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Zhou, You; Stewart, Arexy Bravo; Robinson, Jacquelyn D. – ZERO TO THREE, 2021
ParentChild+ is a national home visiting program dedicated to bridging the opportunity gap for families in marginalized communities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the program worked more closely than ever with families and family care providers with young children to ensure they had the necessary tools and resources to support their children to…
Descriptors: Home Visits, COVID-19, Pandemics, Young Children
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Fitts, Shanan; McClure, Greg – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2015
In this article, we examine the social networks of immigrant Latinas from two women's groups in northwestern North Carolina. We explore how participants built social capital and confidence in self through sharing knowledge and experiences in intimate, "mujerista" spaces. We argue that traditional analyses of social capital, framed in…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Females, Immigrants, Social Networks
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Dotson-Blake, Kylie P. – Professional School Counseling, 2010
Family-school-community partnerships are critically important for the academic success of all students. Unfortunately, in the face of specific barriers, Mexican immigrants struggle to engage in partnership efforts. In the hopes of promoting the engagement of Mexican immigrant families in partnerships, this article presents the findings of a…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, School Counselors
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Agans, Robert P.; Deeb-Sossa, Natalia; Kalsbeek, William – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2006
The aim of this article is to identify the measurement challenges involved in obtaining sensitive health outcomes from Mexican women in both settled and unsettled segments of the United States population and to suggest how cognitive assessment techniques might be better employed to construct culturally and linguistically appropriate survey…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Females, Immigrants, Surveys