Neighborhood Collective Efficacy as a Culturally Responsive Resilience Process: A Longitudinal Study of African American Youth From Fragile Families

2021 ◽  
pp. 104438942110484
Author(s):  
Ashley N. Prowell
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Resilience Process ◽  
Neighborhood Collective Efficacy ◽  
Curve Modeling

A reliance on informal supports and neighborhood relationships has its history within the African American community as a useful strategy for building and maintaining overall resilience. It is known that a history of systemic oppression gave rise to distinct cultural barriers to social services and resources, leading to a reliance on community to help foster success in the African American community. Thus, the notion of neighborhood collective efficacy (NCE) is assumed to be a valuable protective process to explore for African American youth. The current exploratory study utilizes multilevel growth curve modeling to examine the relationship between NCE and aspects of resilience over time. Findings reveal a significant, positive relationship and important implications for culturally responsive study and practice.

The Personal Responsibility Act of 1996: The Bitter and the Sweet for African American Families

1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome H. Schiele
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
African American Families ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Service Delivery System ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Contract With America ◽  
American Families

The Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 represents the most tangible legacy of the 104th Congress and the Republicans' ‘Contract with America.’ Though the act will have devastating consequences for all poor and working-class families, its effects on the African American community will be especially ominous. This is because African American families experience poverty at a greater rate than do European American and other families. More over, the feature of the act that reduces the amount of financial assistance to families when one of their members has been convicted of a drug-related felony will also endanger African American families since African Americans are most likely to be convicted of drug-related crimes. In the midst of these harsh outcomes, the feature of the act that allows states to establish contracts with religious organizations could bode well for aggrandizing the role the black church can play in providing social services and employment opportunities for African American families. This paper examines the paradoxes the act poses for African American families and offers suggestions to assist the African American community in meeting the challenges and exploiting the opportunities of a rapidly changing social service delivery system.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Almeda M. Wright
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Young People ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Highly Active

Young African Americans regularly experience racism, poverty, sexism, violence, and other affronts to their humanity. Though they are often highly active and vocal contributors to their churches, schools, and neighborhood communities, they are often silent about the possibility of God working to address the injustices in their lives. The disconnection between the issues young people face, their community involvement, and their conceptions of God point toward the pervasiveness of “fragmented” spirituality among African American youth. Spiritual fragmentation does not necessarily inhibit healthy development or functioning. However, the African American community and church are at risk if they fail to challenge the myth that the personal and the communal or the spiritual and political are in fact disconnected. But why are African American Christian adolescents experiencing spiritual fragmentation? Is spiritual fragmentation symptomatic of an irreparable chasm between the Black church and Black youth? Or are there other factors at play?

Culturally Responsive Practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 599-616
Author(s):  
Tricia Crosby-Cooper ◽  
Natasha Ferrell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
African American ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
Positive Mental Health ◽  
Culturally Responsive Practices ◽  
Behavioral Expectations ◽  
Mental Health Difficulties ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Support Students

Achieving positive mental health is a worthy desire as positive mental health leads to better success in all aspects of life. Unfortunately, for some youth, achieving positive mental health is a struggle. African Americans demonstrate mental health difficulties approximately 20% more than their White counterparts. To address mental health concerns, schools have increasingly implemented multi-tiered supports to better identify and support students. Unfortunately, interventions implemented in schools have largely ignored the impact that race, culture, and behavioral expectations have on the mental health of African American youth. African American youth exhibit symptoms and behaviors of mental health similar to youth of other cultures and races, yet they experience lower levels of mental health services. To help African American youth experiencing mental health difficulties, stakeholders must implement culturally responsive, evidence-based interventions.

Culturally Responsive Practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 727-744
Author(s):  
Tricia Crosby-Cooper ◽  
Natasha Ferrell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
African American ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
Positive Mental Health ◽  
Culturally Responsive Practices ◽  
Behavioral Expectations ◽  
Mental Health Difficulties ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Support Students

Achieving positive mental health is a worthy desire as positive mental health leads to better success in all aspects of life. Unfortunately, for some youth, achieving positive mental health is a struggle. African Americans demonstrate mental health difficulties approximately 20% more than their White counterparts. To address mental health concerns, schools have increasingly implemented multi-tiered supports to better identify and support students. Unfortunately, interventions implemented in schools have largely ignored the impact that race, culture, and behavioral expectations have on the mental health of African American youth. African American youth exhibit symptoms and behaviors of mental health similar to youth of other cultures and races, yet they experience lower levels of mental health services. To help African American youth experiencing mental health difficulties, stakeholders must implement culturally responsive, evidence-based interventions.

Culturally Responsive Practices

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Tricia Crosby-Cooper ◽  
Natasha Ferrell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
African American ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
Positive Mental Health ◽  
Culturally Responsive Practices ◽  
Behavioral Expectations ◽  
Mental Health Difficulties ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Support Students

Achieving positive mental health is a worthy desire as positive mental health leads to better success in all aspects of life. Unfortunately, for some youth, achieving positive mental health is a struggle. African Americans demonstrate mental health difficulties approximately 20% more than their White counterparts. To address mental health concerns, schools have increasingly implemented multi-tiered supports to better identify and support students. Unfortunately, interventions implemented in schools have largely ignored the impact that race, culture, and behavioral expectations have on the mental health of African American youth. African American youth exhibit symptoms and behaviors of mental health similar to youth of other cultures and races, yet they experience lower levels of mental health services. To help African American youth experiencing mental health difficulties, stakeholders must implement culturally responsive, evidence-based interventions.

scholarly journals Using Community Arts Events to Enhance Collective Efficacy and Community Engagement toAddress Depression in an African American Community

2009 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bowen Chung ◽  
Loretta Jones ◽  
Andrea Jones ◽  
Charles E. Corbett ◽  
Theodore Booker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Community Arts

Improvisation as a Concept for Understanding and Treating Violent Behavior among African American Youth

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (7) ◽  
pp. 444-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter J. Pierce ◽  
Sharron M. Singleton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Violent Behavior ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Behavioral Style

The prevalence of violent behavior among African American youth poses a serious threat to society in general and to the African American community in particular. Current efforts to stem the tide of violent behavior have focused primarily on mentoring and threat of punishment as deterrents. The authors present the concept of improvisation as a lens through which to view and analyze the behavioral style of African American youth. Information is presented relative to the use of improvisation as a preventive and rehabilitative strategy for intervening with African American youth.

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