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Direct linkMiller, Jacque; Bruce, Ann; Bundy-Fazioli, Kimberly; Fruhauf, Christine A. – Journal of Extension, 2010
This article discusses the application of a community mobilization model through a case study of one community's response to address the needs of grandparents raising grandchildren. The community mobilization model presented is one that is replicable in addressing diverse community identified issues. Discussed is the building of the partnerships,…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Community Action, Grandchildren, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Peer reviewedBrown, Michael J. – Social Policy, 1993
The author's experiences in community service at a Quaker summer work camp 30 years ago taught him more about himself than about the community in which he helped. National service needs to include an organizing orientation that allows the strengths of both participants and community members to flourish. (SLD)
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Programs, Experience, Individual Development
Peer reviewedHorowitz, Claudia – Social Policy, 1993
A major problem with the proposed approaches to national service is that they may draw attention away from the real causes of and the feasible solutions to critical problems. Community action should involve young people in sustained, long-term empowering activities, not in one-time experiences or in work that does not challenge current power…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bureaucracy, Burnout, Community Action
Download full textle Roux, Braam – 1998
The Kuru Development Trust is a development support program that is owned and controlled by the communities in which the organization operates, the majority being San, or Bushmen, communities in the Kalahari region of Africa. Following a holistic approach to development, Kuru is involved in a wide range of activities, including income-generating…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Control, Community Development, Community Involvement
Join Together, Boston, MA. – 1994
Substance abuse treatment has been demonstrated to be effective in reducing not only substance use, but also the economic, health, and social costs associated with substance abuse. This document examines how health care reform can preserve and enhance community substance abuse services. The cost effectiveness of funding substance abuse prevention…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Community Action, Community Health Services, Community Organizations
Jones, G. Brian; And Others – 1983
This monograph was written to motivate and provide initial orientation for community leaders who are committed to seeing that comprehensive career guidance programs are established to serve the career planning and development needs of all citizens. The monograph is divided into two parts. Part A, containing four chapters, gives suggestions for how…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Development, Career Guidance, Career Planning
