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Institutional transformation to nurture restorative justice practitioners: a cross-sector exploration of a regional community practice in Southern California Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Gwynn Alexander, Schoene Mahmood, Jessica Sunio, Michele Romolini
Restorative justice offers an interdisciplinary framework to create communities that nurture the emotional well-being of all. In recent decades, there has been a proliferation of research into the ...
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Cambodian American social services providers in pursuit of social justice for the well-being of the Cambodian American community members Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Kristina Lovato, Meghan Orr, Suzie S. Weng
Since the Khmer Rouge genocide in the late 1970s and the subsequent mass relocation of Cambodian refugees to the United States, the Cambodian community has struggled to achieve social justice and e...
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Social change strategies of Jewish-Orthodox women activists in Israel Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Edith Blit-Cohen, Ayelet Makaros
This study examines Jewish women’s activism in Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox society in Israel. In order to gain an in-depth perspective on their experience and coping in leading change processes in ...
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Large-scale immigration worksite raids: community disaster, community response Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-05 William Daniel Lopez, Juan Gudino, Tamara Shull, Gladys Godinez, Nicole Louise Novak
Immigration enforcement – or the surveillance, detention, and deportation of noncitizens – detrimentally impacts health, with spillover effects on the families of those targeted. However, less is k...
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Collaboration as organizational empowerment: a network perspective Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Yohei Kato, Samson Lim, Keng Hua Chong
Inter-organizational collaboration is central to Organizational Empowerment theory. It enables organizations to strengthen their capacity and to take collective action to achieve empowerment at mul...
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Assessing the emotional and behavioral impact of community and extra curricular activities, police contact, and collective efficacy among youth Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Michael C. Gearhart, Danielle Maude Littman
A broad body of research suggests that interactions with the police can have a negative impact on emotional and behavioral outcomes among youth. Therefore, developing interventions that simultaneou...
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Impact of the 2016 presidential election and restrictive immigration climate on the work and wellbeing of Bangladeshi immigrant community frontline workers in New York City, U.S.A Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-28 R. Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez, Sharmin Hoque, Stephanie L. Gutkin
Community-based organizations (CBOs) are key players in mitigating the impact of restrictive policy changes on immigrant communities. The ability of these organizations to help diffuse the stress c...
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Collaborations in community-engaged research: paving the way for the future of social work research Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Mary L. Ohmer, Daniel Brisson, Kirk Foster, Cheryl Hyde, Jan Ivery
This special issue focusing on collaborations between community-engaged scholars and community practice partners, provides a nod to our history, a celebration of current innovative research, and a ...
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Developing a systems transformation action research approach: a qualitative cross-case analysis Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Marissa E. P. Kaloga
This paper explores collaborations between community organizations and STARlab (Systems Transformation Action Research Lab), a university-based research unit focusing on inclusive social innovation...
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“Creo que mi meta es ayudar a mi comunidad y ver un cambio”: Latinas/os remaking home through community-engaged mapping Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Mónica Gutiérrez
This paper presents an ethnographic and qualitative exploration of how resident-driven mapping shapes our understanding of place and space in a changing environment. Conducted from 2018 to 2022, th...
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The Philadelphia Negro: community-university research collaboration in the 1890s Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Paul H. Stuart
W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Philadelphia Negro (1899) provides an early example of community-university research collaboration. This “From the Archives” article provides the text of two documents from th...
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Youth participatory action research as an empowerment-based method for community change Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 M. Alex Wagaman, Kathryn Howell, Benjamin Teresa, Rachel Hefner, Hannah Woehrle, Tiffany S. Haynes, Jackie Lawrence
Youth participatory action research (YPAR) centers the experiences of young people as experts in issues impacting their lives. The process of engaging in YPAR has potential to create positive outco...
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Using research to build power: the Pittsburgh Wage study Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Jeffrey Shook, Sara Goodkind, Kess Ballentine, Jihee Woo, Ray Engel, Holley Tillman, Tess Schleitwiler
Social workers seek to address numerous forms of oppression. While our research has focused on extensively documenting problems, solutions often remain out of grasp. Many schools of social work rem...
