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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Community volunteers"”.
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The Personal Goals of Elder Community Volunteers
… agencies. Self-report assessment included volunteers' description of their personal goals and life satisfaction, as well as demographic information, health, life events and social desirability. In addition to the extent of each individual's volunteer participation, assessment of the …
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Posttraumatic growth amongst community volunteers in Indonesia following the Yogyakarta earthquake in 2006
… growth and posttraumatic stress amongst 506 volunteers who participated in helping procedures in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 2006 following a large-scale earthquake. Posttraumatic stress and growth were assessed six months and 12 months after the earthquake. Results showed that participants who …
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Understanding the multifaceted motivations and perceived impacts of community volunteers in youth justice programs
… diversion programs, restorative justice, and community involvement are crucial for helping youth in trouble with the law, particularly in minor cases. Community volunteers are understood to play a vital role in making these programs effective by helping young people feel heard, valued, and …
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Self-disclosure as a predictor of outcomes in cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxious youth
… while disclosing in anxious youth relative to community volunteers (N=74); and (d) disclosure and distress while disclosing in treatment responders and nonresponders (posttreatment), and community volunteers. Videotaped recordings of a four-minute Youth Speech Sample (YSS) in which the youth …
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Understanding the experiences of community hospice volunteers : a narrative analysis
It is suggested that hospice volunteers could play an important role in providing community support to dying people, but there are conflicting views as to whether volunteers should fulfil a professional role or one of friendship. The use of community volunteers is relatively uncommon in hospices in …
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Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) in Regina Saskatchewan, 1997-2011: Exploring the Perceptions of Key Stakeholders
… in need of support upon their release into the community. There are services such as restorative justice programs that exist which provide support for their successful reintegration. This study sought to understand the personal views of sex offenders and community volunteers concerning the …
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HIV/AIDS clients and their caregivers' perceptions of a community home-based care support programme in Botswana : a qualitative study
… clients' and caregivers' perceptions of the Community Home-Based Care support programme. The people involved in the community home-based care programme included nurses, family welfare educators (FWEs), social workers, community volunteers, and drivers. An exploratory qualitative design was …
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'Should I Have Done More?': Proxy Agency, Gathered Ethos, and Volunteer Responsibility in the Rhetoric of Health Resettlement for Refugees
… United States, refugees are often assisted by community volunteers in the process of resettlement, which frequently includes navigating the financial and social aspects of life in the US. However, the medical and health aspects of resettlement, and particularly how volunteers are involved in …
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Trabalho voluntário: relação entre motivação e cidadania em uma ONG ligada à educação na cidade de João Pessoa - PB
The presente study had as subjects the active volunteers in an NGO linked to education in the city of João Pessoa-PB. It operates more than two years in São Rafael community and it has forty community volunteers, whom support this study, which aimed to know what are the motivations that contribute …
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Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSAs): Their use and development for young people with learning disabilities who exhibit sexually harmful behaviour in England
… by establishing a supportive social network of community volunteers who assist the ex-offender (core member) with reintegration and his/her ongoing risk responsibilities. This thesis critically explores the application of this model to a small group of young/adolescent men with learning …
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Exploring the use of a commercial digital gaming technological initiative to enable social inclusion for community-dwelling older men with dementia in rural England.
… alongside fifteen care partners and five community volunteers. A thematic analysis was undertaken to interpret the data. The research demonstrated that whilst the men enjoyed rural life, aspects of rurality combined with their subjective experiences of dementia to hinder their social …
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Assessing the Procedures for Teaching Basic Skills in the Cleveland Public Elementary Schools
… and parent involvement.</p><p>Parent and community volunteers administered and collected both adult and student surveys. The instruments yielded data on 184 statements in the adult survey and 38 statements in the student survey about how the schools addressed basic skills. Multivariate …
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Women's Experiences Disclosing and Dealing With a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Close Relationships
… interviews were conducted with 42 women, all community volunteers, who had experienced sexual abuse in childhood. The most and least helpful responses encountered by the participants in 219 disclosure incidents were assessed---a total of 1,221 responses. The responses were recorded in …
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Promotora-Led Programs: How Do Program Planners Conceptualize the Role of Promotoras and Select and Train Promotoras to Deliver and Sustain Obesity-Related Health Programs Among Hispanic Women?
… and trained promotoras to deliver and sustain community health programs for Hispanic women. Twenty-four program planners of promotora-led obesity-related programs were interviewed and asked for their promotora training materials. Interviews were transcribed, organized using ATLAS.ti software, …
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Mobile information communication technology for crisis management : understanding user behavior, response and training
… practitioners, first responders, public safety volunteers, community volunteers, community citizens, and students over the age of 18. Each group encompasses diverse technological skill and usage levels. The web-based training application developed in the present study features plain language …
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The role of the sociocultural context in explaining variance in incidence of psychosis and higher rates of disorder in minorities.
… of psychosis, and a case-control arm utilising community volunteers. In the latter, I aimed to explain excess risk in ethnic and religious minorities using a theoretical sociocultural distance model I developed using literature from the social sciences. Here, I proposed that culturally distant …
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Impediments to Effective Enactment of Early Childhood Education Curriculum and Pedagogy in Tanzania: Issues and Experiences of Teachers in Urban and Rural Pre-Schools
… the government in partnership with parents, community, and non-governmental organisations agreed to support this education. However, anecdotes suggested that all activities to implement the policy were left to parents, communities, and non-governmental organisations. Hence, it was suspected …
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Collaborative public art making: The tapestry project
… art in Weatherford, Oklahoma, a small rural community in Western Oklahoma. Utilizing autoethnography and autobiography, I reexamine and reflect using the photos, video, and personal documentation journals, the challenges, successes, and the lessons learned in The Tapestry Project as well as …
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Extended Learning Time
… to meet the needs of the students. No longer are community schools housing local students and families; now with the Newark One, where students are being bused from near and far, principals face a challenge in how to better equip the teachers with the necessary tools to educate students. Policy …