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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"community programs"”.
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Federal Aid and State Decisions: The Case of Community Programs for The Mentally And/or Developmentally Disabled (Financing, Grants, Mental Health)
… of services toward the provision of services in community settings. Between 1965 and 1980, fourteen federal categorical grant programs provided more than five billion dollars to implement this policy. This study examines the impacts of these federal categorical grants by testing whether the …
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Prevention of childhood drowning: A review of current community interventions and their effect on recreational drowning mortality in children
… laws that require secured pools and beaches; community programs that provide lifeguard surveillance, first responder training, and EMS services; and community education to ensure parents know the proper means for supervising children that are near water. Moreover, community programs can teach …
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Redesigning the United States Department of Education for localized ideation through user-centric research and organizational design
… school facilities, standardized tests, community programs, and other factors that affect educational outcomes. While the federal Department of Education provides quantitative data collection and publishing, student loan programs, anti-discrimination mandates, and other initiatives vital …
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Engaging young people in democracy
… on local issues. The effectiveness of such community programs on long-term civic engagement is not well documented, however. This paper presents preliminary research about the effectiveness of one community participation program, the Southern Nevada Water Authority's Youth Advisory Council. …
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Evaluating Seeding Galveston: Assessing Food Security and Health-Related Outcomes
… evaluation is a crucial step in the success of community-based programs, as it allows stakeholders and community organizations to determine the success of our efforts and make changes where necessary to improve our community programs. Evaluations are fluid and cannot just be done once, thus the …
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Improving FQHCs and Home Infusion Therapy through Care3, A Digital Health Tool
… identified many challenges in providing home and community-based services. Challenges include all the following: increased patient volume, risks, communication gaps, care complexities, and education barriers. These problems can contribute to poor health outcomes. This project interviewed home …
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Why a Healthy Diet is Important for Women's Health
… design, data were collected from 50 women at a community health center and analyzed using SPSS to generate descriptive statistics and explore patterns through chi-square and regression analyses. Findings revealed that most participants had moderate to low fruit and vegetable intake, and fewer …
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A national set of competencies for paraprofessionals in residential college or living/learning programs
… for the paraprofessional position (R.A., Community Assistant, etc.) in residential college or living/learning programs. The researcher developed the model through a two-stage process. In the first stage, the critical incident technique was applied utilizing the experiences of …
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WASH plus infrascaping
… Infrascaping, my thesis proposes to create a community oriented system through landscaping that focuses on collecting water, cleaning it, and then using it to operate the showers, sinks and toilets through a grey water re-use system. With this approach my thesis aims to represent a model for a …
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No More Baby Steps: Preventing Unintended Pregnancies of Los Angles Minorities and Adolescents
… program evaluation through electronic surveys. Community programs that strengthen patient knowledge of contraceptives and proper use should be implemented. Additionally, policy reform should focus on the availability of contraceptive use instructions and sexual health outreach in college …
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Resilience and Protective Factors in Older Adults
… ages 62 and higher were recruited from senior community programs and personal contacts. Four self-report questionnaires were completed by the participants in this exploratory, cross-sectional, quantitative design. SPSS was used for a descriptive and multivariate analyses to investigate the …
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The Impact of Curricular Learning Communities on Furthering the Engagement and Persistence Of Academically Underprepared Students at Community Colleges
… communities on academically underprepared community college students to determine if participation in such programs significantly contributed to student persistence from year one to year two. The conceptual framework that informed this study was Tinto's (1993) longitudinal model of student …
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EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN GALVESTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT HIGHSCHOOLERS
… the District, the University and interested community programs to develop new student outreach programs or revise existing ones. Adolescents’ self-reported responses were used to define the study outcome, teenage pregnancy, and study exposures including depression status, suicidal ideation …
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How Do Refugees Experience a “Sense Of Place” in a Community Garden? Exploring an Intervention to Mitigate the Consequences of Displacement
… service providers understand the neces-sity for community-based interventions to improve the resettlement process for refugees, using a place attachment model. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with Karen and Chin Burmese (Myanmar) adult refugees who participated in a community garden …
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From the arsenal of democracy to 0% financing: Promotional communication at General Motors
… this approach by safetywashing GM’s SUVs through community programs. Thus, despite widely reported safety problems, many Americans believed SUVs to be safe. Likewise, GM used greenwashing PR and CSR to portray the corporation as environmentally conscious while lobbying against Corporate Average …
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Neoliberalism in Higher Education?: A Case Study of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
… policies often do not realize that the programs and policies that they are implementing are neoliberal. Furthermore, Harvey argues that another aspect of neoliberalism is its propensity to exclude or ignore society. This thesis explores the relationship between neoliberal ideology and …
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A descriptive study of tasks performed by exemplary secondary principals which facilitate effective instructional practices
… teachers in developing rules, to participate in community programs, to counsel teachers regarding observable strengths and weaknesses, to participate in the promotion of teachers who demonstrate effective instructional practices, and to balance expenditures for instructional materials.
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Community Connections and Sense of Community among Older Adults
… Even though they may be frequent consumers of community programs and services, their role as contributors to community well-being should not be overlooked. Sense of community is a core dimension of well-being because the connections associated with sense of community are important for everyday …
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CREATING COMPREHENSIVE WRAP-AROUND SERVICES FOR THE HOMELESS COMMUNITY: EXPLORING NETWORK ACTIVITY AMONG SHELTERS AND SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE SOUTH-SIDE OF CHICAGO
<p>We may not all agree that the homeless community is increasing and that their essential needs to survive such as food, healthcare and housing are quality of life rights for everyone. We must adopt the compassion of the medical industry and understand the importance of how community programs and …
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Teaching pronunciation as a volunteer ESL tutor: Determining needs and designing support
… of trained professionals and affordable programs as increasing numbers of immigrants and other international visitors to the U.S. seek out opportunities to improve their English language skills (Henrichson, 2010). To help meet this need, many community programs—often staffed entirely by …
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