Journal Volume 2, Number 2 -- December, 2011
Featured stories in this edition of the Journal include:
- Book Review: A Wider, Wilder View of Program Evaluation
- Reviewed by Sarah Rankin, Dec 12, 2011
- Evaluation guru Michael Quinn Patton gives evaluators permission to break out of some of the field’s traditional boxes to find answers for programs that are multifaceted and constantly evolving.
- Complex Solutions for a Complicated World -- Letter from the Publisher
- by Joel Bookman, Dec 12, 2011
- Because neighborhoods, comprehensive community development and the questions that practitioners struggle with are so complex, the Institute sponsors Research Roundtables, seminars and this Journal.
- Designing for Healthy Communities: Active Living and Comprehensive Community Development
- by Xuemei Zhu and James F. Sallis, Dec 12, 2011
- This paper from Active Living Research offers a summary of empirical evidence that can be used by community developers to add a public health component to their work.
- Gardens for Great, Green Communities
- by Julia Prange, Dec 12, 2011
- This article from the LISC Green Development Center outlines the opportunities that urban gardening offers, with a special focus on examples of job-training and employment programs.
- Institute Journal, Volume 2, Number 2: December 2011
- By Carl Vogel, Journal editor, Dec 12, 2011
- The third issue of the Journal of the Institute for Comprehensive Community Development features articles that explore how community development can have the best impact in a complex world.
- Intergenerational Leadership
- by Gordon Chin, Dec 12, 2011
- What a neighborhood and the wider community offer to a family—how it protects, nurtures and supports that family—can mean a great deal for how well everyone in the family does.
- Research Round Up: Aligning Schools into the Neighborhood
- Reviewed by Eileen Figel, Dec 12, 2011
- A new report from the Center for Cities and Schools at the University of California-Berkeley examines strategies to link and integrate community improvement and school improvement efforts.
- Research Round Up: Community Leadership as a Complex Job
- Reviewed by Anne Kubisch, Dec 12, 2011
- Two Australian researchers attempt to bridge the divide between complexity theory and practice for community development in a paper on social capital and how it is mobilized.
- Research Round Up: Taking Lessons from Medicine
- Reviewed by Richard Mertens, Dec 12, 2011
- Two researchers argue that violence prevention efforts could become more effective if there were more research into violence prevention and greater effort to apply that research.
- State of Practice in Designing for Healthy Communities
- by Xuemei Zhu and James F. Sallis, Dec 12, 2011
- Previous research has identified numerous environment and policy changes likely to be effective in promoting active living and healthy eating. This piece lists key existing programs and projects.
- The Promise Neighborhoods Initiative: Improving Developmental Outcomes Through Comprehensive Interventions
- Anthony Biglan, Christine Cody, William Aldridge II, Alexis Dabroski and Jean Kjellstrand, Dec 12, 2011
- This paper offers an introduction to the concept of evidence-based interventions and how Promise Neighborhoods and similar programs can utilize multiple, overlapping interventions.
- Up for Discussion -- Regionalism and Affordable Housing
- with Edward G. Goetz and Myron Orfield, Dec 12, 2011
- To discuss one aspect of regional thinking—housing policy—we asked for the views of Edward Goetz and Myron Orfield, both long-time proponents of affordable housing.
- What Comes Next: Opportunity and Risk for Comprehensive Community Development
- A Q&A with Xavier de Souza Briggs, Dec 12, 2011
- After a stint at OMB, Xavier de Souza Briggs talks candidly about why we should widen our conception of how place-based programs work, how to think about measuring success, and more.
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