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Gantner, Leigh A.; Olson, Christine M. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Community-based interventions to promote healthy weights by making environmental and policy changes in communities may be an important strategy in reversing the obesity epidemic. However, challenges faced by local public health professionals in facilitating effective environmental and policy change need to be better understood and addressed. To…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Personnel, Body Weight, Obesity
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Perkins, Daniel F.; Feinberg, Mark E.; Greenberg, Mark T.; Johnson, Lesley E.; Chilenski, Sarah Meyer; Mincemoyer, Claudia C.; Spoth, Richard L. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
Because they often set out with a guarantee of only short-term funding, many community partnerships will face a threat to their sustainability almost as soon as the first money runs out. Research into the factors that enable some coalitions and partnerships to meet the challenge when others fail is limited. This study begins to fill this gap in…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Sustainability, Youth Programs, Substance Abuse
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Chen, Xinguang; Ren, Yuanjing; Lin, Feng; MacDonell, Karen; Jiang, Yifan – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Smoking remains prevalent among US youth despite decades of antismoking efforts. Effects from exposure to prevention programs at national level may provide informative and compelling data supporting better planning and strategy for tobacco control. A national representative sample of youth 12-17 years of age from the National Survey on Drug Use…
Descriptors: Intervention, Smoking, Prevention, Drug Use
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Batsche, C.; Hernandez, M.; Montenegro, M. C. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1999
Describes methods to increase the participation of Hispanic residents in community-needs-assessment activities based on experiences in Tampa (Florida). Includes suggestions for defining the population, estimating population size, selecting the sample, translating instruments, and administering the survey. (SLD)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Hispanic Americans, Needs Assessment, Participation
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Ford, Lucy; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991
Differences in service utilization and community adjustment between community mental health clients with and without substance abuse disorders were studied for 144 outpatients, 37 percent of whom had dual diagnoses (substance abuse and another disorder). The association of dual diagnosis with poor service use and adjustment is discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Community Programs
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Dennis, Michael L.; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
Research on vocational services for methadone clients is reviewed, and preliminary results of an evaluation of a training and employment program for 249 methadone treatment clients in 3 community-based programs are presented. Results suggest the usefulness of vocational services in increasing training access and use. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Programs, Drug Rehabilitation, Employment Programs
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Wechsberg, Wendee M.; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1994
This pretest/posttest study used two samples of injecting drug users (184 from street outreach and 103 from a methadone program) to assess drug use and human immunodeficiency virus risk practices. The improvement in risk behaviors at posttest suggests that intervention programs were agents of change. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Behavior Change, Change Agents, Community Programs
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Fielden, Sarah J.; Rusch, Melanie L.; Masinda, Mambo Tabu; Sands, Jim; Frankish, Jim; Evoy, Brian – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2007
Community-academic partnership research is a fairly new genre of community-based participatory research. It has arisen in part, from recognition of the potential role of alliances in the development and translation of applied knowledge and the elimination of health disparities. This paper reports on the learning process of academic and community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Program Design, Participatory Research
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Rose, Tom; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991
This section presents two pragmatic studies focusing on a real-life situation and specific applications in managerial decision making. One study deals with improving occupational safety in a bedding manufacturing plant, whereas the other concentrates on managing a state mental health program. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Programs, Decision Making, Epistemology
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Massey, Oliver T.; Wu, Liang – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1994
Assessments of 41 mentally ill adults (consumers of mental health services) of their level of functioning were compared with assessments by family members and mental health services case managers. Moderate correlations are found among the perspectives, and the relevance of the three perspectives for community-based service provision is discussed.…
Descriptors: Ability, Administrators, Adults, Community Programs