Download or read book Resident Involvement in Community Change written by Karen Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resident Engagement and Leadership to Improve Results for Children and Youth Families and Communities written by Center for the Study of Social Policy, Washington, DC. and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaging Residents to Improve Results for Children and Youth, Families and Communities" is a "Toolkit" that is the product of an international working group composed of delegates from six participating nations--Chile, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2002, the working group set out to identify and share the best examples of resident engagement in results-based work from their respective countries. Participants hoped the product of their work, this Toolkit, would achieve three goals: (1) To describe the overall "results-based" approaches on behalf of children and families that are being used in the participating nations, both at the local and national levels; (2) To share information about effective strategies that are being used to ensure that residents are at the forefront of these efforts; and (3) To make available the "tools"--i.e., the techniques, methods, processes and products--that have facilitated resident leadership and engagement in each country. The Toolkit is designed to assist residents and parents, as well as other practitioners and "change agents," who are working in community change initiatives that use a results-based framework. The Toolkit suggests activities and resources that have proved useful on many levels for other communities that have sought authentic and sustained involvement of community residents. In addition, the Toolkit may be useful to policymakers, elected officials and members of public and private service agencies and community organizations who are promoting the well-being of children, families and neighborhoods; the case studies of projects and initiatives, in particular, may help them to see the value of working in partnership with residents. [This document was organized by The International Initiative for Children, Youth, and Families and The Center for the Study of Social Policy.].
Download or read book A Community in Transition the Resident Perspective in Oak Park written by Sharon A. Eghigian and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social scientists have attempted to learn how, why and with what level of success residents in low-income communities respond to challenges such as crime, violence, and a lack of resources. Social scientist have examined many factors to learn more about how residents become involved in community engagement, including the impact of concentrated poverty and the role of local neighborhood associations. The many factors studied in community engagement as well as the often contradicting results, point to the complexity of the issue of resident engagement and the need for additional research, including studies using a qualitative approach. One area that is not well represented in the literature is the perspective of residents on how change happens in the community and how residents perceive and evaluate their role in community change. The purpose of this study was to learn how residents in Oak Park, an economically challenged and racially diverse neighborhood in Sacramento, perceived and evaluated their role in community change. Data were gathered through conducting semi-structured individual interviews with 11 residents who had participated in the Neighborhood Association for a minimum of three years. During these interviews, residents shared the importance of connection, both to other residents and to the community. This connection led to their investment of time and energy into the community. Residents also shared the importance of the Neighborhood Association in focusing and directing efforts to make changes to the community. The contributions of this study include providing new information about how gender and length of time in the community affected residents' perceptions of their role and its subsequent impact. This study also provided information on changes in resident efforts as the community changed over time.
Download or read book Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing Related Health Hazards Involving Children written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children explores the ethical issues posed when conducting research designed to identify, understand, or ameliorate housing-related health hazards among children. Such research involves children as subjects and is conducted in the home and in communities. It is often conducted with children in low-income families given the disproportionate prevalence of housing-related conditions such as lead poisoning, asthma, and fatal injuries among these children. This book emphasizes five key elements to address the particular ethical concerns raised by these characteristics: involving the affected community in the research and responding to their concerns; ensuring that parents understand the essential elements of the research; adopting uniform federal guidelines for such research by all sponsors (Subpart D of 45 CFR 46); providing guidance on key terms in the regulations; and viewing research oversight as a system with important roles for researchers, IRBs and their research institutions, sponsors and regulators of research, and the community.
Download or read book A Twenty First Century Approach to Community Change written by Larry M. Gant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban renewal has been the dominant approach to revitalizing industrialized communities that fall into decline. A national, community-based organization, the Skillman Foundation sought to engage in a joint effort with the University of Michigan's School of Social Work to bring six neighborhoods in one such declining urban center, Detroit, back to positions of strength and national leadership. A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change introduces readers to the basis for the Foundation's solicitation of social work expertise and the social context within which the work of technical assistance began. Building on research, the authors introduce the theory and practice knowledge of earlier scholars, including the conduct of needs assessments at multiple levels, engagement of community members in identifying problem-solving strategies, assistance in developing community goals, and implementation of social work field instruction opportunities. Lessons learned and challenges are described as they played out in the process of creating partnerships for the Foundation with community leaders, engaging and maintaining youth involvement, managing roles and relationships with multiple partners recruited by the Foundation for their specialized expertise, and ultimately conducting the work of technical assistance within a context of increasing influence of the city's surrounding systems (political, economic, educational, and social). Readers will especially note the role of technical assistance in an evolving theory of change.
