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Showing 1 to 20 of 199 for “"community support"”.
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Integrative Neighborhood Design: Enhancing Community Support for Aging Adults
… neighborhoods can be retrofitted to better support aging in place through community-oriented design. As the aging population grows, many older adults express a desire to remain in their homes and communities; however, most suburban environments are not equipped to meet their social, …
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Public Relations and Community Support: Assessing Fortune 500 Web Sites
… examined presence of 47 public relations community support variables on a systematic random sample of 166 Fortune 500 corporate web pages. Three hypotheses and two research questions guided the analysis. Hypotheses predicted (1) the increased implementation of community support gateway …
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Socio-Technical Journeys: Utilizing Digital Narratives for Management and Community Support
… particularly major life transitions, within supportive online spaces, position these journeys as inevitably socio-technical. Emotional well-being is vital for individuals navigating these emotional rollercoasters, as it helps them maintain resilience and informs their decision-making. This …
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Yo Aquí y Vos Allá: Community, Support, and Well-Being Among Immigrants from Central America
… (Latine/x Critical Race theory), and social support theories, this three-paper dissertation will first, describe the association between social network density and mental health outcomes of Central American immigrants. Second, this study will utilize social network analysis and personal …
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Understanding Community Support Towards Three Marine Protected Areas in the Visayas Region of the Philippines
Community support towards Natural Resource Management (NRM) strategies is thought to be crucial for their success and sustainability. This study considers the case of community based Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Philippines where, despite their proliferation many are failing to achieve …
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Community Support for Visual Arts Programs: Artist-in-Residence in a K-6 Elementary School
… parent organization fund raising, grants, community arts education advocate associations and museum outreach. This paper examines a community effort to support the arts in a local public school with the combined effort of a pilot outreach program and a parent run foundation.</p>
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Social and community support among nonmetropolitan gender and sexual minority youth: a mixed methods study
… have examined the role of communities, GSM community centers, and social supports in increasing or reducing risk among GSM youth living in varying community sizes. Additionally, although empirical evidence exists in support of PYD, this theory has rarely been used with GSM youth. The purpose …
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The periphery as the centre: trajectories of responsibility and community support in contemporary Maputo, Mozambique
… looking at everyday modes of assistance at the community level would challenge scholars to re-think the ways in which place matters in development. Analysing qualitative data gathered through interviews and focus groups in two neighbourhoods in Maputo, Mozambique, this study is ultimately an …
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Exploring low income working mother's perceptions of community support for exclusive breastfeeding after returning to work
… low income working mother's perceptions of community support for exclusive breastfeeding after returning to work. The results from 12 indepth semi-structured interviews conducted with low income mothers, working full-time in a clothing factory located in the Cape Flats area, were analysed …
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The Experience of LDS Women Receiving Community Support and Caring for Themselves in the Stages of Divorce
This qualitative, phenomenological study examined community support and caring for oneself as Latter-day Saint (LDS) women navigated the stages of divorce. Six divorced LDS women participated in semi-structured interviews. Data was analyzed through Creswell's modified version of Moustakas' …
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Fostering community support for mega events: a narrative inquiry of stories and experiences in the context of Cape Town, South Africa.
… sought to explore, understand and interpret community support for mega events in Cape Town, South Africa. Mega events have become popular because of their universal appeal, grandiose nature and capacity to engender lasting legacies that offer the host community an opportunity to unite in …
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Perceptions of Policing: An Investigation into Modern Community Policing Responses through the Management, Administration & Development of the Police Community Support Officer in Leicester
… development and changing management of community policing by reflecting the impact of complexity on the work and role of modern police process, as particularly exhibited in the function and role of the Police Community Support Officer (PCSO). The research, which is central to the review, …
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Psychosocial factors and mental health of Muslims living in the United States
… resources (i.e., coping strategies, religious community support) and depressive symptoms. Hypotheses regarding both the relationships among the variables, as well as the mediating role psychosocial resources play in the relationship between perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms were …
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Using the job demands-resources model to understand burnout in police officers in the UK and the US
… (N=356) and the United States (N=118). I found support for the general JD-R model of burnout, where high demands and few resources correlate with more burnout. I also looked at the patterns of demands and resources that significantly predicted burnout for each sample separately, and found that …
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High-end ecotourism and rural communities in southern Africa : a socio-economic analysis.
… land, both conservation and ecotourism will need community support and goodwill. Such rural communities adjacent to protected areas have traditionally enjoyed consumptive use of local resources. Formally set-aside protected areas may help conserve biodiversity, but often impose costs on rural …
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The Addisonians: The Experiences of Graduates of the Classes of 1963-70 of Lucy Addison High School, An All-Black High School in Roanoke, Virginia
… The secondary purpose was to determine if the supports found in the research literature about all-Black high schools prior to desegregation were present in the Lucy Addison students' experiences during the years between desegregation and integration. The supports are (a) the importance of a …
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Bodily Autonomy and Stress Management in Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Populations Through Body Modification in Alabama
… system of beliefs around gender identity. Community support in fictive kinships and GAHC acts as a stress mitigator that buffers the effects of transphobia. Due to the power of community support, participants describe having the autonomy to express their genders comfortably, as well as work …
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An Investigation of Forced Migrant Fathers’ Experiences, and Interventions to Support their Maternity Journey in the UK
… barriers ranked in the NGT exercise: lack of community support centres to support migrant fathers’ UK maternity journey, fear of being charged and financial burden as breadwinner and lack of access to knowledge about the maternity process in the UK. Feasibility of community support centres, …
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Community Ecosystem Services Values Support Conservation and Sustainable Landscape Development: Perspectives From Four University of California Campuses
… extinction of experience, all of which require community support to be successful. Because comparative assessments are relatively rare, however, it is difficult to say which options are most supported. We addresses this knowledge gap using human subject surveys and multi-criteria decision …
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