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Understanding memorandums of Understanding: lessons learned through the negotiation of contracts in research practice partnerships Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Valerie B. Shapiro, Ashley N. Metzger, Tiffany M. Jones, Addison Duane
Collaboration agreements are used in community-engaged scholarship (CES). However, an exploration of collaboration agreements, their components, and the tensions embedded in their usage is missing ...
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From practice-to-research-to-practice: leveraging reciprocal partnerships to advance racial justice in education across contexts and ecological levels Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 James P. Huguley, Cecily D. Davis, Esther M. Stief, Rachelle H. Haynik, Monica A. Henderson, Bianca R. DeBellis, Sommer O. Blair, Anthony P. Williams, Marcia M. Sturdivant, Darryl T. Wiley, Melvin C. Cherry
African American families face significant racial barriers to their educational attainment. Within the experience of schooling specifically, anti-Black oppressive forces manifest in both structural...
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Learning together about disasters through action research partnerships Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Margot Rawsthorne, Nina O’Brien, Madeleine Dignam, Pam Joseph, Cate Massola, Amanda Howard
Walking along side those responding to climate-related threats as co-researchers is surfacing new understanding of the potential for community action in complex and chaotic situations. Action resea...
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University’s absorptive capacity for collaborative research: examining challenges and opportunities for organizational learning to engage in research with community partners Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Moonhawk Kim, Valerie B. Shapiro, Emily J. Ozer, Susan Stone, Brian Villa, Marieka Schotland, Colleen Kohashi
The study and the practice of collaborative research between university researchers and community entities of various types have generally focused on the organizational conditions that facilitate c...
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Notes from the field: moving initiatives from isolation to collective impact to change community-engaged research practices in an academic medical system Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Rebecca Lobb, Kareem King, Laetitia Pierre-Louis, Celia Bora, Arielle Albert, Allyson Richmond, Ryan Schroeder, Jennifer Pamphile, Tracy Battaglia, Linda Sprague Martinez
Medical mistrust among the public was amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic due to racial and social inequities in infection rates and misinformation in the media. In Boston, two initiatives were ...
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Anti-racist research practice partnerships as critical education: dismantling the master’s house with their own tools? Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Richard J Smith, Camille Wilson, Paulina Fraser, Margaret O’Connell Hanna, Jasahn Larsosa
This paper reflects upon “Justice Now Coalition” (JNC), an anti-racist research practice partnership (RPP). The Coalition drew from the Black Emancipatory Action Research (BEAR) Framework as well a...
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For the institution or for the community?: toward an anti-oppressive research praxis in conducting participatory action research Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Rose Ann E. Gutierrez, Melanie Sonsteng-Person, Sam King-Shaw, Marie Trisha Valmocena
Participatory action research has the goal of democratizing knowledge to inform individual and collective action. Photovoice, an arts-based method within the broader PAR landscape, provides a lens ...
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Navigating, subverting, and replacing conventional academic structures and expectations to co-create with participatory action research (PAR) teams: where to for PAR scholarship? Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Danielle Maude Littman, Anna Ortega-Williams, Ramona Beltrán, M. Alex Wagaman, Kimberly Bender, Laura Wernick
In this paper, six social work scholars at varying career stages and institutions used collaborative autoethnography to identify (1) structural constraints and tensions to engage in participatory a...
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Using bottom-up evaluation to build community practice-based evidence and strengthen community-engaged research Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Colleen M. Fisher, Ritti Sangadji, Diana Njoki Mwangi
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play a critical role in mitigating social problems by creating innovative interventions to address unmet community needs, particularly in low- and middle-incom...
