1st Edition
Community Development for Times of Crisis Creating Caring Communities
1. Creating Caring Communities to Overcome Times of Crisis
Mark A. Brennon, Norman Walzer, Rhonda Phillips, and Brent D. Hales
SECTION I: UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY, DEVELOPMENT, AND CAPACITY BUILDING
2. Community as a Mechanism for Transcending Wellbeing at the Individual, Social, and Ecological Levels
Eric C. Larson, A.E. Luloff, Jeffrey C. Bridger and Mark A. Brennan
3. Conceptualizing Community Resilience
David Matarrita-Cascante, Bernardo Trejos, Hua Qin, Dongoh Joo and Sigrid Debner
4. A Community Resilience Framework for Community Development Practitioners Building Equity and Adaptive Capacity
Anne Cafer, John Green, and Gary Goreham
5. Community Resilience and Community Development: What Mutual Opportunities Arise from Interactions between the Two Concepts?
Jim Cavaye and Helen Ross
SECTION II: CRITICAL HUMAN AND COMMUNITY CONSIDERATIONS BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER CRISIS
6. Ensuring Social Justice in Times of Crisis
Nicole Webster, Ashley Patterson, and Robert Simmons III
7. Issues of Race, Inequality, and Disaster at the Community Level
T.C. Caterina-Knorr, Ware, J.A., and C.A. Talmage
8. Responding to Social Isolation among Older Adults through Lifelong Learning: Lessons and Questions during COVID-19
Craig A. Talmage, Abby Lehr Baker, M. Aaron Guest, and Richard C. Knopf
9. Community Recovery, a New Value Proposition for Community Investment
James Calvin
10. The Role of Social Cohesion in Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health within Marginalized Communities
Joongsub Kim
11. Community and COVID-19 Across Australia: Contextual Considerations
Sue Kenny
SECTION III: BEYOND STRUCTURAL RESPONSES: FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENTS FOR SUPPORTIVE, STRONG COMMUNITIES
12. Community Resilience 2.0: Toward a Comprehensive Conception of Community-Level Resilience
Lieselotte E. Vaneeckhaute, Tom Vanwing, Wolfgang Jacquet, Bieke Abelshausen, and Pieter Meurs
13. Empathy, Social Support, and Community: The Intersection of Concepts in Achieving Caring Communities
Pat Dolan
14. The Centrality of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to Community and Crisis Response: An Interactional Approach
Brad Olson and Mark Brennan
15. Leading Communities in Times of Uncertainty
Suzanna Windon and Brent Hales
SECTION IV: TOWARD CARING COMMUNITIES
16. Beyond Recovery and Resilience: Achieving Caring Communities
Belgin Uçar Kocaoğlu, Mehmet Kocaoğlu, and Rhonda Phillips
17. A Model for Making Caring Communities a Reality
Cornelia C. Walther
18. Conclusions: Aspiring to Become Caring Communities
Norman Walzer, Mark A. Brennan, Rhonda Phillips, and Brent D. Hales
Biography
Mark A. Brennan is a Professor and UNESCO Chair in Community, Leadership, and Youth Development at The Pennsylvania State University.
Rhonda Phillips is a Professor and Dean of the John Martinson Honors College, Purdue University.
Norman Walzer is a Professor Emeritus at the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, Western Illinois University.
Brent D. Hales is Associate Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences and the Director of Penn State Extension.
