Faith-Based Interventions for At-Risk Latino Youths: A Study of Outcomes

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen V. Monsma ◽  
Corwin E. Smidt
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
The Public ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
The Government

AbstractThis is a study of the comparative outcome success experienced by 2748 participants in government-funded faith-based and community-based intervention programs for at-risk and adjudicated Latino youths run by 28 providers in five western cities. The Latino Coalition, an intermediary faith-based organization, subcontracted with 28 sub-grantees that provided the services from 2005–2008. The study found similar outcomes were experienced by youths in the faith-based versus the community-based programs, but it did find significantly different outcomes by the comprehensive versus non-comprehensive nature of the programs. The study places its findings in the context of faith-based and community initiatives and draws conclusions concerning the public policy implications of the government partnering with faith-based and community-based organizations to provide public services to needy, and especially minority, populations.

scholarly journals Kendala Organisasi Berbasis Komunitas dalam Program Pencegahan dan Penanggulangan HIV/AIDS: Studi Kasus pada Dua LSM Peduli AIDS di Jakarta

2019 ◽  
pp. 163-174
Author(s):  
Ranti Suciati ◽  
Mujiati Mujiati ◽  
Novianti Novianti
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Government ◽  
Hiv Aids

Abstrak Semakin meningkatnya jumlah kasus HIV/AIDS di Indonesia, berdampak tidak hanya pada masalah kesehatan, memacu pemerintah untuk melibatkan masyarakat sipil dalam Organisasi Berbasis Komunitas (OBK) untuk ikut berperan dalam upaya pencegahan dan penanggulangan HIV/AIDS. Pentingnya identifikasi kendala atau hambatan yang dihadapi oleh OBK memunculkan strategi atau alternatif solusi untuk mengatasi kendala, serta memberikan gambaran model intervensi yang lebih sinkron antara pemerintah dan masyarakat. Desain penelitian adalah kualitatif dengan melakukan studi kasus di dua LSM Peduli AIDS di Jakarta. Informan dipilih secara purposive sampling yaitu pengurus, anggota/petugas, dan dampingan dari dua OBK. Pengumpulan informasi dengan wawancara mendalam berdasarkan pedoman wawancara dan diolah menggunakan metode content analysis. Kendala yang dihadapi OBK yaitu alur rujukan BPJS yang mengikuti domisili sehingga memberatkan pasien, kurang optimalnya koordinasi dan kerjasama antara OBK dengan Puskesmas, belum meratanya kualitas dan kapasitas SDM anggota OBK, persoalan administratif organisasi, sumber dana yang tidak selalu kontinu, adanya perbedaan kepentingan antara OBK dengan pihak kepolisian, serta masih tingginya stigma masyarakat terhadap penderita HIV/AIDS. Solusi mengatasi kendala OBK dilakukan dengan peningkatan efektifitas pelaksanaan program pemerintah melalui OBK, antara lain dengan penerapan fleksibilitas pengelolaan dana berdasarkan kinerja OBK, peningkatan kapasitas SDM, pemantapan sistem manajerial, pemahaman alur layanan kesehatan di Puskesmas, serta social support bagi penderita HIV/AIDS. Kata kunci: organisasi berbasis komunitas, LSM, HIV/AIDS Abstract The increasing number of HIV/AIDS cases in Indonesia that impact not only on health issues, spur the Government to involve civil society in community-based organizations (OBK) to play a role in HIV/AIDS prevention program. Identification of constraints or obstacles faced by OBK do as they can generate alternative strategies or solutions to overcome these constraints, and provide a more synchronous model of intervention between the government and the community. This type of research is a case study at two AIDS Awareness NGOs in Jakarta. The informants were chosen by purposive sampling ie the board, members/officers, and assistants from the two NGOs. Information collection with by in-depth interview based on interview guideline and processed using content analysis method. Constraints faced by the OBK is the issue of referral flow pathways that follow the domicile so burdensome patients, less optimal coordination and cooperation between OBK with primary health care, uneven quality and capacity of human resources of NGO members, organizational administrative issues, sources of funds that are not always continuous, different interests between the OBK with the police department, and the stigma. Reduction of obstacles faced by OBK can be done by increasing the effectiveness of government program implementation through OBK, among others by applying flexibility of fund management based on OBK performance, human resource capacity building, managerial system strengthening, understanding of health service flow in primary health care, and social support for patient HIV/AIDS. Keywords: community-based organizations, NGOs, HIV/AIDS