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Civic engagement: an antidote to desperation? Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Michelle Mohr Carney, Deborah Adams, Amy Mendenhall, Mary Ohmer
Published in Journal of Community Practice (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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Correction Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-06-21
Published in Journal of Community Practice (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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Investing in community power building to increase civic engagement through voting: lessons from the Building Healthy Communities initiative Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Monique Gill, Benjamin Gronowski, Elliott Moon, Claire Devine, Megan Holtorf, Bill Wright
ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to examine the impact of investments in community organizing made as part of a 10-year comprehensive community initiative focused on community power building in California. Data from multiple sources were used to examine the relationship between investments and one measure of civic engagement, voter turnout. Comparisons were made over time (2010–2019) and between
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Centering marginalized positive youth development constructs: examining perspectives and experiences of racially, ethnically, and gender minoritized practitioners and youth Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Angela Malorni, C.H. Lea III, T.M. Jones, K. McCowan, H.J. Crumé
ABSTRACT Positive youth development (PYD) measurement tools are influenced by the social positionalities, ideologies, and interests of those who create them. Historically, racial, ethnic, and gender-minoritized practitioners and youth program participants have been excluded from the development and testing of PYD measures. In particular, they have been excluded from the conceptual work of defining
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Looking for impact in all the wrong places: Setting realistic expectations and measurable outcomes for small-scale community building initiatives Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Megan Meyer, Karen Hopkins, Jenny Lee, Nicole Mattocks, Jonalyn Denlinger
ABSTRACT This paper examines the process and outcomes from a five-year, community-based participatory research (CBPR) study of a community building initiative to strengthen two neighborhoods in a mid-size, Mid-Atlantic city. In addition to supporting over 50 resident-led projects during the five-year initiative, outcomes included positive changes in resident perceptions about some aspects of neighborhood
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School of social work in partnership with community: finding areas for potential collaboration in service delivery Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Ohiro Oni-Eseleh, Marilyn S. Paul, Leslie Pereira, Amanda Kate Macaluso, Dulande Louis
ABSTRACT In seeking to bridge the micro-macro divide in social work education, we conceptualized, developed, and initiated an innovative university-community partnership-based pilot internship program over a two-year period with four social work student interns placed within the cross-section of local government, social service agencies and community. Our goal was to work within the tripartite context
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How was mutual aid being conceptualized during its proliferation in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic? A critical phenomenological analysis Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Danielle Maude Littman, Karaya Morris, C. Riley Hostetter, Madi Boyett, Kimberly Bender, Brendon Holloway, Annie Zean Dunbar, Sophia Sarantakos
ABSTRACT Mutual aid, a longstanding practice among socially marginalized communities, has proliferated as a widespread form of collective care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and compounding crises. We used critical phenomenological methods to understand how participants (N = 25) who engaged in mutual aid in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic conceptualized mutual aid, and how their social identities
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Co-envisioning the social-ecological transition through youth eco-activists’ narratives: toward a relational approach to ecological justice Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Emmanuelle Larocque
ABSTRACT Drawing on qualitative data collected during the first phase of an intervention-research, this study explores the concept of “social-ecological transition” (SET) from the perspectives of youth eco-activists. As a multi-level approach to intersecting social and ecological crisis, this notion has yet been examined from a social work viewpoint and limited knowledge is available regarding how
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Global crises and hopefulness in community practice? Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Deborah Adams, Mary Ohmer, Amy Mendenhall, Michelle Mohr Carney
Published in Journal of Community Practice (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2023)
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Planning and social work: teaching pre-professional university students across colleges Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Elizabeth Shay, Maureen MacNamara
