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  title info:
    title: Social Capital and Community Well-Being
    sub title: The Serve Here Initiative
  name:
    name part: Greenberg, Alva G.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Gullotta, Thomas P.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Bloom, Martin.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 247 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides a comprehensive overview of how communities can leverage their social capital to improve overall quality of life for citizens. In addition, it offers detailed guidance on the design, implementation, and evaluation of social capital initiatives. It defines critical concepts of social capital, its decline in recent years, and the potential for rebuilding it through progressive social policy initiatives. Chapters present an innovative social policy template, Serve Here, for improving Americans’ collective quality of life, starting with young adults. Serve Here sets out a comprehensive, sustainable service learning plan aimed at increasing quality higher education for young adults, reducing college debt, and enhancing long-term civic participation and community building. The book offer guidelines for developing tailored solutions to ensure greater parity of social capital to regional, demographic, and other marginalized populations. Featured topics include: The civic value of social capital. The economics of social capital in communities. Building social capital across communities by leveraging personal relationships. Social capital and returning military veterans. Millennials and social capital. Teaching the social entrepreneurs of tomorrow. Social Capital and Community Well-Being: The Serve Here Initiative is a valuable resource for clinicians and practitioners as well as researchers and graduate students in community psychology, social work, education, and healthcare policy.
  table of contents: Chapter 1. The Role of Social Capital to American Democracy and the Creation of Serve Here CT -- Chapter 2. Millennials and Social Capital: Exploration in Reinventing the American Dream -- Chapter 3. Social Capital and the Returning Military Veteran -- Chapter 4. What is Social Capital? -- Chapter 5. The Value of Social Capital: What are its Outcomes? -- Chapter 6. The Economics of Social Capital: Considering the Fiscal Value of Social Networks -- Chapter 7. Compassionate Capitalism, the Workplace, and Social Capital -- Chapter 8. Strategies for Building Social Capital -- Chapter 9. Building Social Capital from the Inside Out: Leveraging Intra-Power (Personal Capital) -- Chapter 10. Teaching the Social Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow -- Chapter 11. Case Studies of Social Capital at Work -- Chapter 12. Social Capital: Models and Efforts to Build and Restore Among Marginalized Individuals and Communities -- Chapter 13. Evaluation: Concepts, Plans, and Progress -- Chapter 14. Epilogue. .
  note: edited by Alva G. Greenberg, Thomas P. Gullotta, Martin Bloom.
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Educational policy
  subject:
    topic: ducation and state
  subject:
    topic: Social work
  subject:
    topic: Community psychology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Community and Environmental Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Social Work
  subject:
    topic: Educational Policy and Politics
  classification: RA790.55
  classification: BF353
  classification: 155.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Issues in Children's and Families' Lives
  identifier: 9783319332642
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33264-2
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    record creation date: 160727
    record change date: 20160727070621.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-33264-2