Free To Grow
Mailman School
of Public Health
Columbia University
722 West 168th Street,
8th Floor
New York, NY 10032
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Empowerment and Latino families
Kathy Goetz, Editor
This special journal issue, with contributions by noted Latino scholars and activists, explores the diversity of Latino families in the United States. Current social policies and service delivery systems, the contributors argue, have neglected and often weakened Latino families. They describe effective programs to improve child and family well-being that are sensitive to ethnic and cultural subgroups and that help empower them to improve the quality of their family lives and bring about social change. Demographers project that Latinos will be the largest U.S. minority group by the next decade. Currently two out of five Latino children are born poor. Issues include how researchers perceive Latino families; the role of child welfare and family support services in Latino culture; the effects of poverty on Latino family health; spirituality and religion in Latino identity; and public policy as a factor in Latino poverty. Program profiles cover school-linked parent empowerment training; preschool and day care for migrant families; adolescent alternative programs; mental illness community education; programs for people with disabilities; and family support programs that include youths and senior citizens.
Family Resource Coalition Report, Fall/Winter 1994-95, 13(3-4): 1-46
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