ABSTRACT Macro (community practice) social work and community planning practitioners do not have an extensive tradition – over time or space – of working together, despite overlapping professional goals and service populations. In an exploratory qualitative study using a convenience sample, we analyzed student responses to questions about the experience of interdisciplinary course activities to assess
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“We bounce back from the worst of the worst”: assets of Flint-area women identified in the Flint Women’s Study Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Maji Hailemariam, Tatiana Bustos, Julia Felton, Kent Key, DeOnica Greer, Bernadel L Jefferson, Janice Muhammud, Dewaun Robinson, Sharon Saddler, Bryan Spencer, Raven Miller, Fallon Richie, Monicia Summers, Jonne McCoy-White, Jennifer Johnson
ABSTRACT Economically disadvantaged communities experience disproportionate health and social challenges relative to more affluent areas. This study describes ways women support and give back to their community in a minority-majority community experiencing social, economic and health challenges. We conducted qualitative interviews with 100 women and human service providers serving women in Flint, Genesee
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Guaranteed income: experiences of African American mothers in the Magnolia Mother’s Trust Project Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Eyitayo Onifade, Kwanele Shishane, Fese Elonge, Lakeithia Glover
ABSTRACT The Magnolia Mother’s Trust Project seeks to spotlight the impact of consumer sovereignty inherent in cash transfers to low-income single mothers. The project offered a guaranteed income benefit of $12,000 for one year to 110 Black single mothers in Jackson, Mississippi. Participants were within 200% of the poverty threshold. The aim of this investigation is to describe the project and report
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A community-based case study of the co-construction of an online intervention with gay and bisexual men who use substances Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Valérie Aubut, Mathieu Goyette, Jorge Flores-Aranda, Marianne Saint-Jacques, Frédérick Pronovost, Karine Bertrand
ABSTRACT Collaboration between academic researchers and community members is a cornerstone of community-based research. The success of a project’s results depends on this collaboration. Currently collaborative practices are mostly documented from the researchers’ perspective. Based on a case study of the development of the MyBuzz.ca online intervention for gay and bisexual men who use substances, this
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The challenges of “Moving at the Speed of Trust”: how women navigate new public management dynamics in power-based community organizations Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Mary L. Dungy, Amy Krings
ABSTRACT The practice of professional community organizing aims to create a more equitable, inclusive society. However, power-based community organizing in the Alinsky tradition has historically been criticized for being unwelcoming to women, especially those who are caregivers at home. To better understand the paradox of working for social justice within an occupational context where one is not fully
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Community engagement: evolution, challenges and opportunities for change Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Mary L. Ohmer, Amy N. Mendenhall, Michele Mohr Carney, Deborah Adams
Published in Journal of Community Practice (Vol. 30, No. 4, 2022)
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Financial education as political education: a framework for targeting systems as sites of change Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Terri Friedline, Anna K. Wood, So’Phelia Morrow
ABSTRACT The ability of individual-level interventions to improve people’s financial conditions is compromised when the root causes of precarity develop at systems levels. While it can be a challenge to intervene at the systems-level, we contend that one approach is for social work and allied professions to treat financial education as political education. Building on the activist organizing approaches
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Cultivating community change to promote food access and healthy eating through participatory action research with youth Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Ana Altares, Savannah Hobbs, Dana Sobel, Tracy Nelson, Magdalena Serpa, Laura L. Bellows
ABSTRACT Professionals such as social workers, public health officials, cultural networkers, researchers, and community leaders, who are designing and implementing programs and policies, can look to youth to gain a unique perspective on promoting community health. Across the United States, many communities experience inadequate access to nutritious foods that exacerbate poor health outcomes for marginalized
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Jesse Frederick Steiner assesses community organization in 1922 Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Paul H. Stuart
ABSTRACT This “From the Archives” article provides the text of Jesse Frederick Steiner’s 1922 article on community organization in 1922. The article was published in the November, 1922, issue of the Journal of Social Forces.
