Overview
- Synthesizes extensive literature on the economic value of social capital
- Offers guidance on designing, implementing, and evaluating social capital initiatives
- Describes key social capital plan components (e.g., definitions, models)
- Explores issues of returning military veterans and the millennial generation as populations prime for social capital investments
- Provides a mapping tool for creating a social capital blueprint?
Part of the book series: Issues in Children's and Families' Lives (IICL)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Civic involvement and social capital
- Civic participation and social capital
- Community development and social capital
- Community organization and social capital
- Compassionate capitalism and social capitalism
- Cost-benefit analysis of social capitalism
- Criminal behavior and social capital
- Economic prosperity and social capital
- Emotional well being and social capital
- Military veterans and social capital
- Millennial generation and social capital
- Physical health and social capital
- Political action and social capital
- Primary prevention and social capital
- Social capital curriculum
- Social capital models
- Social entrepreneurship
- Volunteerism and social capital
About this book
Featuredtopics 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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
She has served on many community boards including the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, The Garde Arts Center, Inc., the Pequot Foundation and the Florence Griswold Museum. She currently sits on the board of the Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, Read to Grow and the Gund Art Gallery at Kenyon College.
Thomas Gullotta (Tom) is Serve Here Connecticut’s Chief Advisor. Prior to this appointment he was the Chief Executive Officer of Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut retiring in 2015 and a member of the Psychology and Education Departments at Eastern Connecticut State University retiring in 2014. His scholarship encompasses the co-authorship of two college textbooks, the founding editorship of The Journal of Primary Prevention (Kluwer/Academic 1980 - 2000), co-editor, Advances in Adolescent Development: An Annual Book Series (Sage 1985 - 2000), editor, Prevention in Practice Library: A Monograph Series (Plenum, 1996 - 2001), and senior editor, Issues in Children’s' and Families' Lives: A Book Series (Springer 1990 - present).
In addition to authoring nearly 100 chapters, papers or reviews, he has co-edited or authored over thirty volumesdevoted to illness prevention / promotion of health for the treatment of children, adolescents, and families. Tom was the senior editor for the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion (Kluwer / Academic, 2003) and returned to that same role for the four volume second edition of that reference work published in early 2015.Currently, he is working on the second edition of the Handbook of Childhood Behavioral Issues to be published by Routledge.
Martin Bloom is a practicing collagist who occasionally helps Tom Gullotta with editing encyclopedia tasks, and engaged in other writing projects as befits a retired gentleman social psychologist. He is also a full-time househusband for his wife of 56 years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Capital and Community Well-Being
Book Subtitle: The Serve Here Initiative
Editors: Alva G. Greenberg, Thomas P. Gullotta, Martin Bloom
Series Title: Issues in Children's and Families' Lives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33264-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33262-8Published: 09 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93174-6Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33264-2Published: 27 July 2016
Series ISSN: 1572-1981
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 247
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Community and Environmental Psychology, Social Work, Educational Policy and Politics