scholarly journals Assessing the Value of Inductive and Deductive Outcome Measures in Community-Based Programs: Lessons from the City Kidz Evaluation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rich Janzen ◽  
Nghia Nguyen ◽  
Alethea Stobbe ◽  
Liliana Araujo
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
The City

Atlanta Streets Alive: A Movement Building a Culture of Health in an Urban Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Torres ◽  
John Steward ◽  
Sheryl Strasser ◽  
Rodney Lyn ◽  
Rebecca Serna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Neighborhood Social Capital ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Perceptions Of Safety ◽  
Movement Building ◽  
Motorized Vehicles ◽  
The City

Background:Open Streets are community-based programs that promote the use of public space for physical activity (PA), recreation and socialization by closing streets temporarily to motorized vehicles, allowing access to pedestrians. The city of Atlanta hosted its first Open Streets event, Atlanta Streets Alive (ASA), in May 2010. An evaluation of the first 5 ASA events from May 2010 to May 2012 was conducted. The purpose was to learn about the characteristics of ASA participants, the influence of the event on their PA, and perceptions of safety and neighborhood social capital.Methods:ASA’s evaluation had 2 components: participant counts and a participant survey. Characteristics of participation were compared among the 3 different events in which surveys were conducted using the Pearson χ2 test and F test as appropriate.Results:The estimated participation at ASA increased from nearly 3,500 (ASA 1 to 4) to 12,520 (ASA 5). The number of events increased to 3 per year for a total of 10 events until 2014. Overall, 19.4% of participants met the weekly PA recommendation during 1 event.Conclusions:The expanding diversity of routes, participants, and sponsorships highlights the potential promise such programming offers in terms of establishing an urban culture of health.

Applying an Evaluability Assessment Tool to Community-Based Programs in Pittsburgh

1998 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEX PIQUERO
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Juvenile Court ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Minority Overrepresentation ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Crime And Delinquency ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Process Evaluations

In the city of Pittsburgh, in 1994, of the approximately 53% of the 2,916 delinquency cases disposed by the juvenile court, about 70% involved African American Youth. This disproportionality is magnified by the time youths reach the correctional system, and recent efforts to address the problem have stressed the need to intervene before offenders initially enter the system. The purpose of this article is threefold. First, it attempts to provide some insight into three community-based prevention programs that were funded by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to address the problem of minority overrepresentation. Second, it discusses the obstacles associated with evaluating the programs and provides recommendations for overcoming them. Finally, it describes a tool that was used in early process evaluations for the three programs using experiences in those programs as case studies illustrating the hazards of conducting outcome studies in any setting in the absence of preliminary evaluability assessments and process evaluations.

Perencanaan Sistem Pengurangan Sampah Permukiman Bantaran Sungai Cidurian Kota Bandung

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raka Maulana ◽  
Yulianti Pratama ◽  
Lina Apriyanti
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
River Flow ◽  
Waste Reduction ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Inorganic Waste ◽  
Waste Bank ◽  
The City

<p>Some areas in the city of Bandung is an area that dilitasi by the flow of the river, to prevent the introduction of garbage into the river basin is necessary to note the waste management systems in residential areas along the river. Cidurian river has a length of 24.86 Km along the river flow. Consists of the city of Bandung and Bandung regency. Administrative regions Cidurian River past eight (8) districts, from the region in the District Kiaracondong precisely Village Babakan Babakan Sari and Surabaya populous and the most densely populated. Thus, there should be community-based waste management in the form of a reduction in resources to prevent potential entry of waste into the river basin. Planning waste reduction will be divided into two, namely the reduction of inorganic waste with waste bank then the reduction of organic waste with absorption holes biopori, and bio reactor mini determination of the reduction is determined by the results of the analysis of the sampling covers the composition and garbage, then the result of the measurement characteristics test and analysis results questionnaire.</p>

scholarly journals Does the Arc of Science Bend Towards Impact? Four Decades of Empirical Research Published in JADD Since the DSM-III

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Doehring
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Intervention Research ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Impact ◽  
Population Impact ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Over 40 Years ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThe present study explored the shift from understanding to intervention to population impact in the empirical research published in this journal at five points of time over 40 years since the release of DSM-III. Two-thirds of the more than 600 original studies identified involved basic research, a pattern that is consistent with previous analyses of research funding allocations and that did not change over time. One of every eight studies involved intervention research, which occurred in community-based programs only about one-quarter of the time. These gaps in intervention research and community impact did not improve over time. The findings underscore the need to broaden the training and experience of researchers, and to re-consider priorities for research funding and publication.

Analysis of GLBTQ Youth Community-Based Programs in the United States

2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (9) ◽  
pp. 1289-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth D. Allen ◽  
Phillip L. Hammack ◽  
Heather L. Himes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Youth Community ◽  
Glbtq Youth

Moving the Needle: Cultivating Systemic Change in Juvenile Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
Kellie Rhodes ◽  
Aisland Rhodes ◽  
Wayne Bear ◽  
Larry Brendtro
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Direct Care ◽  
Clinical Services ◽  
Juvenile Courts ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Partnership

Approximately 1.7 million delinquency cases are disposed in juvenile courts annually (Puzzanchera, Adams, & Sickmund, 2011). Of these youth, tens of thousands experience confinement in the US (Sawyer, 2019), while hundreds of thousands experience probation or are sentenced to community based programs (Harp, Muhlhausen, & Hockenberry, 2019). These youth are placed in the care of programs overseen by directors and clinicians. A survey of facility directors and clinicians from member agencies of the National Partnership for Juvenile Services (NPJS) Behavioral Health Clinical Services (BHCS) committee identified three primary concerns practitioners face in caring for these youth; 1) low resources to recruit and retain quality staff, 2) training that is often not a match for, and does not equip staff to effectively manage the complex needs of acute youth, and 3) the perspective of direct care as an unskilled entry-level position with limited impact on youth’s rehabilitation. This article seeks to address these issues and seeks to highlight potential best practices to re-solve for those obstacles within juvenile services.

Do Housing Vacancies Induce More Crime? A Spatiotemporal Regression Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (11) ◽  
pp. 1579-1605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojin Chen ◽  
Patrick Rafail
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Property Crime ◽  
Drug Offense ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Vacancy ◽  
Neighborhood Level

This study aims to investigate the longitudinal associations between patterns of housing vacancies, neighborhood social disorder, and crime in the city of New Orleans. Using large-scale administrative and contextual data collected from the year 2012 to 2018, our spatiotemporal regression analysis provides empirical evidence for the salient effects of housing vacancy on neighborhood level of property crime and violence. In addition, the spillover effect of housing vacancy is observed on the neighborhood level of drug offense, property crime, and violence. These results potentially identify vacant properties as a modifiable target for intervention to reduce urban crime and suggest that community-based programs aiming to enhance informal social control and collective efficacy may be as important as broken window policing programs.

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