Contributions of Community Involvement to Organizational-Level Empowerment: The Federal Healthy Start Experience

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 783-807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Minkler ◽  
Mildred Thompson ◽  
Judith Bell ◽  
Kalima Rose
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Healthy Start ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Healthy Start Program

This article presents findings of a multisite case study of the experience of nine federal Healthy Start Program sites in using consortia and other community involvement strategies in the fight against infant mortality. Using empowerment theory as a conceptual framework, qualitative data are employed to examine howcommunity involvement in the program through community-based consortia and other means contributed to empowerment at the organizational level. The article concludes with implications of the study findings for practice both within Healthy Start and in the context of other community-based health initiatives.

scholarly journals The Impact on Clients of a Community-Based Infant Mortality Reduction Program: The National Healthy Start Program Survey of Postpartum Women

2001 ◽  
Vol 91 (12) ◽  
pp. 1975-1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie C. McCormick ◽  
Lisa W. Deal ◽  
Barbara L. Devaney ◽  
Dexter Chu ◽  
Lorenzo Moreno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Healthy Start ◽  
Postpartum Women ◽  
Mortality Reduction ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Reduction Program ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Healthy Start Program ◽  
Start Program

scholarly journals Shifting from “Community-Placed” to “Community-Based” Research to Advance Health Equity: A Case Study of the Heatwaves, Housing, and Health: Increasing Climate Resiliency in Detroit (HHH) Partnership

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (18) ◽  
pp. 3310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd B. Ziegler ◽  
Chris M. Coombe ◽  
Zachary E. Rowe ◽  
Sarah J. Clark ◽  
Carina J. Gronlund ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Steering Committee ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Significant Public Health ◽  
Hot Weather

Extreme summertime heat is a significant public health threat that disproportionately impacts vulnerable urban populations. Research on health impacts of climate change (including increasing intensity, duration, and frequency of hot weather) is sometimes designed and implemented without the involvement of the communities being studied, i.e., “community-placed” not “community-based.” We describe how the Heatwaves, Housing, and Health: Increasing Climate Resiliency in Detroit (HHH) partnership engaged relevant communities by integrating a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach into an existing, academic-designed research project through a steering committee of community and academic partners. Using a case study approach, we analyze program documentation, partnership evaluation questionnaires, and HHH steering committee meeting notes. We describe the CBPR process by which we successfully collected research data in Detroit during summer 2016, engaged in collaborative analysis of data, and shared results with Detroit residents. Evaluations of the partnership over 2 years show community involvement in research; enhanced capacities; success in securing new grant funding; and ways that CBPR strengthened the validity, relevance, and translation of research. Engaging communities as equal partners using CBPR, even after a study is underway, can strengthen research to understand and address the impacts of extreme heat on health and equity in urban communities.

Evaluation of community participation in the implementation of community-based sanitation systems: a case study from Indonesia

2010 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 1028-1036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Roma ◽  
Paul Jeffrey
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Least Developed Countries ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Development Goals

Acceptance and adequate use of water and sanitation technologies in least developed countries is still a chimera, with one billion people using unimproved water supply sources and 2.5 billion not benefitting from adequate sanitation. Public participation in water and sanitation planning and pre-implementation phases has become increasingly important for technology providers seeking solutions to implementation challenges towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Based on the principle that successful implementation of WATSAN technologies ultimately depends on recipients' ability to absorb a technology and adapt it to their own needs, this study analyses the impacts of participatory methods adopted by community-based sanitation (CBS) providers on communities' receptivity of the transferred systems. A fieldwork activity was undertaken in Indonesia and a multiple case study approach adopted to analyse indicators of receptivity of the transferred technologies. Conclusions show that community involvement through participatory methods in the implementation of CBS systems can enhance the process of acceptance and management of the technologies, thereby increasing the progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Using Community Involvement Strategies in the Fight against Infant Mortality: Lessons from a Multisite Study of the National Healthy Start Experience

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Minkler ◽  
Mildred Thompson ◽  
Judith Bell ◽  
Kalima Rose ◽  
Dina Redman
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Healthy Start

scholarly journals Co-establishing an infrastructure for routine data collection to address disparities in infant mortality: planning and implementation

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naleef Fareed ◽  
Christine M. Swoboda ◽  
John Lawrence ◽  
Tyler Griesenbrock ◽  
Timothy Huerta
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Routine Data ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Line Work ◽  
Birth Records ◽  
Routine Data Collection ◽  
Data Elements

