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Nonprofit Organizations and Innovation: A Model of Neighborhood-Based Collaboration to Prevent Child Maltreatment.
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Mulroy, Elizabeth A.; Shay, Sharon – Social Work, 1997
Outlines a theoretical and conceptual framework for neighborhood-based collaboration by nonprofit organizations. Analyzes the main concepts of innovation in the design and implementation of a collaboration to prevent child maltreatment in an undervalued neighborhood and draws implications for social policy, social work practice, and social work…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Models
Building a Neighborhood Network: Interorganizational Collaboration to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect.
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Mulroy, Elizabeth A. – Social Work, 1997
Reports on an interorganizational collaboration in which a community-based service network of family support programs to help prevent child abuse and neglect was implemented. Presents a theoretical framework for understanding community-based networks and interorganizational collaboration and describes and analyzes how collaboration was used to…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Neglect, Community Programs
Preventing and Reducing Alcohol and Other Drug Use among High-Risk Youths by Increasing Family Resilience.
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Johnson, Knowlton; Bryant, Denise D.; Collins, David A.; Noe, Tim D.; Strader, Ted N.; Berbaum, Michael – Social Work, 1998
The effects of a community-based program designed to delay onset and reduce frequency of alcohol and drug use among high-risk youth are evaluated. Implemented in multiple church communities, program components include parent and youth training, early intervention services, and follow-up case management services. Implications for social work are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Drinking, Drug Use