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Responding to Hard Times in the “Big Easy”: Meeting the Vocational Needs of Low‐Income African American New Orleans Residents
Author(s) -
Lyons Heather Z.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2011.tb00070.x
Subject(s) - vocational education , vulnerability (computing) , hurricane katrina , deepwater horizon , psychological intervention , african american , oil spill , sociology , economic growth , geography , political science , natural disaster , medicine , economics , environmental protection , nursing , ethnology , computer security , meteorology , computer science
The already limited vocational prospects of low‐income African Americans in New Orleans were further devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill added to the devastation, highlighting the continued vulnerability of New Orleanians seeking employment. As a result, opportunities persist for vocational practitioners to lend their expertise. In this article, the post‐Katrina vocational situation of low‐income African American residents is conceptualized using Bronfenbrenner's (1977) ecological model. Furthermore, needed interventions are described at each level of this ecological model.