Preserving and Stengthening Small Towns and Rural Communities
SECTION 1 – INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
Chapter 1 Small Towns and Rural Communities: From Romantic Notions
to Harsh Realities
Iris B. Carlton-LaNey, Richard L. Edwards, and P. Nelson Reid
SECTION II – ISSUES CONFRONTING SMALL TOWNS
AND RURAL COMMUNITIES
Chapter 2 Strengthening Services in Rural Communities through
Blended Funding
Ellen Russell Dunbar
Chapter 3 A Strengths-Based Approach to Rural Sustainable Development
Craig White and Kathleen Marks
Chapter 4 Restructuring the Delivery of Rural Human Services:
The Southern Illinois Experience
Patsy Dills Tracy, Joanne Chezem, and Martin B. Tracy
Chapter 5 Squeals and Deals: The Impact of Corporate Hog Farming on
Rural Communities
Judith A. Davenport and Joseph Davenport III
SECTION III – THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILIES
Chapter 6 Family Preservation in Rural Communities: Is It Working?
Sharon B. Templeman
Chapter 7 Assessing the Traning Needs of Rural Foster Parents
Ellen L. Csikai and Kathleen Belanger
Chapter 8 Family Violence in Rural Areas: Law Enforcement and
Social Workers Together for Change
T. Laine Scales and H. Stephen Cooper
SECTION IV – EXEMPLARY SERVICES AND PROGRAMS
Chapter 9 Managed Behavioral Health Care in a Rural Environment: Carolina Alternatives
Anna Scheyett and Thomas Fuhrman
Chapter 10 A Crisis Intervention Program for Hurrican Fran Survivors in Rural North
Carolina: Project HOPE
Deborah Zuver
Chapter 11 Rural Suicide Survivors: An Exploration of Perceptions about
Professional Support, Social Support, and Stigma
Ameda A. Manetta
Chapter 12 Enhanced Employee Assistance Program Services for Rural
TANF Recipients
Amelia C. Roberts, Smith Worth, and Raymond Kirk
Chapter 13 Welfare Reform and Demand for Rural Public Transportation
Kenneth T. Wedel and Fran C. Butler
Chapter 14 Small Town Murals: Remembering Rural Roots
Judson H. Morris, Jr., and Lynne Clemmons Morris
Chapter 15 Building Support for Rural Elderly People with Mental Illness:
The Carolina Companions Project
Anne-Linda Furstenberg and Denise Gammonley
SECTION V – ACKNOWLEDGING AND CELEBRATING DIVERSITY
Chapter 16 - Change and Survival in a Small, Rural, Multiracial Southern Town
Robert Blundo, Clyde McDaniel, and Frank Wilson
Chapter 17 Listening for a Change: Strategies for Community-Based
Health Promotion Research in Rural Communities
Eugenia Eng, Mary Altpeter, and Edith A. Parker
Chapter 18 Returning to Rural Roots: African American Return Migrants’
Use of Senior Centers
Cheryl Waites and Iris B. Carlton-LaNey
Chapter 19 – Antiracist Social Work Curriculum Development for Preserving
and Strengthening Indigenous Communities in Rural New Brunswick, Canada
Rosemary A. Clews
SECTION VI- ENHANCING SERVICE DELIVERY THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 20- Information Needs of Rural Agencies: Ethical and Practice Considerations
Lynne Clemmons Morris, Robert O. Rich, and William C. Horner
Chapter 21 Rural Information and Referral Services: Serving North Carolina’s
Elderly Population
Laura I. Zimmerman and Natasha K. Bowen
Chapter 22 Using Electronic Social Work to Serve the Rural Elderly Population
Paul K. Dezendorf and Ronald K. Green
SECTION VII – PREPARING SOCIAL WORKERS FOR RURAL
TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 23 Nitpicking in Rural West Virginia: The Small Stuff Does Matter
Mary Ann Yevuta
Chapter 24 Valuing Rural Community: Appalachian Social Work Students’
Perspectives on Faculty Attitudes toward Their Culture
Susanne Mosteller Rolland
Chapter 25 Attracting and Retaining Professionals for Social Work Practice
in Rural Areas: An Example from East Texas
Michael Daley and Freddie Avant
Chapter 26 Increasing the Numbers of African American Social Workers in
Rural Areas: An Example from Maryland’s Eastern Shore
Patricia P. Plaskon and Jay Bishop
Chapter 27 Using Narratives in Educating Social Workers for Rural Practice
Lena Williams Carawan, Lessie L. Bass, and Shelia Grant Bunch
SECTION VIII – ORGANIZING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
Chapter 28 – Habits of Resistance
Si Kahn
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