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.

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.

What Coalition Factors Foster Community Capacity? Lessons Learned From the Fighting Back Initiative

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 354-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronda C. Zakocs ◽  
Sarah Guckenburg
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Leadership ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Lead Agency ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Quantitative Analyses

Coalitions build community capacity by encouraging local organizations to expand services, programs, or policies (i.e., organizational capacity). The aim of the study was to identify coalition factors—resources, lead agency, governance, and leadership—that foster organizational capacity. Thirteen coalitions funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Fighting Back (FB) Initiative were examined in a multiple-site case study where coalition served as the unit of analysis. Organizational capacity was measured by creating a scale for each community based on changes in programs, services, or policies among eight types of organizations. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses were conducted to identify relationships among organizational capacity and coalition factors. FB sites with greater organizational capacity shared seven characteristics: received more funds for coalition building; delayed establishing new lead agencies; were housed in agencies supportive of FB; maintained stable, participatory decision-making bodies; cultivated active involvement of local government; practiced collaborative leadership; and had effective, long-serving project directors.

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 Learning Together to Heal: Toward an Integrated Practice of Transpersonal Psychology, Experiential Learning, and Neuroscience for Collective Healing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsushi Arai ◽  
Jean Niyonzima
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Transpersonal Psychology ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Psychosocial Wellbeing ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
How People Learn ◽  
Integrated Practice

This essay brings together complementary insights from transpersonal psychology, experiential learning, and neuroscience to develop an integrated framework of psychosocial healing in societies affected by conflict and trauma. While transpersonal psychology examines the spiritual and transcendental aspects of psychosocial wellbeing, research on experiential learning examines how people learn from direct experience. Recognizing that both are useful for psychosocial healing, the first part of the essay explores how the two sets of activities can complement each other. Of particular interest is the role of transpersonal exercises such as yoga and meditation, as well as the purposeful use of experiential learning techniques such as storytelling, rituals, and metaphors. To examine the scientific foundations of these activities for psychosocial healing, findings from neuroscientific studies supported by the latest technology of neuroimaging will be discussed. The final section of the essay introduces a brief case study of the Ubuntu Center for Peace, a Rwanda-based nongovernmental organization dedicated to community-based psychosocial support. The case study illustrates how the proposed integrative framework can be used to tackle a real-world context of conflict and trauma. It includes preliminary findings from a program evaluation of the community-based social healing initiative that the Ubuntu Center carried out in Rwanda.

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 Green development and participation-implications for countries in transition: Case study of Stara Planina, Republic of Serbia

Spatium ◽  
2008 ◽  
pp. 38-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masa Perovic
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Countries In Transition ◽  
Communist Past ◽  
High Level

The following research looks at opportunities and obstacles for applying public participation and sustainable environmental management in countries in transition. The case study analyses how the plans to develop a ski resort on the Stara Planina in the Republic of Serbia were created. The results show that factors which influence unsustainable developments are a lack of enforceable laws and the rule of law; lack of public awareness and information on relevant issues; weak civil society and lack of community involvement in decision making; high level of corruption in government and the public sector; highly politicized society with much influence from informal sources of power and their interests. The research concludes that with effective public participation the developments would be more environmentally sustainable. For participation to be effective there is a need to raise environmental awareness in the region as a consequence of the communist past and marginalisation of rural areas. .

scholarly journals Study of Community Based Tourism in the District West Java

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-285
Author(s):  
Juliana ◽  
Rizaldi Parani ◽  
Nova Irene Bernedeta Sitorus ◽  
Rudy Pramono ◽  
Sandra Maleachi
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Good Potential ◽  
Tourism Activity ◽  
Tourist Village ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to determine on how the concept of community based tourism is applied in several tourist villages in West Bandung Regency. This study uses a qualitative method with a case study concept. Data collection techniques used in the study were observation, in-depth interviews, literature study and documentation. The conclusions of this study are: Cibodas Village has been running and feeling the impact of community-based tourism and can be an example for other tourist villages in West Bandung Regency. The community of Sunten Jaya Village has not been active in managing tourism activity, this village has the potential to develop community-based tourism with serious assistance and support from the government. Cihanjuang Rahayu Village also has good potential to be developed with the concept of community-based tourism but assistance is still needed to be more focused on improving accessibility and tourism support facilities. Rende Village, there are some issues that need to be addressed in this village related to tourism management, community involvement and village managers where previously there was an assistance but it did not work well. This village needs to be considered and actively assisted if it is to be developed into a tourist village.

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