Download or read book A Twenty First Century Approach to Community Change written by Larry M. Gant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban renewal has been the dominant approach to revitalizing industrialized communities that fall into decline. A national, community-based organization, the Skillman Foundation sought to engage in a joint effort with the University of Michigan's School of Social Work to bring six neighborhoods in one such declining urban center, Detroit, back to positions of strength and national leadership. A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change introduces readers to the basis for the Foundation's solicitation of social work expertise and the social context within which the work of technical assistance began. Building on research, the authors introduce the theory and practice knowledge of earlier scholars, including the conduct of needs assessments at multiple levels, engagement of community members in identifying problem-solving strategies, assistance in developing community goals, and implementation of social work field instruction opportunities. Lessons learned and challenges are described as they played out in the process of creating partnerships for the Foundation with community leaders, engaging and maintaining youth involvement, managing roles and relationships with multiple partners recruited by the Foundation for their specialized expertise, and ultimately conducting the work of technical assistance within a context of increasing influence of the city's surrounding systems (political, economic, educational, and social). Readers will especially note the role of technical assistance in an evolving theory of change.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book 50 Years of Community Development Vol II written by Norman Walzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues pertinent to both research and practice of community development. The evolution of community development as an area of scholarship and application, and the subsequent founding of the discipline, is vital to capture. At the 50-year mark, it is particularly relevant to revisit issues that reoccur throughout the last five decades and look at approaches to addressing them. These include issues and themes around equity and inclusion, collective impact, leadership and policy development, as well as resilience and sustainability. Community change over time has much to teach us, and this set will provide a foundation for fostering understanding of the history of community development and its focus on community change. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Community Development.
Download or read book Research Methods for Community Change written by Randy Stoecker and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-02-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an engaging, friendly style and numerous real world examples, Randy Stoecker presents an in-depth review of all of the research methods that communities use to solve problems, develop their resources, and protect their identities.
Download or read book What is Happening in Your Community written by Matthew J. Hanka and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communities are not static or stationary organisms. They are fluid and dynamic and change over time. The role of community development in the change and transformation of a community is critical to improving and enhancing the quality of life of the community and its residents. This book examines how community development changes a community and why that change matters, while also examining the relationship between community development and social capital. When a community improves its social capital, change can happen because people can leverage their networks to produce better results for themselves. This book also looks at comprehensive community development and collective impact models and several case studies that utilize these models. It also looks at how the transformation and revitalization of a neighborhood through new housing creates opportunities for people everywhere, and how effective placemaking strategies empower diverse groups of people in a community to reimagine their public spaces and the built environment to be more livable, walkable, creative, and sustainable while fostering greater connections with people in their community.
Download or read book The Tenants Movement written by Quintin Bradley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tenants' Movement is both a history of tenant organization and mobilization, and a guide to understanding how the struggles of tenant organizers have come to shape housing policy today. Charting the history of tenant mobilization, and the rise of consumer movements in housing, it is one of the first cross-cultural, historical analyses of tenants’ organizations’ roles in housing policy. The Tenants' Movement shows both the past and future of tenant mobilization. The book’s approach applies social movement theory to housing studies, and bridges gaps between research in urban sociology, urban studies, and the built environment, and provides a challenging study of the ability of contemporary social movements, community campaigns and urban struggles to shape the debate around public services and engage with the unfinished project of welfare reform.
Download or read book Community based Participatory Research written by United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Family and Community Partnerships written by Joyce L. Epstein and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
Download or read book Sustaining Neighborhood Change The Power of Resident Leadership Social Networks and Community Mobilization Making Connections written by Nilofer Ahsan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty and unemployment aren't spread evenly across cities or regions, but rather are concentrated in disinvested urban neighborhoods and rural communities around the country. These communities are home to the nation's most vulnerable children and families. Despite some signs of improvement in economic conditions for families in the United States, persistent and widening gaps in income, employment, assets, and school success exist. Many families remain cut off from the opportunities and supports they need to succeed as parents and in the workforce. "Making Connections", an initiative of the Casey Foundation, works to improve the lives and prospects of families and children living in some of America's toughest neighborhoods. "Making Connections" works to increase family income and assets; ensure that young children have what they need to do well in school; and promote strong resident leadership, civic participation, social networks, and community mobilization. "Making Connections" was launched in 1999 in ten sites around the country to put the foundation's ideas to work. This guide is one of four that the Foundation's Technical Assistance Resource Center has prepared that reflect what they have learned from this initiative and the amazing people who have led it. They offer the guides in the hope that people might find something useful and inspiring that will encourage them join them and will aid their own efforts. "Sustaining Neighborhood Change: The Power of Resident Leadership, Social Networks, and Community Mobilization" is designed to help individuals--neighborhood residents, service agencies, community organizations, local foundations, nonprofit groups, and policymakers--make the most of their investments of time and resources in the work of "Making Connections". This guide documents some of the research, lessons, and best practices from their unfolding work in "Making Connections" neighborhoods. Technical Assistance Resources Available to Sites is appended. (Contains 3 footnotes.).
Download or read book Public housing HOPE VI resident issues and changes in neighborhoods surrounding grant sites written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reorganizing and Reauthorizing the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organizing for Community Controlled Development written by Patricia W. Murphy and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-01-23 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines solid research, observation, and practical experience that speak forcefully to the need for both local place-based development and greater citizen involvement.