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How community capacity building in urban agriculture can improve food access in predominantly Black communities Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Saria Lofton, Marjorie Kersten, Nanyombi Lubimbi, Angela Odoms-Young
ABSTRACT Black Americans face disparate health burdens of diet-related chronic diseases. Black Americans who live in communities with inadequate access to healthy foods are at an even greater risk for disparate health outcomes. Urban agriculture in communities with inadequate access to healthy food can complement the existing traditional food system and can make a difference in the accessibility of
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“We have to learn how to balance all of that”: Community health needs of a state-recognized Gulf Coast Indigenous tribe Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Jessica L. Liddell, Tess Carlson, Haley H. Beech
ABSTRACT The community and health programmatic needs of state-recognized tribes vary in comparison to tribes who are federally recognized. Federal recognition provides tribes with access to federal programs through Indian Health Services (IHS) and ensures a certain level of sovereignty. Little research explores the gaps in community programs experienced by state-recognized tribes as a result of their
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Community experiences and aspirations of young Syrian newcomers in a neighborhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Kyohee Kim
ABSTRACT In the Netherlands, several housing projects have housed local young adults and refugees together, attracting media and academic attention. Along with praise for complementing the integration process of newcomers, criticism has also been leveled that such projects are often located far from residential areas. Meanwhile, the SET project located in a residential area in Amsterdam attempt to
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A convergence of crises: how do we move community practice forward? Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Amy N. Mendenhall, Deborah Adams, Mary L. Ohmer, Michelle Mohr Carney
Published in Journal of Community Practice (Vol. 30, No. 3, 2022)
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Youth civic and community engagement under Singapore’s COVID-19 lockdown: motivations, online mobilization, action, and future directions Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Jin Yao Kwan
ABSTRACT Disasters like COVID-19 adversely affect young adults but also present opportunities for civic and community engagement. Cognizant of and personally experiencing the pandemic’s disproportionate socio-economic fallout on disadvantaged communities, civically engaged young adults have mobilized and questioned government actors and structures which perpetuated pre-pandemic vulnerabilities. However
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Community events as part of age-friendly community practice Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Natalie Elaine Pope, Emily Greenfield
ABSTRACT As the number of localities committing to age-friendly progress increases worldwide, there is growing interest in the processes and contexts that lead to systemic and long-term age-friendly community (AFC) impact. Our study aimed to advance research in this area by exploring community events as a mechanism through which practitioners work toward AFC goals. We used semi-structured interview
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Third spaces and opioid use within Black communities of Dane County: a qualitative secondary data analysis Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Troy Malcolm Williams, Carolee Dodge Francis
ABSTRACT This study utilizes data initially collected by evaluators at Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services to create a secondary data analysis to investigate the opioid use and misuse among Black residents of Dane County. Sociologist Eric Klinenberg defines the term social infrastructure as the physical places and organizations that shape the way people interact. This study analyzes conversations
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Crisis and opportunity: the impacts of COVID-19 on water advocacy in Ontario, Canada Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-07-24 Robert Case, Allison Eady
ABSTRACT This article provides results from interviews and a focus group conducted at two different points in time in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, which explored impacts of the pandemic and adaptation among water advocacy organizations in southern Ontario, Canada. Our findings show that despite the destabilizing and sometimes devastating impact of COVID-19 on grassroots organizations and
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Community-engaged technology development for bridging service users and service providers: lessons from the field Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Wonhyung Lee, Kelly Gross, Charalampos Chelmis, Daphney-Stavroula Zois
ABSTRACT This article shares the experiences and lessons learned from a community project that aims to develop a technology-based solution to improve communications between service users and service providers. Through this multi-year project in the Capital District of New York State, a team of social workers and engineers created a mobile app prototype based on the feedback from the community. This
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Mutual aid using digital technology: a case study of virtual community organizing during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-07-18 K. R. Wilson, O. M. Roskill, J. Mahr
ABSTRACT This case study explored the evolution of a mutual aid network founded through virtual mediums and using digital technologies in response to the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Boston, MA area. We collected qualitative interviews with the network’s founders and focus groups with active members. We assessed findings through a framework provided by Nelson, Ochocka, Griffin
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The lens of community Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Michelle Mohr Carney, Deborah Adams, Amy Mendenhall, Mary Ohmer
(2022). The lens of community. Journal of Community Practice: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 105-108.
