{"title":"Collaboration as organizational empowerment: a network perspective","authors":"Yohei Kato, Samson Lim, Keng Hua Chong","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2024.2310320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2024.2310320","url":null,"abstract":"Inter-organizational collaboration is central to Organizational Empowerment theory. It enables organizations to strengthen their capacity and to take collective action to achieve empowerment at mul...","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139764183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing the emotional and behavioral impact of community and extra curricular activities, police contact, and collective efficacy among youth","authors":"Michael C. Gearhart, Danielle Maude Littman","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2024.2310321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2024.2310321","url":null,"abstract":"A broad body of research suggests that interactions with the police can have a negative impact on emotional and behavioral outcomes among youth. Therefore, developing interventions that simultaneou...","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139578778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez, Sharmin Hoque, Stephanie L. Gutkin
{"title":"Impact of the 2016 presidential election and restrictive immigration climate on the work and wellbeing of Bangladeshi immigrant community frontline workers in New York City, U.S.A","authors":"R. Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez, Sharmin Hoque, Stephanie L. Gutkin","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2024.2310313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2024.2310313","url":null,"abstract":"Community-based organizations (CBOs) are key players in mitigating the impact of restrictive policy changes on immigrant communities. The ability of these organizations to help diffuse the stress c...","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139764182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mary L. Ohmer, Daniel Brisson, Kirk Foster, Cheryl Hyde, Jan Ivery
{"title":"Collaborations in community-engaged research: paving the way for the future of social work research","authors":"Mary L. Ohmer, Daniel Brisson, Kirk Foster, Cheryl Hyde, Jan Ivery","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2023.2287937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2023.2287937","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue focusing on collaborations between community-engaged scholars and community practice partners, provides a nod to our history, a celebration of current innovative research, and a ...","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":"112 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139022312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing a systems transformation action research approach: a qualitative cross-case analysis","authors":"Marissa E. P. Kaloga","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2023.2284192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2023.2284192","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores collaborations between community organizations and STARlab (Systems Transformation Action Research Lab), a university-based research unit focusing on inclusive social innovation...","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138680375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Creo que mi meta es ayudar a mi comunidad y ver un cambio”: Latinas/os remaking home through community-engaged mapping","authors":"Mónica Gutiérrez","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2023.2285329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2023.2285329","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an ethnographic and qualitative exploration of how resident-driven mapping shapes our understanding of place and space in a changing environment. Conducted from 2018 to 2022, th...","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138536267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Philadelphia Negro: community-university research collaboration in the 1890s","authors":"Paul H. Stuart","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2023.2282216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2023.2282216","url":null,"abstract":"W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Philadelphia Negro (1899) provides an early example of community-university research collaboration. This “From the Archives” article provides the text of two documents from th...","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138536268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Alex Wagaman, Kathryn Howell, Benjamin Teresa, Rachel Hefner, Hannah Woehrle, Tiffany S. Haynes, Jackie Lawrence
{"title":"Youth participatory action research as an empowerment-based method for community change","authors":"M. Alex Wagaman, Kathryn Howell, Benjamin Teresa, Rachel Hefner, Hannah Woehrle, Tiffany S. Haynes, Jackie Lawrence","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2023.2283446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2023.2283446","url":null,"abstract":"Youth participatory action research (YPAR) centers the experiences of young people as experts in issues impacting their lives. The process of engaging in YPAR has potential to create positive outco...","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138536271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colleen M. Fisher, Ritti Sangadji, Diana Njoki Mwangi