Abstract Background Efforts to address infant mortality disparities in Ohio have historically been adversely affected by the lack of consistent data collection and infrastructure across the community-based organizations performing front-line work with expectant mothers, and there is no established template for implementing such systems in the context of diverse technological capacities and varying data collection magnitude among participating organizations. Methods Taking into account both the needs and limitations of participating community-based organizations, we created a data collection infrastructure that was refined by feedback from sponsors and the organizations to serve as both a solution to their existing needs and a template for future efforts in other settings. Results By standardizing the collected data elements across participating organizations, integration on a scale large enough to detect changes in a rare outcome such as infant mortality was made possible. Datasets generated through the use of the established infrastructure were robust enough to be matched with other records, such as Medicaid and birth records, to allow more extensive analysis. Conclusion While a consistent data collection infrastructure across multiple organizations does require buy-in at the organizational level, especially among participants with little to no existing data collection experience, an approach that relies on an understanding of existing barriers, iterative development, and feedback from sponsors and participants can lead to better coordination and sharing of information when addressing health concerns that individual organizations may struggle to quantify alone.

A Case Study of Psychosocial Support: Programs in Response to the 2004 Asia Tsunami

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Author(s):  
Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Tsunami Disaster ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
First Aid Training ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Teacher's Manual

This case study presents and discusses the psychosocial support program (PSP) that was conducted in the Republic of Maldives following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. The PSP intervention included providing psychological first-aid training to counsellors and teachers, modifying a teacher's manual and training teachers to share its contents with peers, and conducting a training workshop so that professionals could take over the implementation of the PSP. This article also examines the five strategies involved in general PSPs, which include: using a community-based approach; ensuring that interventions are contextually, culturally, and linguistically appropriate; empowerment; community participation; and active involvement. This review found that PSPs were effective during the emergency and reconstruction phases of disasters. It also underscores the importance of community involvement, and ensuring that PSPs are contextually and culturally appropriate.

Back to the Future: Community Involvement in the Healthy Start Program

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Embry M. Howell ◽  
Barbara Devaney ◽  
Marie McCormick ◽  
Karen Thiel Raykovich
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Healthy Start ◽  
The Future ◽  
Healthy Start Program ◽  
Start Program

scholarly journals The MPA’s Leadership Style in Community-Based Forest and Land Fire Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Kushartati Budiningsih ◽  
Elvida Yosefi Suryandari ◽  
Ane Dwi Septina
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Fire Control ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Care Community ◽  
Community Or ◽  
In Fire

Community involvement in forest and land fires management at site level is important due to the community can play a central role in preventing forest and land fires. One of the programs that involves the community in controlling forest and land fires is the Fire Care Community or Masyarakat Peduli Api (MPA). The MPA institution is a group consisting of members who join voluntarily. As a organization, MPA requires leadership that is able to mobilize members to carry out their role. MPA Wonorejo in Musi Banyuasin Regency, South Sumatra Province, is one of the successful MPAs. In this case the leader of MPA Wonorejo received the Wana Lestari award from the Minister of Environment and Forestry in 2018. With the case study method, this research was conducted to explore the leadership style that has been applied to the Wonorejo MPA. The results showed that MPA Wonorejo's leadership style is a transformational style with charismatic characters, inspires members, encourages intellectuality and provides individual attention. The leader of MPA has an important role in mobilizing MPA members to play a role in fire control.

scholarly journals Co-establishing an infrastructure for routine data collection to address disparities in infant mortality: Planning and implementation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naleef Fareed ◽  
Christine Swoboda ◽  
Tyler Griesenbrock ◽  
John Lawrence ◽  
Timothy Huerta
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Routine Data ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Line Work ◽  
Birth Records ◽  
Routine Data Collection ◽  
Data Elements

Background Efforts to address infant mortality disparities in Ohio have historically been adversely affected by the lack of consistent data collection and infrastructure across the community-based organizations performing front-line work with expectant mothers, and there is no established template for implementing such systems in the context of diverse technological capacities and varying data collection magnitude among participating organizations. Methods Taking into account both the needs and limitations of participating community-based organizations, we created a data collection infrastructure that was refined by feedback from sponsors and the organizations to serve as both a solution to their existing needs and a template for future efforts in other settings. Results By standardizing the collected data elements across participating organizations, integration on a scale large enough to detect changes in a rare outcome such as infant mortality was made possible. Datasets generated through the use of the established infrastructure were robust enough to be matched with other records, such as Medicaid and birth records, to allow more extensive analysis. Conclusion While a consistent data collection infrastructure across multiple organizations does require buy-in at the organizational level, especially among participants with little to no existing data collection experience, an approach that relies on an understanding of existing barriers, iterative development, and feedback from sponsors and participants can lead to better coordination and sharing of information when addressing health concerns that individual organizations may struggle to quantify alone.

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