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Youth participation in policy-making processes in the United Kingdom: a scoping review of the literature Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-05-17 T Macauley, H.B. Rolker, M Scherer, J Brock, N Savona, A Helleve, C Knai
ABSTRACT Young people’s voices remain underrepresented in health policy processes. This scoping review focuses on the United Kingdom (UK) and investigates how and to what degree young people have participated in policy-making processes. We adapt an established framework categorizing how young people are involved in policy-related processes, ranging from advisory roles to communicating findings. We
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Doing Place: A context specific framework for sustaining commitments in Appalachian Kentucky Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Jeanelle S. Sears, Lesley Harris, Thomas Lawson
ABSTRACT In the context of high outmigration, this study drew on the experiences of college educated young adults (N = 30) who made conscious commitments to live in Appalachian Kentucky and work on social, economic, and environmental changes in the region. Using Constructivist Grounded Theory methods, we present doing place as a context specific framework that highlights three dynamic and multi-directional
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Transgender and nonbinary activism among social work students in the US: The role of ally behavior and a critical orientation to social justice Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Brendon T. Holloway, Brittanie Atteberry-Ash, Leonardo Kattari, Erin Harrop, N. Eugene Walls
ABSTRACT Social workers are expected to serve and advocate for marginalized communities, including but not limited to transgender and nonbinary communities (TNB). However, the extent to which social workers meet this expectation is unknown. Using data from a 2019–2020 survey of students who were enrolled in U.S. social work programs (N = 725), this study examined the predictors for engaging in TNB
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Service-learning, rights to the city, and justice in community practitioner preparation Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Garret J. Zastoupil, Carolina S. Sarmiento
ABSTRACT Critical service-learning (CSL) is an important pedagogy for the preparation of community practitioners. In this article, two service-learning practitioners offer “Rights to the City” (RTTC) as a framework to guide what “social change” means in CSL and for undergraduate students preparing to work in community settings. The article outlines three central tenets of RTTC: the democratically reimagined
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Reframing sense of community with photovoice: perspectives from residents of a permanent supportive housing program who have experienced chronic homelessness Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Peter Miterko, Sean Bruna
ABSTRACT This article presents photovoice research conducted with residents of a project-based permanent supportive housing program in a small metropolitan community in the United States. Utilizing McMillian and Chavis’s Sense of Community as a theoretical framework, we implemented photovoice to explore how former chronically homeless residents experienced their new housing community. Findings shed
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The repercussions of large-scale immigration worksite raids on immigrant women: results from six rural communities Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Katherine M. Collins, Nicole L. Novak, Gladys E. Godinez, Tamera L. Shull, William D. Lopez
ABSTRACT We conducted a community-based study to analyze outcomes of and community responses to six large-scale immigration worksite raids by conducting semi-structured interviews with individuals who responded to these raids. Participants (n = 77) represented four primary sectors: faith, advocacy, education, and law. Analyses show that large-scale immigration worksite raids frequently prompt family
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Resident service coordinators as an underutilized resource in the design and development of affordable housing Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Dustin C. Read, Jeffrey Robert, Greg Galford
ABSTRACT Drawing on 20 semi-structured interviews with industry professionals, this study considers whether barriers to collaboration prevent affordable housing developers in the U.S. from collaborating with resident service coordinators when making development decisions. Results suggest executives working in both fields perceive barriers to collaboration to exist, many of which stem from competing
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Gratitude and introductions from the new Journal of Community Practice Editor Team Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Deborah Adams, Amy Mendenhall, Mary L. Ohmer, Michelle Mohr Carney
(2022). Gratitude and introductions from the new Journal of Community Practice Editor Team. Journal of Community Practice: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
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Community-responsive scholar-activist research: conceptualizing capacity building and sustainability in a Northern California community-university partnership Journal of Community Practice Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Rosa D. Manzo, Jacklyn Kelty, Alfonso Aranda
ABSTRACT We critically examine the ongoing development of a collaborative, responsive, activist research process between academics and farmworkers. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with community-based researchers and scholar-activists, we assess our team’s understanding of community capacity building and research sustainability as the conceptual and operational definitions of these concepts lack academic