Nurturing the One, Supporting the Many: The Center for Family Life in Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Peg Hess, Brenda McGowan, and Michael Botsko

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Paper, 256 pages, 8 figures, 14 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-11595-7
$35.00 / £24.00

January, 2003
Cloth, 256 pages, 8 figures, 14 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-11594-0
$100.00 / £69.00

Introduction: The Center for Family Life and Its Programs

1. Building a Family-focused Community Centered Program: Commitments, Philosophies, and Interests

2.The Development of the Center in the Context of Child Welfare Policy and Programming

3. The Core: Family Counseling Services or "The Preventive Program"

4. The Neighborhood Foster Care Program

5. Supporting Families, Building Community, and Developing Children and Youth: The Community School Programs

6. Supporting Family and Community Development

7. Lessons Learned from the Center for Family Life in Sunset Park

Related Subjects

• Social Work

About the Author

Currently on leave from the faculty of the Columbia University School of Social Work where she served for seven years as associate dean, Dr. Peg Hess is Associate Director for Research and Scholarship at the Institute for Families in Society at the University of South Carolina. Brenda McGowan (D.S.W., Columbia University) is Ruth Harris Ottman Professor of Family and Child Welfare at the School of Social Work at Columbia University. She has written numerous articles on family preservation. Michael Botsko (Ph.D., Columbia University, School of Social Work) is the Senior Program Evaluation Associate for Bailey House in New York City and a former consultant for the Court-Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for New York.

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