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Simona C. Kwon; Julie A. Kranick; Nadia S. Islam; Laura C. Wyatt; Shilpa Patel; Gulnahar Alam; Perla Chebli; Joseph Ravenell; Perry Pong; Sara S. Kim; Victoria H. Raveis; Chau Trinh-Shevrin – Health Education & Behavior, 2025
Minoritized communities often experience worse health outcomes on the cancer continuum. Mainstream strategies may have limited reach and utility to populations experiencing inequities in real-world settings. Through the combined use of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and social marketing strategies, which highlight community-centered…
Descriptors: Marketing, Community Programs, Screening Tests, Immunization Programs
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Donaldson, Linda Plitt; Streeter, Calvin L.; Larkin, Heather; Briar-Lawson, Katharine; Meyer-Adams, Nancy; Lupfer, Kristin; Elder, Jen; Grimshaw, Angela – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
University social work programs can play a critical role in helping communities to expand local capacity in efforts to end homelessness. The Supplemental Security Income/Social Security Disability Insurance (SSI/SSDI) Outreach, Access and Recovery (SOAR) program is an evidence-based model that social work programs are advancing through…
Descriptors: Universities, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education, Homeless People
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Rodgers, Debra – London Review of Education, 2017
This paper seeks to highlight some of the key issues of the social stigma associated with mental health-related issues, to present examples of some existing anti-stigma concepts found within mental health literature and, in turn, to begin to suggest ways in which the personal and social experience of participation within community music activities…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Mental Disorders, Mental Health, Music Activities
America's Promise Alliance, 2015
This report analyzes case studies of "more and better learning time" efforts around the country. With support from the Ford Foundation, America's Promise Alliance looked in Grand Rapids, MI; Louisville, KY; Memphis, TN; and Rochester, NY to see how time spent out of the classroom improved outcomes for students in low-income neighborhoods…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Low Income Groups, Low Achievement, Program Effectiveness
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DePanfilis, Diane – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
Spreading and sustaining evidence-informed practice in child welfare is complex. In particular, putting in place an active dissemination strategy requires the recognition of these unique challenges. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how collaborative partnerships between individuals and organizations may represent an opportunity for more…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Sustainability, Evidence, Information Dissemination
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Lawson, Elaine T.; Gordon, Christopher; Mensah, Adelina; Atipoe, Esinam – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
This case study presents a detailed description of how community-based environmental education can be used to increase environment awareness and knowledge among migrant children and youth. Data was collected primarily from interviews and learning activities with 454 participants aged 11 to 19 years. The results show that children and youth are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Community Programs, Environmental Education
Center for Promise, 2013
In 2004, the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change emphasized the need for a comprehensive base of information on the effectiveness of community collaborations for youth--an accessible, evidence-rich resource that could guide local efforts to bring about meaningful change. Nearly 10 years later, this need remains largely unmet. In…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Cooperative Planning, Literature Reviews, Public Health
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Clennon, Ornette D.; Kagan, Carolyn; Lawthom, Rebecca; Swindells, Rachel – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016
In this paper, we critically reflect, through the lens of liberation psychology, on our experiences of using participative community arts in work with young people and intergenerational groups in inner-city Manchester, UK. We used mixed methods to examine the impact of and engagement with community arts in two projects. One study was quasi…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Programs, Urban Areas, Quasiexperimental Design
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Rattigan-Rohr, Jean; He, Ye; Murphy, Mary Beth; Knight, Gerald – AILACTE Journal, 2014
This paper describes a community-based after-school tutoring project, where families are participants together with their children. There are 50 family members involved in the project, several have multiple children enrolled, and four families were selected for an in-depth case study. The goals of this mixed method study were to determine why…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Tutoring, School Community Programs, Family Programs
McKone, Kelly – United States Institute of Peace, 2015
This report addresses a critical knowledge gap between reconciliation theory and practice in post-conflict settings. Spearheaded by the Center for Applied Research on Conflict at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the larger project goal is to map reconciliation practices to better understand how reconciliation is conceived, what…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Theory Practice Relationship, Social Change, Concept Mapping
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Schober, Daniel J.; Fawcett, Stephen B.; Bernier, Jetta – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2012
This case study describes the Enough Abuse Campaign, a multidisciplinary, statewide effort to prevent child sexual abuse in Massachusetts. The study uses the Institute of Medicine's Framework for Collaborative Community Action on Health to provide a systematic description of the campaign's process of implementation, which includes: (a) developing…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Community Action, Prevention
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Patterson, David A.; Cronley, Courtney; West, Stacia; Lantz, Jennifer – Journal of Social Work Education, 2014
This article examines an ongoing university-community relationship that fuses innovative technology delivery, university-outreach research, and social work practice/research education into a unique, collaborative intervention to reduce homelessness. In doing so, we apply a social justice framework to homelessness, arguing that housing is a right…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Partnerships in Education, Social Justice, Civil Rights
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Teixeira de Melo, Ana; Alarcao, Madalena – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
Family-centered, community-based programs are particularly suited to support families with at-risk children or maltreated children and achieve family preservation or reunification. In these child protection and child welfare cases, assessment is of great importance to inform decision making. But the implementation of services to support the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Child Welfare
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Chen, Huey T.; Turner, Nannette C. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2012
Health promotion and social betterment program interventions are based on either formal theory from academia or stakeholder theory from stakeholders' observations and experiences in working with clients. Over time, formal theory-based interventions have acquired high prestige, while stakeholder theory-based interventions have been held in low…
Descriptors: Intervention, Health Promotion, Program Evaluation, Smoking
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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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