Empowering Latinas

Empowering Latinas
Author: Yasmin Davidds-Garrido
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Addresses a variety of issues Latina women face in the twenty-first century, including sexuality, shame, mental health, and the idea of equality with men, and discusses how they can break through society's boundaries to lead better lives.

Social Work Practice with Latinos

Social Work Practice with Latinos
Author: Rich Furman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780190616496

Latinos are now the largest ethnic minority population in the United States and still they encounter a great deal of misunderstanding, prejudice, and discrimination. Utilizing a strengths-based perspective, Social Work Practice with Latinos addresses the unique needs of this diverse population. Written by practitioners and scholars from many disciplines, this book discusses social issues of consequence to Latinos and specific strengths and risk factors of the Latino community. They then offer methods that utilize these strengths to ensure a culturally-competent approach to practice with Latino populations. Each chapter is accompanied by key questions for personal and group reflection to facilitate discussion and understanding of these vital themes. The editors have nearly three decades of combined experience working with Latino populations inside and outside the United States. Drawing on this experience, they integrate these varied perspectives to prepare students and practitioners for practice with this richly diverse community.

Empowering Latina/o Families to Navigate College Access

Empowering Latina/o Families to Navigate College Access
Author: Maria de Jesus Cisneros-Elias
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

As the number of Latinas/os in California increases to one in four residents, the number of Latinas/os earning bachelor’s degrees remains low – 12% (College Campaign, 2015). Given the current education crisis of Latinas/os, it has become increasingly important to understand ways to increase access to college for Latina/o youth. Research has found that these families teach and create a culture of education for their children through emotional support and consejos advice-giving narratives to life lessons (Chavira et al., 2016; Kiyama, 2011). Tara Yosso’s Community Cultural Wealth (CCW, Yosso, 2005) framework guides the current study, challenging the Latina/o deficit literature and outlines the strengths held within the Latina/o community and other undeserved communities. The CCW model posits that Latina/o families are rich in wealth in the form of capital. The focus of current study is to examine the CCW that Latino families possess and the agency acquired of the students through the empowerment of an intervention program for families and their youth. This study found Latina/o adolescents hold high educational aspirations for themselves regardless of their parents’ formal education in the United States. Additionally, adolescents expressed agency toward their educational pursuit. These results give us an in depth look at how adolescents perceive their parents’ support, help, and encouragement through cultural wealth and how it interacts with their own educational aspirations for their future. This study further allows us to see how a college information intervention may help Latina/o immigrant families increase in cultural wealth and teach them a concrete path to obtain their educational aspirations.

Involving Latino Families in Schools

Involving Latino Families in Schools
Author: Concha Delgado Gaitan
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2004-03-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483362493

The author provides practical strategies for cultivating communication with Latino parents and including the Latino family in developing sustained academic improvement.

Empowering Spanish Speakers

Empowering Spanish Speakers
Author: Jacqueline Zaleski MacKenzie
Publisher: Summerland Corporation Atc
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781936425006

Mackenzie's book attempts to explain and overcome cultural differences between Americans and the growing Hispanic population of the United States, specifically Mexicans. She covers all aspects the Mexican culture from childrearing to gender roles in the extended family and workplace, the value of education to Mexicans, and the social and economic barriers that rural indigenous Mexicans face.