Reflection: Working Toward Peaceful, Healthy Communities

Reflection: Working Toward Peaceful, Healthy Communities

Family violence is a pervasive problem locally, nationally, and worldwide. Since 1990, staff from Saint Paul-Ramsey County (Minnesota) Public Health have worked with hundreds of community members and organizations in a unique partnership approach to preventing violence. The process of developing an...

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Main Author: Donald L Gault
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2016-03-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies
Subjects:
family violence prevention and intervention
community partnerships
community systems organizing
public health
primary prevention
appreciative inquiry
Online Access:https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/ijps/article/view/120
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family violence prevention and intervention
community partnerships
community systems organizing
public health
primary prevention
appreciative inquiry
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publishDate 2016-03-01
description Family violence is a pervasive problem locally, nationally, and worldwide. Since 1990, staff from Saint Paul-Ramsey County (Minnesota) Public Health have worked with hundreds of community members and organizations in a unique partnership approach to preventing violence. The process of developing and sustaining this unique partnership is described, as well impacts and outcomes from work developed and implemented over 25 years of sustained efforts. Implications for practice in community organizing and partnership, violence prevention, public health, and adherence to evidence- and research-based best practice models are discussed.
topic family violence prevention and intervention
community partnerships
community systems organizing
public health
primary prevention
appreciative inquiry
url https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/ijps/article/view/120
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