Community Initiatives

Author : Jonathan F. Zaff,Elizabeth Pufall Jones,Alice E. Donlan,Sara Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317308379

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Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Positive Youth Development by Jonathan F. Zaff,Elizabeth Pufall Jones,Alice E. Donlan,Sara Anderson Pdf

While Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs) provide promising avenues to support the positive development of all young people, research findings assessing the relation between CCIs and community-level child and youth outcomes have been mixed. Although there are exceptions, few evaluations on the impact of CCIs on positive youth development have been conducted. In this edited collection, the authors draw on the field of developmental science to provide a basis for why CCIs are a powerful tool for providing all young people with opportunities to thrive. The collection begins with a brief history of CCIs and their impacts to illustrate why a developmental framework is needed, followed by a discussion of the editors’ proposed framework. Each chapter that follows offers some of the most rigorous research and extant knowledge of CCIs. In the final chapter, the editors provide recommendations for future research that can systematically explore the impact of CCIs, better indicating their effectiveness and offering proven strategies that can be implemented in varying contexts. Altogether, this collection offers researchers and practitioners in the field a means by which to better incorporate theory into the vision and practices of CCIs and, as such, the tools to better measure the outcomes of the CCIs.

Author : G. Surya Rao
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8171568955

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Urban Development with Community Initiatives by G. Surya Rao Pdf

This Book Is A Compendium Of Experiences Over The Last 40 Years In The Field Of Community Development And Working With People.People And Communities Are The Only References In This Book. So The Readers Do Not Have To Find A Separate Bibliography.Some Of The Lessons That Emanate From This Book Lay Emphasis On :Not To Ignore The Ability And Ingenuity Of The Poor. Facilitate Him/Her To Think And Act.If People Have The Will They Can Find A Way Out For A Meaningful Development.Human Resource Is Inexhaustible In Our Society For Individual S And Society S Benefit. Proper Way Must Be Found To Tap It In The Right Direction.By Doing Community Development Work, Not Only Other Are Benefitted But We Are Also Benefitted Simultaneously.Educate, Organise And Empower These Are The Powerful Keys For Participatory Development. By Glancing The Book, The Readers Will Identify Them In The Right Perspective.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428967380

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Confronting Drugs: Community Initiatives by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jacqueline M. Edwards
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781435702523

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Introduction to Faith-Based and Community Initiatives by Jacqueline M. Edwards Pdf

This course of reading will provide you with an overview of the prescription of public and nonprofit partnerships focusing on the White House's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives program. It lays a solid foundation for understanding the benefits of collaboration and power sharing with the Federal government.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PURD:32754077965865

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Centers for Faith-based and Community Initiatives by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources Pdf

Author : Jurian Edelenbos,Astrid Molenveld,Ingmar van Meerkerk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000334654

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Civic Engagement, Community-Based Initiatives and Governance Capacity by Jurian Edelenbos,Astrid Molenveld,Ingmar van Meerkerk Pdf

This book intends to theoretically conceptualize and empirically investigate upcoming and established practices of community-based initiatives in various countries in which both citizens and governments join efforts and capacities to solve wicked issues. It aims to include and compare cases from various countries, departing from the notion that community-based initiatives take place in an institutional context of governmental structures, rules, procedures, regulations, and routines. This leads to government involvement in these initiatives and sharing the public space. Furthermore, the editors take into account what kind of leadership roles, knowledge, and resources are present and how they evolve in this collaborative or coordinative effort, which in turn can enhance the capacities of community-based initiatives. This book joins excellent researchers from renowned universities all over the world, aiming for a balance between upcoming scholars and renowned scholars in the field of community-based initiatives and governance capacity. Contributors were carefully selected on the basis of their experience in the field of community-based initiatives, citizens’ engagement and governance capacity approaches. Aimed at researchers and academics, this volume will be of interest to those in the fields of business, economics, public administration, political science, social enterprise, sociology and third sector studies.

Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1843690802

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Funding Community Level Initiatives - 7008iied by International Institute for Environment & Development Pdf

Author : Alison Pedlar,Susan Arai,Felice Yuen,Darla Fortune
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351204453

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Community Re-Entry by Alison Pedlar,Susan Arai,Felice Yuen,Darla Fortune Pdf

In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of poverty, trauma, and abuse. Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison provides a rare opportunity to hear directly from women who have spent time in a Canadian federal penitentiary. Based on more than a decade of engagement with women in prison, the authors gathered rich and personal information on women’s lived experiences during incarceration and what they anticipated and hoped for on release. This book relates their narratives and the authors’ critical analysis of their experiences both within and outside prison. By bridging relational and other critical theories (critical feminist, critical race, critical disability, and post-structural understandings) with lived experience, this volume sheds light on the challenges incarcerated women face as they seek to return to the community as valued and contributing citizens. Community Re-Entry’s unique perspective on women’s post-imprisonment policy will appeal to academics, community-based advocates and activists, and undergraduate and postgraduate students studying criminology and social science courses on gender and crime, correctional policy, and qualitative research methods.

