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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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Fagan, Abigail A.; Hanson, Koren; Hawkins, J. David; Arthur, Michael W. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2009
Translational research (Pentz, Jasuja, Rohrbach, Sussman, & Bardo, 2006; Woolf, 2008) is concerned with moving advances in prevention science into everyday practice in communities, yet there are few models for ensuring this transfer of knowledge. Communities That Care (CTC) provides a planned, structured, and data-driven system that trains…
Descriptors: Prevention, Scientific Research, Intervention, Youth Programs
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Camino, Linda – Journal of Community Psychology, 2005
Youth-adult partnerships (Y-APs) are an innovation being used increasingly as a key strategy for promoting youth development, as well as for building strong programs and communities. This article discusses three pitfalls that can undermine their effectiveness: (1) the assumption that youth should do everything of importance; (2) the belief that…
Descriptors: Adults, Youth, Evaluation, Innovation
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Chilenski, Sarah M.; Greenberg, Mark T.; Feinberg, Mark E. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
Both the organizational studies literature and the community psychology literature discuss the importance of readiness when implementing change. Although each area emphasizes different characteristics, several common themes are present within the literature. The current study integrates and applies organizational and community psychology…
Descriptors: Readiness, Community Change, Program Implementation, Change Strategies