs in the field of youth services.

Youth-Led Community Organizing: Theory and Action

Melvin Delgado

Youth-led organizing is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media. Delgado and Staples have produced the first comprehensive study of this dynamic field.

Baby Boomers of Color: Implications for Social Work Policy ...

Melvin Delgado

New Frontiers for Youth Development in the Twenty-First ...

Melvin Delgado

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Youth-led health promotion in urban communities: a community ...

Melvin Delgado

The book is comprehensive, providing statistical documentation and case illustrations.

Common Ground: The Japanese American National Museum and the ...

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... Joe Corral, Helena Cota, Lucy Delgado, Rebecca Delgado, Victor Delgado, Hershey Eisenberg, Elva Flores, Oscar Florez, Dave Fuentes, Ruben Guevara, Rosalie Gurrola, Saburo Hori, Albert Johnson Jr., Daniel Kawahara, Kathy Masaoka, ...

Social Youth Entrepreneurship: The Potential for Youth and ...

Melvin Delgado

Establishes an agenda for integrating education, social work, and small business programs to create economic opportunities for urban youth and their communities.

Latinos and Alcohol Use/Abuse Revisited: Advances and ...

Melvin Delgado

The book provides an up-to-date socio-demographic foundation, then builds upon current research and information to present a clear picture of the needs of various Latino populations for alcohol abuse programs now and in the future.

Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice

Melvin Delgado

The importance of mutual trust and respect very often represents the most critical element in forging a productive and mutually rewarding partnership between community and providers/ scholars (Christopher, Watts, McCormick, 8! Young, 2008 ...

Social Work Practice in Nontraditional Urban Settings

Melvin Delgado

The author suggests that many communities can be best served through their own, already-established recreational, social, and cultural centres, and shows how professional social workers can use these non-traditional settings - bars, beauty ...

Social Work with Latinos: Social, Economic, Political, and ...

Melvin Delgado

In particular, this revised edition provides an up-to-date demographic profile; identifies the rewards and challenges for the development of social work interventions focused on Latinos; includes a conceptual foundation from which to ...

Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco’s ...

James P. Delgado

The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco's Waterfront James P. Delgado. Davis, William Heath. ... Delgado, James P., J. Edward Green, David Hull, J. Phillip Langellier, John Martini, and Mary Hilderman Smith. 1979. Notes on a Crate of ...

Celebrating Urban Community Life: Fairs, Festivals, Parades, ...

Melvin Delgado

Providing a framework for social scientists, urban planners, and social workers to analyse and foster celebrations that benefit urban populations, the book is a valuable resource for those with an interest in this growing area of academic ...

Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare

James P. Delgado

Calling on his training as a nautical archaeologist who was among the first explorers to dive the Titanic, Delgado recreates the story of the submarine from the bottom up – that is through eerie photographs of subs at the bottom of the ...

Outlook for Fish to 2020: Meeting Global Demand

Delgado, Christopher L.

Meeting Global Demand Delgado, Christopher L., Wada, Nikolas, Rosegrant, Mark W., Meijer, Siet, Ahmed, Mahfuzuddin. INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2033 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20006-1002 USA ...

American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust

Melvin I. Urofsky

It caught on in Europe but was moribund in the United States until World War I. Melvin I. Urofsky shows how the Zionist movement was Americanized by Louis D. Brandeis and other reformers.

The French Review

James Frederick Mason

New York University Charles Affron Yokbn, Melvin B. Claude Tillier. (Twayne World Author Series.) Boston: Twayne, 1976. Pp. 143. This is a straightforward work of literary rehabilitation. Melvin Yoken makes no bones about it: Tillier is an ...

Lethal judgments: assisted suicide and American law

Melvin I. Urofsky

In this concise and gracefully written overview of one of the most complex and contentious areas of American law, noted constitutional scholar Melvin Urofsky discusses the tangled legal, historical, ethical, and medical issues related to ...

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research

Brent Holcomb

BOOK REVIEWS Henry Rice (1717-1818) The Pioneer Tennessee Gristmlller, and his Twelve Children by Melvin Weaver Little. 312 pages, soft cover, indexed. Price $12.95 postpaid from Melvin Weaver Little, 924 20th St., South, Arlington, ...