Author : Kamrul Hossain,Lena Maria Nilsson,Thora Martina Herrmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000095272

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Food Security in the High North by Kamrul Hossain,Lena Maria Nilsson,Thora Martina Herrmann Pdf

This book explores the challenges facing food security, sustainability, sovereignty, and supply chains in the Arctic, with a specific focus on Indigenous Peoples. Offering multidisciplinary insights and with a particular focus on populations in the European High North region, the book highlights the importance of accessible and sustainable traditional foods for the dietary needs of local and Indigenous Peoples. It focuses on foods and natural products that are unique to this region and considers how they play a significant role towards food security and sovereignty. The book captures the tremendous complexity facing populations here as they strive to maintain sustainable food systems – both subsistent and commercial – and regain sovereignty over traditional food production policies. A range of issues are explored including food contamination risks, due to increasing human activities in the region, such as mining, to changing livelihoods and gender roles in the maintenance of traditional food security and sovereignty. The book also considers processing methods that combine indigenous and traditional knowledge to convert the traditional foods, that are harvested and hunted, into local foods. This book offers a broader understanding of food security and sovereignty and will be of interest to academics, scholars and policy makers working in food studies; geography and environmental studies; agricultural studies; sociology; anthropology; political science; health studies and biology.

Author : Aspen Institute. Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Children and Families
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Community development
ISBN : CORNELL:31924089544211

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New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives: Theory, measurement, and analysis by Aspen Institute. Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Children and Families Pdf

Sections include: "A theory of change approach to evaluation", "Reflections from evaluation practitioners" and "Issues in measurement and analysis".

Author : John McKnight,Peter Block
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781605096278

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The Abundant Community by John McKnight,Peter Block Pdf

" We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block show that we have the capacity to find real and sustainable satisfaction right in our neighborhood and community. This book reports on voluntary, self-organizing structures that focus on gifts and value hospitality, the welcoming of strangers. It shows how to reweave our social fabric, especially in our neighborhoods. In this way we collectively have enough to create a future that works for all. "

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309452960

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Communities in Action by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States Pdf

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author : Peter R. Schmidt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351980913

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Community-based Heritage in Africa by Peter R. Schmidt Pdf

This volume provides a powerful alternative to the Western paradigms that have governed archaeological inquiry and heritage studies in Africa. Community-based Heritage Research in Africa boldly shifts focus away from top-down community engagements, usually instigated by elite academic and heritage institutions, to examine locally initiated projects. Schmidt explores how and why local research initiatives, which are often motivated by rapid culture change caused by globalization, arose among the Haya people of western Tanzania. In particular, the trauma of HIV/AIDS resulted in the loss of elders who had performed oral traditions and rituals at sacred places, the two most recognized forms of heritage among the Haya as well as distinct alternatives to the authorized heritage discourse favored around the globe. Examining three local initiatives, Schmidt draws on his experience as an anthropologist invited to collaborate and co-produce with the Haya to provide a poignant rendering of the successes, conflicts, and failures that punctuated their participatory community research efforts. This frank appraisal privileges local voices and focuses attention on the unique and important contributions that such projects can make to the preservation of regional history. Through this blend of personalized narrative and analytical examination, the book provides fresh insights into African archaeology and heritage studies.

Author : European Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032286539

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Guide to the Community Initiatives, 1994-99 by European Commission Pdf

Author : David Johnston,Tom Jenkins
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780735270602

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Innovation Nation by David Johnston,Tom Jenkins Pdf

This young readers edition of Ingenious focuses on 50 kid-friendly Canadian innovations that changed the world, from canoes to whoopie cushions, chocolate bars to Pablum. Co-written by Canada's Governor General and accompanied by contemporary illustrations, this adaptation offers young Canadians a way to celebrate our history and world contributions on Canada's 150th birthday. Successful innovation is always inspired by at least one of three forces -- insight, necessity and simple luck. Innovation Nation moves through history to explore what circumstances, incidents, coincidences and collaborations motivated each great Canadian idea, and what twist of fate then brought that idea into public acceptance. From the marvels of aboriginal inventions such as the canoe, igloo and lifejacket to the latest pioneering advances in medicine, education, science, engineering and the arts, Canadians have improvised and worked together to make the world a better place. With striking, vibrant illustrations throughout, Innovation Nation is a gorgeous companion to the adult edition that will surprise, enlighten and entertain young readers, and will be a valuable resource for teachers and librarians.