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Hong, Ijin; Roh, Kyung-hoo – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Objective: This study aims to evaluate the impact of a community development program meant to improve living standards of poor rural families through income generating activities (IGAs) based on conditional cash transfers (CCTs) in Doti, Nepal. Method: We use cross-sectional field data from a sample of 392 families representative of the village…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Development, Community Programs, Foreign Countries
Laforest, Sophie; Lorthios-Guilledroit, Agathe; Nour, Kareen; Parisien, Manon; Fournier, Michel; Ellemberg, Dave; Guay, Danielle; Desgagnés-Cyr, Charles-Émile; Bier, Nathalie – Health Education Research, 2017
This study examined the effects on attitudes and lifestyle behavior of "Jog your Mind," a multi-factorial community-based program promoting cognitive vitality among seniors with no known cognitive impairment. A quasi-experimental study was conducted. Twenty-three community organizations were assigned either to the experimental group…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Life Style, Community Programs, Quasiexperimental Design
Seroczynski, A. D.; Evans, William N.; Jobst, Amy D.; Horvath, Luke; Carozza, Giuliana – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016
We present results of an evaluation of Reading for Life (RFL), a diversion program for nonviolent juvenile offenders in a medium-sized Midwestern county. The unique program uses philosophical virtue theory, works of literature, and small mentoring groups to foster moral development in juvenile offenders. Participants were randomly assigned to RFL…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, Mentors, Moral Development
Bogenschutz, Matthew; Nord, Derek; Hewitt, Amy – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2015
Turnover among direct support professionals (DSPs) in community support settings for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) has been regarded as a challenge since tracking of this workforce began in the 1980s. This study utilized a group randomized controlled design to test the effects of a competency-based training…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Caregivers, Caregiver Attitudes, Burnout
Stadnick, Nicole A.; Stahmer, Aubyn; Brookman-Frazee, Lauren – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
This is a pilot study of the effectiveness of Project ImPACT, a parent-mediated intervention for ASD delivered in a community program. The primary aim was to compare child and parent outcomes between the intervention group and a community comparison for 30 young children with ASD at baseline and 12 weeks. The secondary aim was to identify parent…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Intervention, Community Programs, Experimental Groups
Prieto-Flores, Òscar; Feu, Jordi; Casademont, Xavier – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2016
In the last decades, many higher education institutions have developed practices of internationalization of curricula aiming at developing intercultural competences among the non-mobile majority of students. Some of them have developed service-learning activities focusing on working with underserved communities from different cultures. This…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Racial Bias, Mentors, Control Groups
Herman, Daniel B. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2014
Professional social workers and other mental health providers have for many years been involved in delivering treatment and support services focused on the needs of adults with severe mental illnesses living in the community. While some models have evolved largely through practice experience, others have developed through research paradigms in…
Descriptors: Social Work, Caseworkers, Mental Disorders, Mental Health Programs
Barnidge, E. K.; Baker, E. A.; Schootman, M.; Motton, F.; Sawicki, M.; Rose, F. – Health Education Research, 2015
African Americans have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease partly due to low fruit and vegetable consumption. This article reports the results of an intervention to provide nutrition education and access to fruits and vegetables through community gardens to change dietary behaviors among African Americans in rural Missouri. Cross-sectional…
Descriptors: African Americans, At Risk Persons, Heart Disorders, Eating Habits
Glisson, Charles; Hemmelgarn, Anthony; Green, Philip; Williams, Nathaniel J. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2013
Objectives: The primary objective of the study was to assess whether the Availability, Responsiveness and Continuity (ARC) organizational intervention improved youth outcomes in community based mental health programs. The second objective was to assess whether programs with more improved organizational social contexts following the 18-month ARC…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mental Health, Social Environment, Caregivers
Rui, Ning – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
With funding through grants and donations, an international development organization has provided developmental services to a woreda in southern Ethiopia since the early 1980s. This study is intended to assess the outcome and impact of the program and address the following questions: (1) Did direct beneficiaries of the CDTP program exhibit better…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Integrated Activities, Community Programs
Self-Brown, Shannon; Valente, Jessica R.; Wild, Robert C.; Whitaker, Daniel J.; Galanter, Rachel; Dorsey, Shannon; Stanley, Jenelle – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2012
Benchmarking is a program evaluation approach that can be used to study whether the outcomes of parents/children who participate in an evidence-based program in the community approximate the outcomes found in randomized trials. This paper presents a case illustration using benchmarking methodology to examine a community implementation of…
Descriptors: Therapy, Parent Child Relationship, Child Behavior, Interaction
Champion, David R.; Harvey, Patrick J.; Schanz, Youngyol Yim – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2011
In this study the authors report on an investigation comparing the recidivism and other variables of two similar offender populations in a western Pennsylvania county. The two groups were comparable in offense type, size (N = 63 for each) and other variables such as sex, race and age range. One group represented offenders who received a sentence…
Descriptors: Law Enforcement, Recidivism, Counties, Comparative Analysis
Assessing the Impact of a Wildlife Education Program on Japanese Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions
Sakurai, Ryo; Jacobson, Susan K.; Matsuda, Naoko; Maruyama, Tetsuya – Environmental Education Research, 2015
Human-wildlife conflicts are common in agricultural communities and mountainous villages in Japan. Tochigi prefecture has one of the highest amounts of agricultural damage caused by wildlife in the country. To reduce conflicts, the Nature Preservation Division of Tochigi Prefecture launched a wildlife damage prevention program. We evaluated the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attitude Measures, Intention, Behavior
McQuillin, Samuel D.; Lyons, Michael D. – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2016
This study evaluated the efficacy of an intentionally brief school-based mentoring program. This academic goal-focused mentoring program was developed through a series of iterative randomized controlled trials, and is informed by research in social cognitive theory, cognitive dissonance theory, motivational interviewing, and research in academic…
Descriptors: Mentors, Middle School Students, Randomized Controlled Trials, Self Efficacy
Bertera, Elizabeth M. – Educational Gerontology, 2014
This study combined the African American tradition of oral storytelling with the Hispanic medium of "Fotonovelas." A staggered pretest posttest control group design was used to evaluate four Storytelling Slide Shows on health that featured community members. A total of 212 participants were recruited for the intervention and 217 for the…
Descriptors: Story Telling, African American Culture, Hispanic Americans, Pretests Posttests
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