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Browning, Matthew H. E. M.; Stern, Marc J.; Ardoin, Nicole M.; Heimlich, Joe E.; Petty, Robert; Charles, Cheryl – Environmental Education Research, 2017
While nature center's missions often point to connecting people to nature in various ways, their potential to provide a broader array of services to their communities remains largely unexplored. To better understand the values local community members hold for nature centers, we conducted survey research around 16 centers in the United States.…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Resources, Community Services, Factor Analysis
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Smith, Emilie Phillips; Faulk, Monique; Sizer, Monteic A. – Youth & Society, 2016
Community contexts are important ecological settings related to problem behavior and positive youth development (PYD). While substantial work has focused on neighborhood disadvantage, the current study explores the role of community assets, specifically linkages to important institutional resources and people in those settings. These concepts are…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Behavior Problems, Youth, Case Studies
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Kupferman, Scott I.; Schultz, Jared C. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2015
We began the exploratory process of identifying knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are important for disability service professionals to possess in order to provide beneficial services to students with psychiatric disabilities in postsecondary education. Using a three-round Delphi survey, two groups of experts identified 54 knowledge, skill,…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, College Students, Student Needs, Delphi Technique