Community Partners for Health: Urban Health Coalitions in Lagos, Nigeria

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Brieger ◽  
Sam A. Orisasona ◽  
P. Bolade Ogunlade ◽  
U. Olu. Ayodele ◽  
Ayo Iroko
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Child Survival ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
The Public ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Community Based Organizations

Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS) was given a mandate by USAID to find innovative ways to meet the child health needs of poor Nigerian urban communities. BASICS inventoried communities in the Lagos metropolitan area to identify community-based organizations (CBOs) and private health facilities (HFs) that could form coalitions that might plan and deliver child and family health services such as immunization and prompt treatment. Six Community Partners for Health (CPHs) coalitions formed in late 1995. In late 1997, a documentation of the progress and processes of CPH formation and functioning was carried out through a review of documents, interviews with CPH leaders, discussions with CBO members, and textual analysis of CPH board meeting minutes to define the CPH approach, the organizational structures that result from that approach, the achievements of the CPHs and the potential sustainability of the approach. All CPHs have developed a work plan and all have undertaken programmatic activities including child immunization campaigns, environmental clean-up, and awareness campaigns to alert the public on the dangers of HIV/AIDS. Most CPHs have also developed three main mechanisms for financial sustainability. Finally, CPHs have also been calling on each other for technical and management assistance. This augers well for future independent action and sustainability, and BASICS staff themselves have been promoting inter-CPH communication and activities among the Lagos CPHs.

scholarly journals Responsibilization and Sexual Stigma Under Austerity: Surveying Public Support for Government-Funded PrEP in England

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-653
Author(s):  
Timothy Hildebrandt ◽  
Leticia Bode ◽  
Jessica S. C. Ng
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sexual Stigma ◽  
The Government ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
Media Narratives

Abstract Introduction Under austerity, governments shift responsibilities for social welfare to individuals. Such responsibilization can be intertwined with pre-existing social stigmas, with sexually stigmatized individuals blamed more for health problems due to “irresponsible” sexual behavior. To understand how sexual stigma affects attitudes on government healthcare expenditures, we examine public support for government-provisioned PrEP in England at a time when media narratives cast the drug as an expensive benefit for a small, irresponsible social group and the National Health Service’s long-term sustainability was in doubt. Methods This paper uses data from an original survey (N = 738) conducted in September 2016, when public opinion should be most sensitive to sexual stigma. A survey experiment tests how the way beneficiaries of PrEP were described affected support for NHS provision of it. Contrary to expectations, we found that support was high (mean = 3.86 on a scale of 1 to 5) irrespective of language used or beneficiary group mentioned. Differences between conditions were negligible. Discussion Sexual stigma does not diminish support for government-funded PrEP, which may be due to reverence for the NHS; resistance to responsibilization generally; or just to HIV, with the public influenced by sympathy and counter-messaging. Social policy implications Having misjudged public attitudes, it may be difficult for the government to continue to justify not funding PrEP; the political rationale for contracting out its provision is unnecessary and flawed. With public opinion resilient to responsibilization narratives and sexual stigma even under austerity, welfare retrenchment may be more difficult than social policymakers presume.

scholarly journals ANALISIS KESEDIAAN MEMBAYAR JASA LINGKUNGAN DALAM PENGELOLAAN SUMBERDAYA AIR MINUM TERPADU DI INDONESIA (STUDI KASUS DAS CISADANE HULU)

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fauzi Sutopo ◽  
Bunasor Sanim ◽  
Yusman Saukat ◽  
Muhammad Ikhwanuddin Mawardi
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Positive Response ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Water Users ◽  
The Government ◽  
Model Approach

