Great Plains Restoration Council's program Restoration Not Incarceration™ is featured as a case study in the new book Environmental Social Work, published by Routledge Press 2013.
With twin issues of trauma and crisis affecting both Earth and people -- and society's very sustainability at stake -- GPRC is proud to be at the forefront of merging the health of both people and the Earth through the work and story of protecting America's endangered grasslands.
Chapter 9: Restoration Not Incarceration: An environmentally based pilot initiative for working with young offenders, by Dr. Christine Norton, of Texas State University, and Social Worker Barbara Holguin, is based on our first year developing Esteban Park in urban Houston as a coastal prairie refuge and Ecological Health demonstration site.
Work on Esteban Park continues, and will be a springboard for much public education and a work amplifier for other and larger landscape-level preserves. Stay tuned for more news as the Esteban Park effort grows.
Excerpt from the Introduction to Environmental Social Work:
"This book provides the first concerted overview and analysis of social work's relatively recent engagement with the modern environmental movement. ...Calls for a paradigm shift within social work arise in the context of a developing ecological consciousness among social work scholars and practitioners who see environmental social work as an essential though undeveloped area of professional scholarship and practice."
Environmental Social Work is available now on Amazon. You can also ask your local bookstore or library to order it. It's a little pricey because it's a new academic book, but it's an excellent, important book -- well worth reading. For those connected with academia, please take a moment to encourage your local university or college to include it in course study.
Published by Routledge Press © 2013 Mel Gray, John Coates, Tiani Hetherington
Thanks!
-Great Plains Restoration Council
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