Research is critical for effective and innovative social work practice, yet workers do not always have time to engage with research there are limited accounts of how practitioners can undertake in practical meaningful terms (Mitchell, Lunt, Shaw 2010). Using a reflective, storytelling methodology (Beresford Citation2016), which centres experiential knowledge, we describe one regional teaching p...

The economic and social barriers to the academic and social success of many African American children remain in place as the new millennium begins. These realities provide impetus for developing community-based partnership education programs designed to self-empower African American children for academic and social success under any socioeconomic conditions that exist in their lives. Progress t...