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Facilitiating ‘Storied Relationships To A Place’: The Capacity Of The University To Lead Communities Towards Resilience Through Creative Arts Activities, Donna Brien, Lynda Hawryluk
Facilitiating ‘Storied Relationships To A Place’: The Capacity Of The University To Lead Communities Towards Resilience Through Creative Arts Activities, Donna Brien, Lynda Hawryluk
Dr Lynda Hawryluk
This article reports on the leadership aspects of the community creative arts based Resurfacing Stronger project, which was mounted in response to the recent flood crisis in Queensland, Australia, and involved the participation of a regional university. The project combines creative writing workshops and the publication of community writing with a study of contemporary community writing in Central Queensland. These various components are focused on gaining an understanding of the social dimensions of flood preparedness and response through creative writing as both action and product, as well as conducting a pilot study of contemporary community writing in the Central Queensland …
Cornering The Black Market: A Role For The Corner Store In Community Development, Seneca Vaught
Cornering The Black Market: A Role For The Corner Store In Community Development, Seneca Vaught
Seneca Vaught
This paper addresses these important themes by examining the impact of corner stores in two American cities: Buffalo, New York and Atlanta, Georgia. The paper illustrates how corner stores can effectively address unique demands in urban niche markets and the problems and possibilities these approaches present. The paper puts these developments into a historical, economic and spatial context that illustrates how neighborhood stores emerge and the dynamics of race, economics, and geography that they engage. Finally, the paper illustrates several models for effective small propriety grocers that specifically address issues of economic disparity and racial divisions, illustrating how these examples …
Exploring Outcomes Of Employing A Multiple Complex Needs Nurse In A Residential Aod Therapeutic Community Treatment Setting, Jo Lunn, Peter Kelly
Exploring Outcomes Of Employing A Multiple Complex Needs Nurse In A Residential Aod Therapeutic Community Treatment Setting, Jo Lunn, Peter Kelly
Peter Kelly
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Integrating School Of Community Efforts To Promote Health: Strategies, Policies, And Methods, Lloyd Kolbe, Donald Iverson
Integrating School Of Community Efforts To Promote Health: Strategies, Policies, And Methods, Lloyd Kolbe, Donald Iverson
Don C. Iverson
The purposeful integration of school and community efforts indeed may be the critical element in a formula to promote the health of school-aged children and youth. Obviously there are numerous strategies, policies, and methods to functionally integrate school and community activities. As concluded by the Director of the U.S. Office of Maternal and Child Health in a paper on "New Policies in School Health": What is required, then, are not new policies in school health, but, a reaffirmation and implementation of policies that have been with us for many years.
Does Family Practice At Residency Teaching Sites Reflect Community Practice?, Valerie Gilchrist, William Gillanders, Donald Iverson, Mark Krell, Everett Logue, Rebecca Miller, D Scheid, A Oprandi, D Weldy
Does Family Practice At Residency Teaching Sites Reflect Community Practice?, Valerie Gilchrist, William Gillanders, Donald Iverson, Mark Krell, Everett Logue, Rebecca Miller, D Scheid, A Oprandi, D Weldy
Don C. Iverson
Family medicine has aspired to train residents and conduct research in settings that closely resemble community practice. The purposre of this study was to compare the patient characteristics of the ambulatory teaching centers of a consortium of seven community-based university-affiliated familyu practice residency programs in northeast Ohio with the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) results for family physicians (FPs) and general practitioners (GPs). Ninety-eight faculty and resident physicians at the residency training site of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine collected data on all ambulatory patient visits (N = 1498) for one randomly chosen week between July 1, …