The resilience of the settlement-house tradition in community development: a study of neighborhood centers in San Francisco

Yan, Miu Chung; Sin, Rick

doi:10.1080/15575330.2010.488740

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“…As both residents in the neighbourhood and users of the NHs, they bring local knowledge to their work and ground their services on fellow residents' needs. As previous studies (Yan and Lauer, 2008;Yan and Sin, 2010) have found, this multi-ethnic and multi-lingual workforce is seen by NH leadership as an important tool for building community. It is an important linchpin of NHs' connection with local residents, particularly ethno-racial minority immigrants.…”

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“…Recently, this observation was bolstered by the findings of two exploratory studies on NHs, one in San Francisco (Yan and Sin, 2010) and one in Vancouver (Yan and Lauer, 2008). These two studies also provide some insight into how contemporary NHs have tried to actualize the SH tradition in ethno-racially diverse communities.…”

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“…The last two decades have seen only a handful of studies on NHs. With one exception (Yan and Lauer, 2008), these studies have looked only at NHs in the United States tending to focus on their financial challenges (Fabricant and Fisher, 2002), capacity and services (Koerin, 2003; Poole and Colby, 2002), functions in connecting people in the community (Lauer and Yan, 2013; Yan and Lauer, 2008) and efforts in community building (Hirota et al, 1997; Yan and Sin, 2010). While these studies consistently find that NHs have committed to and been successful in generating community assets as a community-building process, they raise the concern of the negative impacts of over-reliance on government funding on NHs’ community-building capacity.…”

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Incorporating individual community assets in neighbourhood houses: Beyond the community-building tradition of settlement houses

Yan

Lauer

Riaño‐Alcalá

2016

International Social Work

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As a global movement, neighbourhood houses (NHs) are found in urban communities all over the world. Following the community-building tradition of early settlement houses, NHs have been actively nurturing and mobilizing community assets to serve the local community, but it is not known whether NHs have incorporated these assets in their infrastructure. This article reports the findings of a clearinghouse survey of 15 NHs in Metro Vancouver, Canada, which indicate that they nurtured community assets and incorporated them into their infrastructure as paid staff. Yet at the leadership level, the incorporation falls short of ethno-racial minority members from the community.

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Riaño‐Alcalá

2016

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“…This social mission for the underserved is today mostly diminished as the public library has shifted its status to being a cultural concern of the middle classes, and "only in service to children does the old missionary zeal linger with any real success" (Lerner 2009, 125). During the course of the twentieth century, public libraries largely left the context of community-based, targeted social support, whereas the legacy of settlement houses can still be found in today's neighborhood centers (Yan and Sin 2011).…”

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“…They were efforts to strengthen communities through negation of social class gaps, mainly by supporting immigrants. The local settlement house both provided day-to-day services for individuals in need and engaged in long-term reform work (Koerin 2003;Yan and Sin 2011). …”

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Collections Redux: The Public Library as a Place of Community Borrowing

Söderholm¹,

Nolin²

2015

The Library Quarterly

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A B S T R A C TThis article presents an overview of the Western public library's development into its present form(s) and its shift to the prevailing social perspective. This leads to a discussion of "digital and point-oh libraries" as one of two major strands and "social space and place" as the other. Our main critique is that this development has caused an unfortunate downplay of societal perspectives in favor of a focus on social issues. Another side effect is a growing lack of attention to the potential of physical, on-site collections. By proposing a specific counterexample, we discuss library collections as a community concern and as a step toward bridging the social-societal gap. The potential of a redefined on-site collection is set against the backdrop of public libraries offering nontraditional collections, such as tool-lending libraries.A predominant school of thought in LIS today is what can be framed as the social, in which the library is a locus and an enabler of social processes in the interpersonal sense. This marks a transition in which touchstones such as popular education have given room to other concepts, including communication, sociological influences, and user studies. It is a turn in how library issues are framed: from a societal perspective to a social perspective, from the building of society to the building of relations. There are two major strands currently at the forefront. They overlap in some respects but are also quite distinct. The first strand is concerned with the digital extension of libraries and includes issues spanning from backend collection management to front-end e-reading and social media. Generally the research focuses on either the "digital library" (Borgman 1999;Candela, Castelli, and Pagano 2011) or on the popular "point-oh" perspectives (Carlsson 2012;Kwanya, Stilwell, and Underwood 2013). The second strand focuses on the public library as a worldly located place of social activity. Issues concern the library as a meeting place or as an extension of other environments, such as home or work (Audunson 2005;Johannesson 2009;Skot-Hansen, Rasmussen, and Jochumsen 2013).In both cases, whether enabled by new media or by the idea of a common public space, social dimensions are in focus. The social can also be framed as an emphasis on developing (infra)structure rather than content by focusing on modes of provision, outreach strategies, accessibility, and the architecture of facilities and information.Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, vol. 85, no. 3, pp. 244-260. © 2015 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.0024-2519/2015/8503-0002$10.00 244Recently there has been a renewed interest in community engagement (Goulding 2009;Scott 2011;Sung, Hepworth, and Ragsdell 2013). This article is an effort to invigorate a "classical" societal perspective using the notion of community as a merger of societal and social approaches. Among the things we find wanting in discussions emphasizing the social is inquiry into the potential of the public library's alrea...

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Social Infrastructure and Social Capacity Development Among Newcomers to Canada: the Role of Neighborhood Houses in Vancouver

Lauer

Yan

2021

Int. Migration & Integration

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The resilience of the settlement-house tradition in community development: a study of neighborhood centers in San Francisco

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Incorporating individual community assets in neighbourhood houses: Beyond the community-building tradition of settlement houses

Incorporating individual community assets in neighbourhood houses: Beyond the community-building tradition of settlement houses

Collections Redux: The Public Library as a Place of Community Borrowing

Social Infrastructure and Social Capacity Development Among Newcomers to Canada: the Role of Neighborhood Houses in Vancouver

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