Ecocentrism paradigm in development are intended to ensure the sustainability of water resources in the future for future generations. The research methodology was conducted with the model approach to drinking water users willingness to pay for environmental services (YWTP). The results in Analysis Willingness to Pay in Drinking Water Management in the Upstream Watershed Cisadane illustrates that the existence of a positive response from drinking water users (entrepreneurs) to be willingness to pay for environmental services (YWTP) as payment and reward for environmental services to the public because it is influenced by the presence and the beneficiaries are significantly linearly with level of education (sig. 0.041) and Variable in YWTP education significant at 95% confidence level. Policy implications of this research that the user (downstream) is willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental services with averaging Rp1 538.65 per m3 as payment or reward for environmental services to society (upstream), so the Government (Local) PES has a potential revenue to fund conservation of Rp106.94 billion per years, but in current conditions the government only earns Rp20.57 billionper year, so that only reached 19.24%.

scholarly journals FILANTROPI BERBASIS FAITH BASED ORGANIZATION DI INDONESIA (Studi Kasus Program PKPU)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Amril Maryolo
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Humanitarian Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

Philanthropy is an act of generosity that has a sense of sympathy for human beings. Generosity is an integral part of the character of Indonesian society, derived from religious wisdom, culture, and a strong sense of community. The existence of Faith Based Organization (religious-based organization) helps the government in overcoming the social inequalities that occur in middle and lower society. One of the humanitarian organizations based on Islam in Indonesia is the Post of Justice Peduli Ummat (PKPU) which provides assistance, various forms of social activities in various fields. The presence of these humanitarian agencies in Indonesia marks the "new practice of philanthropy" of the Islamic philanthropy movement in realizing the public welfare.

Hanging by a thread: legislation and protecting the public

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 248-248
Author(s):  
Sharon King
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
The Public ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Government

The aesthetics sector is marred by a lack of legislation and regulation which puts patients and practices at risk. The BACN is calling for greater regulation by the government, but so far this has been slow in coming. In this article, Sharon King discusses some recent developments

Community organizing in anti-corruption initiatives through spontaneous participation: Bangladesh perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Huda Sakib
Keyword(s):  
Community Organizing ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The Government ◽  
Corruption Prevention

Abstract In the past few years, community organizing has been initiated by different government and non-government organizations in corruption prevention through creating social awareness and motivation. The question arises: Can community-based organizations or community organizing empower people to raise their voice to prevent corruption? Based on empirical evidence, this research argues that engaging the community in anti-corruption initiatives can be an effective way to avert corruption and empower people’s voice. The finding shows that anti-corruption initiatives through spontaneous individual and collective involvement at the local level have an impact on creating accountability and transparency. Despite several challenges, these group and individual efforts have had significant results in promoting anti-corruption efforts in Bangladesh. Effective anti-corruption initiatives in engaging the community need ‘spontaneous’ participation by individuals or groups. As such, the government should give primacy of these individuals and groups and use them to create more formalized corruption watchdog bodies at the sub-regional level and make it a stronger National Integrity Systems foundation.

scholarly journals If You See Something, Say Something: Lateral Surveillance and the Uses of Responsibility

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 235-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Community Based ◽  
Norman Conquest ◽  
Neighborhood Watch ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure

The US Department of Homeland Security’s new “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign displays a renewed drive to redistribute surveillance responsibilities to the public. Using this campaign as its point of departure, this article examines the relationship between conditions of sovereign governance and public lateral surveillance campaigns. As the police and other sovereign institutions have receded from their traditional public responsibilities, many surveillance functions have been assumed by the lay population via neighborhood watch and other community-based programs. Comparing this development with the policing functions of lateral surveillance during the Norman Conquest, this article provides a historically grounded analysis of the potential for this responsibilization to fracture the social by transforming communal bonds into technologies of surveillance power.

scholarly journals Report from the Field: Public History at Howard University

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Public History ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Specialized Knowledge ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Howard University ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Private Corporations

At Howard University, the public history program uses new empirical methodologies and pedagogies to engage students and nonacademic audiences. This article outlines the specialized knowledge, perspectives, approaches, practices, issues, and critical concerns of this program. It illustrates how focused, innovative research opportunities simultaneously move students beyond the boundaries of academic theories, publicly funded agencies, private corporations, or entrepreneurial firms while helping them remain sensitive to community-based programs, projects, institutions, and constituencies. Public history is congruent with service, a core value of Howard University, and it strengthens the university's ability to reach beyond the confines of academe; define, shape, and immerse students in challenging new historical syntheses; and inclusively document social, economic, political, and cultural histories that might otherwise go untold.

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