Community Asset Mapping

<div>Community asset mapping is the process through which local leaders identify and take inventory of physical and social assets in the city spanning from major industries to cultural groups, and community leaders.</div>

Community Asset Mapping

<div>Community asset mapping is the process through which local leaders identify and take inventory of physical and social assets in the city spanning from major industries to cultural groups, and community leaders.</div>

Asset Mapping in Urban Environments to Support Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Public schools located within urban environments are a critical component of a larger social network in their communities, with important reciprocal interactions occurring across settings. This is especially important for students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD), as integration and alignment of home, community, and school intervention programming is essential for their outcomes. However, teachers often have a deficit-perspective of urban communities and lack the skills to identify assets that may support generalization of interventions for students with EBD in a variety of settings. Asset mapping is one way to help special education teachers reframe this perspective. Definitions of assets and the asset mapping process, as well as practical recommendations for special education teachers to identify assets within their school community environment, are provided.

Asset Mapping as a Research Tool for Community-Based Participatory Research in Social Work

Participatory research approaches such as community-based participatory research (CBPR) have emerged as an innovative way of conducting social work research. As social work researchers increasingly incorporate participatory approaches, they adopt and adapt research methods and procedures to fit participatory models. One such procedure, asset mapping, provides an appropriate method for conducting research and is particularly well suited to both the CBPR approach and social work's strengths-based approach to social issues. Although asset mapping as a community practice technique is not new to social work, it has been seldom used as a research tool in social work research and is generally not introduced as a research method in social work courses or in social work research textbooks.