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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Community Agency"”.
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From services to ideological formation: Building community agency in Palestine
… organizations (NGOs) can lead to progressive community change. While locally grounded in the socio-political context of Palestine, this research addresses broader questions concerning the role of organizational ideology in community and social changes specifically in the Middle East. This is …
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Maintaining Community On Hardship Island: A Case Study Of Demographic Change And Community Agency
This study was designed to address how a community survives in the context of sustained population loss in an international context. Crooked Island, located in The Bahamas, has experienced a steady population decline over the last several decades. This research focused on how family networks and …
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Supporting and maximizing communication between individuals with intellectual disabilities and health care providers
… identified as having ID and are supported by a community agency, five community agency support staff and four physicians who are specialists in supporting people who have ID. A qualitative content analysis approach facilitated the comparative exploration of key themes that each participant group …
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Community capacity building : a role for neighbourhood houses in community revitalization
… period of rapid change prompting concerns about community fragmentation. By building social cohesion and revitalizing civic participation, community development is viewed by many as a remedy to offset the weakening of community ties. This thesis explores how a community agency- based worker might …
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A case study in the treatment approaches and outcomes of adjustment disorder
… in the treatment of an adolescent female in a community agency. The client was diagnosed with adjustment disorder mixed with anxiety and depression. A psychosocial history of the client was presented emphasizing the psychosocial stressors that contributed to the adjustment disorder. A review of …
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The Entanglements of Canada's National Identity Building and Vietnamese Canadian Community Conflicts: Racial Capitalist Democracy and the Cold War Neoliberal Multicultural Subject
… this study asks: What are the conditions of community conflicts within the Vietnamese community and how are those conflicts related to the processes of Canadian national identity formation? The production and contestation of Vietnamese Canadian subjectivity in the making of Canadian national …
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Exploring the Effect of 1:1 Acceptance and Commitment Training Sessions on Staff Engagement in Committed Actions using Ecological Momentary Assessment
… and developmental disabilities (IDD) within community agencies. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training (ACT) focuses on helping people develop psychological flexibility to improve well-being. This study evaluated the impact of standard self-monitoring procedures (e.g., pen and paper), …
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Social Action by Youth: Creating a Sense of Community
… their social identity and address their community concerns by creating participant designed and participant-led community-building and social action projects. The researcher worked in partnership with a community agency in a socially disadvantaged area of Melbourne. An appreciative …
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By Community, with Community: Decolonial Recommendations for Collections Management Policies in Museums
… and practices. I focus on the impact of CMPs on community museums, and I conclude with recommendations for decolonial interventions, with the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago (FAHSC) serving as the central case study in developing these solutions. My critical analysis of …
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Centering Communities in Research and Technology Design
… large monopoly on data and information about community behavior, making contexts ranging from instrumented city neighborhoods to online platforms more legible than ever to private firms. Meanwhile, many communities lack the tools and methods they need to access, use, and make sense of their …
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An Investigation of Completion Status of a Cognitive Behavioral Intervention in a Population of Offenders on Probation
… who commit crimes under the supervision of a community agency for a specific period of time. These probation sentences are instituted for the purpose of reducing the cost to the state of incarcerating offenders while maintaining deterrence against new offenses. Since the goal of such agencies …
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State, law and community in the politics of housing in South Africa: 1990-2000
… the interaction between the state, courts, and community and civil society activism and mobilisation in the shaping of housing policy and its implementation, particularly the impact of the political transition and the resultant constitutional right to housing, which allowed the use of various …
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A socio-ecological systems approach to understanding development in a dynamic world : a case study of traditional agriculture in Pondoland, South Africa
… explored for one region, focusing on the AmaDiba community whose history of resisting imposed development is again being tested by contentious titanium mining proposed in nearby Xolobeni. A central finding is that while resisting imposed development in order to achieve a self-defined development …
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Counseling and Complementary Therapy: A National Survey of Counselors' Experiences
… and works in a private practice/self-employed or community agency setting as an outpatient counselor. Few respondents asked about or had clients volunteer use of complementary therapy. Anxiety and depression were the most common client concerns for which respondents recommended or referred for …
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Shared Lunch: An Ethnography of Food Sovereignty in Whaingaroa and Beyond
… More specifically it is an ethnography of a community of small-scale local food providers in Whaingaroa, a small coastal township in Aotearoa [New Zealand]. Through the lenses provided by perspectives of these food providers, the global corporate food system is critiqued. Through their …
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The [Re]Construction of a Learner Self: A Phenomenological Study with Youth and Young Adults Postinvolvement in Criminal Behaviour
… to personal change by voluntary involvement in a community agency program utilizing the portfolio learning process involving self-evaluation, introspection, analysis, and synthesis concurrently with life skills programming. Through the reflective process that is part of the portfolio learning …
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Socio-demographic and service provision characteristics associated with primary school attendance among the most vulnerable children in Tanzania
… the services provided by a faith-based community agency in Tanzania--the Pastoral Activities and Services for People with AIDS Dar-es-salaam Archdiocese (PASADA)--and the socio-demographic characteristics of the MVC and their guardians that predict the MVC’s days of primary school …