{"title":"Using bottom-up evaluation to build community practice-based evidence and strengthen community-engaged research","authors":"Colleen M. Fisher, Ritti Sangadji, Diana Njoki Mwangi","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2023.2276350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2023.2276350","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTNon-governmental organizations (NGOs) play a critical role in mitigating social problems by creating innovative interventions to address unmet community needs, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. These community-generated interventions are rarely evaluated or recognized within the prevention science lexicon that informs evidence-based practice, but bottom-up evaluation (BUE) offers researchers an approach to help reverse this trend. This paper illustrates BUE processes using evaluation of an NGO-created intervention for HIV-positive single mothers in Kenya as a case example. The participatory BUE study involved three phases: (1) viability assessment via qualitative participant interviews; (2) evaluation preparation and NGO capacity-building; and (3) effectiveness evaluation. Qualitative interview data revealed 24 intervention outcomes most impactful to participants’ lives and confirmed intervention viability. Participatory mapping identified key program outcomes for inclusion in the evaluation instrument, which was developed collaboratively with program staff. Effectiveness evaluation findings suggest that the intervention improved the health, psychosocial wellbeing, and economic security of single mothers facing the dual challenges of HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty. As illustrated in this study, bottom-up evaluation offers social work researchers an approach that can center voices of intervention participants, build community practice-based evidence, and strengthen community-engaged research in alignment with social work priorities and values.KEYWORDS: Community-engaged researchinterventionevaluationglobal social workparticipatory research AcknowledgmentsEarlier versions of this paper were presented at the American Public Health Association’s 2021 Annual Meeting and Expo and the 2023 Global Awareness Society International conference.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Digital story available at https://express.adobe.com/page/QLaQyHJ3c4ZZf/","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":"12 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135936348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James P. Huguley, Cecily D. Davis, Esther M. Stief, Rachelle H. Haynik, Monica A. Henderson, Bianca R. DeBellis, Sommer O. Blair, Anthony P. Williams, Marcia M. Sturdivant, Darryl T. Wiley, Melvin C. Cherry
{"title":"From Practice-to-Research-to-Practice: Leveraging Reciprocal Partnerships to Advance Racial Justice in Education Across Contexts and Ecological Levels","authors":"James P. Huguley, Cecily D. Davis, Esther M. Stief, Rachelle H. Haynik, Monica A. Henderson, Bianca R. DeBellis, Sommer O. Blair, Anthony P. Williams, Marcia M. Sturdivant, Darryl T. Wiley, Melvin C. Cherry","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2023.2272744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2023.2272744","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAfrican American families face significant racial barriers to their educational attainment. Within the experience of schooling specifically, anti-Black oppressive forces manifest in both structural and interpersonal forms, and existing challenges have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Black families have consistently developed strategies for navigating racialized educational barriers. Moreover, their own agency has been enhanced through engagement with justice-oriented community partnerships. The current study captures how a reciprocal university-community partnership advanced African American parent agency before and during the pandemic. The history of the partnership is first detailed, followed by a qualitative study of data from six parent focus groups regarding parents’ perceptions of barriers to educational success across public and private school contexts, their own efforts to overcome those barriers, and the role of the community university partnership in advancing the families’ educational aims. Findings reveal ecologically distinct racialized barriers in public and private school settings, with economic barriers transcending educational contexts. Black parents navigated these barriers with adaptative strategies across parent involvement domains. Implications for research, practice, and university-community partnerships are discussed.KEYWORDS: Community engagementafrican Americanseducationracial equityparentingqualitative research Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The terms African American and Black are used interchangeably throughout this text.2. A fifth founding program, Higher Achievement Pittsburgh, was a local chapter of a national organization before closing its doors in 2019 due to economic challenges. Higher Achievement Pittsburgh provided academic enrichment, mentoring, and educational counseling to more than 100 public middle school students annually.3. The terms parents and caregivers are used interchangeably throughout the manuscript to acknowledge the fact that the act of parenting – one of primary caregiving for a youth – is carried out by way of many familial and kinship roles (grandparents, older siblings, etc.). Both are used here as inclusive of having primary caregiving responsibilities for youth regardless of the precise relational positionality of the provider.4. Funding for this study was provided by grants from The Heinz Endowments (grant E9539).5. All study participant and corresponding school and neighborhood names are pseudonyms.Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the The Heinz Endowments (as administered by the Crossroads Foundation) [E9539].","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135929854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}