scholarly journals Gown Goes to Town: Negotiating Mutually Beneficial Relationships between College Students, City Planners, and a Historically Marginalized African-American Neighborhood

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
April Jackson ◽  
Tisha Holmes ◽  
Tyler McCreary
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
African American Community ◽  
State University ◽  
Community Members ◽  
University Planning ◽  
City Planners

University–community partnerships have long sought to develop interventions to empower historically marginalized community members. However, there is limited critical attention to tensions faced when community engaged courses support urban planning initiatives in communities of color. This article explores how three Florida State University planning classes sought to engage the predominantly African-American Griffin Heights community in Tallahassee, Florida. Historically, African-American communities have been marginalized from the planning process, undermining community trust and constraining city planning capacity to effectively engage and plan with African-American community members. In this context, there are opportunities for planning departments with relationships in the African-American community to facilitate more extensive community engagement and urban design processes that interface with broader city planning programs. However, mediating relationships between the community and the city within the context of applied planning classes presents unique challenges. Although city planners have increasingly adopted the language of community engagement, many processes remain inflexible, bureaucratic, and under resourced. Reliance on inexperienced students to step in as community bridges may also limit the effectiveness of community engagement. Thus, while community engaged courses create opportunities to facilitate community empowerment, they also at times risk perpetuating the disenfranchisement of African-American community members in city planning processes.

scholarly journals Bringing Older Adults to the Table: Opportunities for Consumer Engagement in Planning and Policy Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 102-102
Author(s):  
Alice Prendergast ◽  
Kristi Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Service Planning ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Design Data

Abstract Efforts to include community voice in health policy and service planning are gaining recognition and support in the United States. Findings suggest community involvement can contribute to a better understanding of systems and factors that impact health, and, subsequently, more effective and sustainable policy and program design. Additionally, engagement can increase community buy-in, and community members can gain a greater awareness of services; increased confidence navigating systems; feelings of social connectedness; and capacity to advocate around issues through participation. Despite these findings, the extent to which community members are engaged in planning and decision-making varies considerably. Researchers from Georgia State University conducted a review of state plans on aging using the Person-Centered Outcomes Research Initiative (PCORI) Engagement Principles and the Health Research & Educational Trust’s Community and Patient Engagement Spectrum as frameworks to assess evidence of community engagement. The frameworks recognize engagement throughout the planning process, including design, data collection and interpretation, and dissemination. The review revealed that few planning processes described significant engagement, but rather met the minimal requirements established by federal policy. Federal guidance on community-informed planning practices is sparse, as are resources to support states in adopting these processes. To address this gap, the research team drew on the frameworks and other promising practices to design two community engagement projects, both in partnership with Georgia’s Division of Aging Services. Methods for participant engagement, data collection, interpretation and application of results, and lessons learned through both projects will be discussed, as well as potential implications.

Beliefs About Causes of Schizophrenia Among Urban African American Community Members

2010 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Broussard ◽  
Sandra M. Goulding ◽  
Colin L. Talley ◽  
Michael T. Compton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Community Members

scholarly journals 3392 Tapping into Community Insight and Lived Experience to Inform, Guide and Direct Translational Science Initiatives

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (s1) ◽  
pp. 95-95
Author(s):  
Miles McNeeley ◽  
Katrina Kubicek ◽  
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati ◽  
Karen D. Lincoln ◽  
Michele Kipke
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Community Advisory Board ◽  
Translational Science ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Black African ◽  
African American Communities ◽  
Community Input

OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: This study aims to describe adaptability in methods used to apply community input to programming within the field of translational science. The outcomes of community informed programming include opportunities for innovative projects and approaches, and better responsiveness to community needs. It is anticipated that this will result in greater community involvement in research, moving towards greater health equity. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: The SC CTSI is situated in urban Los Angeles, one of the most diverse communities in the world. Eight SC CTSI Community Engagement Core initiatives that employ community partnership are illustrated. The activities include social marketing campaigns for cervical cancer prevention; use of community-embedded research ambassadors to increase scientific literacy in Latino and Black/African-American communities; use of innovative technologies to educate pediatric patients and families about clinical research; working with the entertainment industry to promote clinical research in popular television shows; a community advisory board that is tailored and embedded in each CSTA core group; a community based research dissemination program; an ad-hoc community advisory group assembled to adapt a research 101 curriculum for Black/African-American communities; and a series of listening sessions conducted throughout Los Angeles. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Integration of community voices provide direction for future planning, programming and execution of all referenced initiatives. Ultimately, the goal for these discussions with community members is to develop innovative approaches to CTSA programming. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Racial and ethnic minorities continue to experience underrepresentation in clinical research trials. CTSAs have been tasked with addressing barriers that have historically led to disparities in research participation, and by extension, the effectiveness of medical interventions in diverse populations. Community input is an invaluable source for knowledge and innovative ideas in how to increase involvement in various aspects of the research process, including dissemination, recruitment and enrollment in clinical trials. CTSAs have increasingly augmented Community Engagement programs within their respective cores to address population disparities. The approaches used to engage communities require an element of fluidity and flexibility, and a reliance on the input of community members, in order to maintain relevant and desired community engagement practices.

scholarly journals Pelatihan, Pendamping dan Evaluasi Peningkatan Kapasitas Masyarakat di Tingkat Kelurahan dalam Mewujudkan Lorong Sehat Makassar

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
Adelia Undangsari Mangilep ◽  
Sukri Paluttui ◽  
Syamsuddin ◽  
Rini Angraeni ◽  
Noer Bahry Noor
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Basic Health ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Child Health

Lorong Sehat (Longset) is one of the innovation programs to realize the improvement of the lives of healthy citizens of Makassar City. This program is specifically aimed at increasing public awareness to protect the environment and clean and healthy living behavior, from providing socialization to program evaluation to community members, one of which is to teach healthy life, wash hands before eating, get used to checking babies/toddlers to posyandu if there is , dispose of garbage in its place, and so on so that basic health can be fulfilled. This program is also contained in the Makassar City Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMD) document for the 2014-2019 period. This service is a response to the existence of several problems that focus on the problems mostly in the periphery (slum area) which in this case is dominated by people living in 7000 aisles/alleys of Makassar City who have difficulty reaching basic health data. This planning process involves the community together with the government conducted at a Planning and Development Deliberation (Musrembang) meeting and monitored directly by leaders in the Health Office, such as section heads, field heads, official secretaries and even agency heads who directly monitor through the head of the puskesmas and figures community about health problems. The immediate impact of community empowerment was that the residents in the hallway were immediately handled by the people who had been given training and direct coordination by the puskesmas. Based on the results of the analysis on the healthy Aisle training there was an increase in participants knowledge regarding healthy aisles, Clean and Healthy Life Behavior (PHBS), Non-Smoking Areas (KTR), personal hygiene and Maternal and Child Health (MCH). With the existence of this healthy Hallway training, it is expected that the trainees can apply the knowledge they have acquired and can spread their knowledge to the people in their environment so that they can help the development process of the healthy Hallway.

Liberation Through Literacy

2017 ◽  
pp. 35-82
Author(s):  
Joshua Clark Davis
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Black History ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Mind

Chapter two examines Black-Power activists who founded scores of bookstores throughout the country in the 1960s and ‘70s, hoping to prompt both a “revolution of the mind” and a transformation of business culture in black communities. These activists hailed bookstores as information centers where African American community members could meet to learn about and agitate for radical movements for racial equality and black progress. African American booksellers’ sought to further the work of the Black Power movement by affirming racial pride, celebrating black history and identity, and promoting connections to and interest in Africa. As Black Power declined over the course of the 1970s, however, black bookstores were compelled to deal in an ever broader range of black-authored written works, many of them less political in nature.

THE IMAGE OF VIENNA: CITY AS MUSEUM OR DYNAMIC DEVELOPED METROPOLIS?

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
Mara Liepa-Zemesa
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
City Planners

The article discusses trends of Vienna’s architectonic spatial development. Vienna is a city that, one the one hand, lives in its historical arhitecture and city planning and, on the other hand, has allowed innovative building in certain areas. Historical development of Vienna was analyzed, underlining aspects which have had the most impact to the current urban fabric. Since in the federal country of Austria Vienna is a state and a municipality at the same time, it has created its own special planning instruments and regulation for city planning. In achieving more sucessfull city planning results, city planners have admitted that development of informal planning is necessary, paying large attention to involving society in the planning process.

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