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- Title
Building communities that strengthen families.
- Authors
Scott, Dorothy
- Abstract
Despite the pervasive gloom and doom which seems to be the spirit of our age, there are grounds for hope as we now have the conceptual and empirical components of a strong foundation for developing programs aimed at family strengthening and community building. The article author discusses the social conditions in contemporary Australia. She outlines social components, gives examples of what she sees as promising programs, draws together the common ingredients, and identifies some of the challenges such programs face in "going to scale." This discussion extends a keynote address she gave in 1999 at a conference at the University of Newcastle, subsequently published in the journal Children Australia, and explores what appear to be effective elements in programs aimed at strengthening families and rebuilding communities. The speech focused on what might be called "micro-level" community building-interventions aimed at developing natural helping networks around families and generating social capital at the neighbourhood level. The conceptual foundations for such initiatives are twofold: an ecological framework for understanding families and communities.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; FAMILIES; SOCIAL groups; SOCIAL capital; CHILD services; FAMILY services
- Publication
Family Matters, 2001, Issue 58, p76
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article