The effectiveness of community-based interventions to reduce violence in and around licensed premises: a comparison of three Australian models

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 805-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernie Lang ◽  
Greg Rumbold
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
The West ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Licensed Premises ◽  
Early Success ◽  
Action Project ◽  
Industry Associations ◽  
Safety Action

The findings of the Australian National Committee on Violence and the outcomes of a National Symposium on Alcohol and Violence have encouraged an interest in locally based initiatives to deal with the problem of alcohol-related violence in and around licensed premises in Australia. The first initiatives to emerge were in the form of local accords between police and licensees, with varying degrees of input and support from local government, licensing authorities, the various liquor industry associations, and the local community. To date none of these accords has had any legislative backing nor been underpinned by signed agreements, relying solely on the cooperation of the various parties. The early success claimed by the pioneering accords has resulted in their proliferation throughout Australia. This paper reviews three of the better-known accords, the West End Forum Project, the Surfers Paradise Safety Action Project, and the Geelong Local Industry Accord. Some general conclusions are made regarding the factors that are important with respect to the sustainability and efficacy of these approaches.

scholarly journals Barriers and Facilitators for the Implementation and Evaluation of Community-Based Interventions to Promote Physical Activity and Healthy Diet: A Mixed Methods Study in Argentina

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Belizan ◽  
R. Chaparro ◽  
Marilina Santero ◽  
Natalia Elorriaga ◽  
Nadja Kartschmit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Project Evaluation ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Healthy Diet ◽  
Barriers And Facilitators ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Community Based

Background: Obesogenic environments promote sedentary behavior and high dietary energy intake. The objective of the study was to identify barriers and facilitators to the implementation and impact evaluation of projects oriented to promote physical activity and healthy diet at community level. We analyzed experiences of the projects implemented within the Healthy Municipalities and Communities Program (HMCP) in Argentina. Methods: A mixed methods approach included (1) in-depth semi-structured interviews, with 44 stakeholders; and (2) electronic survey completed by 206 individuals from 96 municipalities across the country. Results: The most important barriers included the lack of: adequate funding (43%); skilled personnel (42%); equipment and material resources (31%); technical support for data management and analysis (20%); training on project designs (12%); political support from local authorities (17%) and acceptance of the proposed intervention by the local community (9%). Facilitators included motivated local leaders, inter-sectorial participation and seizing local resources. Project evaluation was mostly based on process rather than outcome indicators. Conclusions: This study contributes to a better understanding of the difficulties in the implementation of community-based intervention projects. Findings may guide stakeholders on how to facilitate local initiatives. There is a need to improve project evaluation strategies by incorporating process, outcome and context specific indicators.

scholarly journals Sustaining community-based interventions for people affected by dementia long term: the SCI-Dem realist review

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. e047789
Author(s):  
Thomas Morton ◽  
Geoff Wong ◽  
Teresa Atkinson ◽  
Dawn Brooker
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Realist Review ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Community Based

ObjectivesCommunity-based support for people with earlier-stage dementia and their care partners, such as regularly meeting groups and activities, can play an important part in postdiagnostic care. Typically delivered piecemeal in the UK, by a variety of agencies with inconsistent funding, provision is fragmented and many such interventions struggle to continue after only a short start-up period. This realist review investigates what can promote or hinder such interventions in being able to sustain long term.MethodsKey sources of evidence were gathered using formal searches of electronic databases and grey literature, together with informal search methods such as citation tracking. No restrictions were made on article type or study design; only data pertaining to regularly meeting, ongoing, community-based interventions were included. Data were extracted, assessed, organised and synthesised and a realist logic of analysis applied to trace context–mechanism–outcome configurations as part an overall programme theory. Consultation with stakeholders, involved with a variety of such interventions, informed this process throughout.ResultsAbility to continually get and keep members; staff and volunteers; the support of other services and organisations; and funding/income were found to be critical, with multiple mechanisms feeding into these suboutcomes, sensitive to context. These included an emphasis on socialising and person-centredness; lowering stigma and logistical barriers; providing support and recognition for personnel; networking, raising awareness and sharing with other organisations, while avoiding conflict; and skilled financial planning and management.ConclusionsThis review presents a theoretical model of what is involved in the long-term sustainability of community-based interventions. Alongside the need for longer-term funding and skilled financial management, key factors include the need for stigma-free, person-centred provision, sensitive to members’ diversity and social needs, as well as the need for a robust support network including the local community, health and care services. Challenges were especially acute for small scale and rural groups.

Exploratory Feasibility Study of Quokka: A Local Community-Based Social Network for Wellbeing (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Shih ◽  
Ruhi Pudipeddi ◽  
Arany Uthayakumar ◽  
Peter Washington
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Similar Proportion ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Healthy Habits ◽  
Will Self

BACKGROUND Developing healthy habits and maintaining prolonged behavior change is often a difficult task. Mental health is one of the largest health concerns globally, including for people in college. OBJECTIVE We conduct an exploratory feasibility study of local community-based interventions, like Quokka, and evaluate the intervention’s potential for promotion of local, social, and unfamiliar activities as they pertain to healthy habits. METHODS To evaluate this framework’s potential for increased participation in healthy habits, we conducted a 6 to 8 week feasibility study via a ‘challenge’ across 4 university campuses with a total of 277 participants. A different wellbeing theme was chosen for each week. We conducted weekly surveys to gauge factors that motivated users to complete or not complete the weekly challenge, identified participation trends, and evaluated the effectiveness of the intervention. We tested the hypotheses that Quokka participants will self-report participation in more local activities over remote activities for all challenges, more social activities than individual activities, and new over familiar activities. RESULTS After Bonferroni correction using a Clopper-Pearson Binomial proportion confidence interval for one test, we reject the hypothesis that similar proportion of users would participate in local and remote activities during the challenges (p < 0.001 for all challenge themes). Instead, there was a strong preference for local activities for all challenge themes. Similarly, users significantly preferred group activities over individual activities (p < 0.001 for most challenge themes). For most challenge themes, there were not enough data to significantly distinguish preference towards familiar or new activities (p < 0.001 for a subset of challenge themes in some schools). CONCLUSIONS We find that local community-based wellbeing interventions like Quokka can facilitate positive behavior change. We discuss these findings and their implications for the research and design of location-based digital communities for wellbeing promotion.

