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Social Capital and Community Well-Being - The Serve Here Initiative (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Social Capital and Community Well-Being - The Serve Here Initiative (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Issues in Children's and Families' Lives
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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.
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