Rationale and Description of Implementation of Regional Collaborative Service Model for Enhancing Psychosocial Wellbeing of Children and Families—Oulu Collective Impact Study [PDF]
BackgroundThe psychosocial wellbeing of children and adolescents is an ongoing global concern. Despite positive outcomes of child- and family-focused programs, the fragmentation of services presents challenges.
Tuula Takalo +6 more
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Collective Impact Approaches to Promoting Community Health and Wellbeing in a Regional Township: Learnings for Integrated Care [PDF]
This Perspective Paper explores the challenges of implementing local initiatives guided by the tenets of the Collective Impact (CI) approach. As such, it draws implications of CI for integrated health and social care efforts to improve and sustain health
Alan Hayes +4 more
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Collective Impact on Prevention: Let's Talk About Children Service Model and Decrease in Referrals to Child Protection Services [PDF]
Background: Families with parental mental health issues often have numerous problems needing multilevel measures to address them. The “Let's Talk about Children Service Model (LT-SM)” is a community-based service approach aiming at collectively impacting
Mika Niemelä +11 more
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Developing a food system indicators database to facilitate local food systems assessments
Many food policy councils, food and agriculture-oriented groups, coalitions, organizations, funders, nonprofits, decision-makers, government departments, and other entities work to address local food system issues and inequities that negatively affect ...
Abiodun Atoloye +6 more
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Transformational family engagement fundamentally changes relationships between families and schools and interrupts deeply held beliefs about low-income, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, or immigrant families, each of which are rooted in systems of racism ...
Danielle M. Perry, Joanna Geller
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Participation, Collective Impact, and Your Instrumental Significance
There are many sorts of day-to-day choices that are such that, if enough people were to choose one way rather than another, serious harm could be avoided or reduced, and yet it does not seem that any one such choice will itself make a difference ...
Julia Nefsky
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Challenges to Operationalizing Sustainable Diets: Perspectives From Kenya and Vietnam
Despite the urgent need for comprehensive food systems strategies, the challenge lies in defining feasible, evidence-based intervention points. Too little is known about issues food systems decision-makers and other change agents are running up against ...
Lesli Hoey +14 more
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Provision of social support by mayors in times of crisis: a cross-sectional study among Dutch mayors
Background: During times of crisis, mayors may play an important role as public leaders and providers of social support to affected residents. However, empirical studies have not yet been conducted among the involved mayors about the support they provide
Wouter Jong +2 more
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As unprecedented child and family migration patterns continue, neighborhoods, hamlets, towns, cities, states/provinces, and entire nations are impacted. These impacts are especially profound when migrants’ first language is not the host nation’s dominant
Hal A. Lawson
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Background: Co-design is the latest buzzword in healthcare services and research and is ubiquitous in Australian funding grants and policy documents. There are no standards for what constitutes co-design and it is often confused with less collaborative ...
Kylie Gwynne +7 more
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