Determination of core zone of marine sanctuary in Bahoi Village, North Minahasa Regency

2013 ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Sonny Tasidjawa ◽  
Stephanus V Mandagi ◽  
Ridwan Lasabuda
Keyword(s):  
Conventional Method ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Marine Biota ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Core Zone ◽  
The Core

Bahoi village is located in West Likupang District of North Minahasa Regency. It is one of the villages that is included in the conservation network of North Sulawesi Province. A marine sanctuary has been established in this village in 2003 and it has been managed by local community, known as community-based marine sanctuary management, since then, this sanctuary has been in operation. As a small community-based marine protected area with lots of users, it requires an appropriate method to determine the Core Zone that allows an effective preservation of the marine biota. This is the driving factor of this study.  The purpose of this study is to examine the processes and output of determining the core zone of a Marine Sanctuary using a conventional method and Marxan Method. The conventional method is a simple method in determining a core zone such as using manta tow technique. While Marxan, it only requires input of data such as spatial and figures to generate information for determining the core zone. After comparing the processes of these two methods in the study site, it was found that Marxan method was more effective and more accurate with lower costs than the conventional one. In addition, the final decision of the core zone depended on the outcome of the village meetings when the conventional method was applied. This long process could be avoided when Marxan method was used. Therefore, it is highly recommended to use Marxan in determining core zones© Desa Bahoi terletak di Kecamatan Likupang Barat Kabupaten Minahasa Utara. Desa ini merupakan salah satu desa yang masuk dalam jejaringan kawasan konservasi di Provinsi Sulawesi Utara. Sebuah Daerah Perlindungan Laut telah didirikan di desa ini pada tahun 2003 dan dikelolah oleh masyarakat setempat, yang dikenal sebagai pengelolaan Daerah Perlindungan Laut Berbasis Masyarakat, sejak saat itu Daerah Perlindungan Laut ini telah beroperasi. Sebagai Daerah Perlindungan Laut Berbasis Masyarakat yang kecil namun memiliki banyak pengguna, diperlukan metode tepat yang akan menentukan Zona Inti yang memungkinkan pelestarian biota laut menjadi sangat efektif. Ini adalah faktor pendorong dari penelitian. Selanjutnya, tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengkaji proses dan hasil penentuan zona inti Daerah Perlindungan Laut dengan menggunakan metode konvensional seperti survei manta tow dan marxan. Metode konvensional adalah metode sederhana dalam menentukan zona inti seperti teknik manta tow. Sedangkan marxan, hanya perlu memasukan data seperti spasial dan angka untuk menghasilkan informasi penentuan zona inti. Setelah membandingkan proses dari dua metode di lokasi penelitian, ditemukan bahwa metode marxan jauh lebih baik dari pada metode konvensional, karena lebih efektif, lebih akurat dengan biaya yang lebih rendah. Selain itu, keputusan akhir dari zona inti tergantung pada hasil rapat desa ketika metode konvensional diterapkan, proses panjang ini dapat dihindari jika metode marxan digunakan©

Community-Based Interventions to Reduce Child Maltreatment

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973152098696
Author(s):  
Camilla Kin-Ming Lo ◽  
Yuet Wing Cho
Keyword(s):  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Institutions ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Further Development

Purpose: This review seeks to summarize selected literature on existing findings on the impacts of community-based interventions on the actual reduction of child maltreatment and to identify the core components of the interventions. Methods: This study systematically searched electronic databases, including PsycInfo, Medline, and Web of Science. The findings of the selected studies were summarized using narrative synthesis. Results: A total of four studies met the inclusion criteria of this study. The studies showed declines in child maltreatment incidences reported by child protective services and hospitals during the study periods. Four major components and approaches were identified among the selected interventions, including (1) the involvement of community members, (2) partnerships with community institutions, (3) multidisciplinary collaboration, and (4) responsiveness to the needs of the communities involved. Conclusions: The results of this review support the need for further development of community-based interventions using a hybrid approach.

scholarly journals Homeless on Main Street: Using Photovoice to Highlight Older Adults Among the Hidden Homeless

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 728-728
Author(s):  
H Shellae Versey
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Service Agency ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Formerly Homeless

Abstract Homelessness is a reality for a growing number of Americans living in small towns and rural areas. However, unlike in cities, housing instability may be less visible. Using a photo-elicitation method (i.e., Photovoice), this study explores the meaning of place and obscured visibility to currently and formerly homeless older adults living in a small town in central Connecticut. Participants (N = 27) were recruited from a local service agency, given cameras and asked to photograph areas around town that were meaningful to them. Photographs were developed and followed by in-person, semi-structured interviews with participants in which photos and experiences during the project were discussed. Primary themes included belonging, generativity, social isolation, and place-making as meaning-making. The study culminated in a community photography exhibition in which photographs from the project were displayed in public spaces around town. Implications for community-based interventions to reach homeless groups in rural areas are discussed. Part of a symposium sponsored by the Qualitative Research Interest Group.

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