Community Readiness to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence in Bexar County, Texas

Brackley, Margaret; Davila, Yolanda R.; Thornton, Joe E.; Leal, Christina C.; Mudd, Gia; Shafer, Jane; Castillo, Patricia; Spears, William

doi:10.1177/1043659603014003009

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“…Since its inception in 1995 by Oetting et al, the model has been successfully used in a variety of international to local prevention and intervention programs dealing with drug and alcohol abuse Plested, Jumper-Thurman, Edwards, & Oetting, 1998), and reduction of HIV/AIDS (Kennedy et al, 2004). In addition, the model has been effectively used with social programs such as intimate partner violence prevention (Brackley et al, 2003;Han, 2003), breast cancer education (Lawsin, 2005), and needle exchange programs (Duynstee, 2001).…”

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confidence: 95%

The Community Readiness Model: Evaluating Local Smoke-Free Policy Development

York

Hahn

2007

Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice

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The purpose of this article is to review the literature on community readiness and assess the utility of the community readiness model (CRM) for understanding and affecting smoke-free policy development and implementation. The CRM evaluates a community's capacity for successfully developing and implementing prevention or treatment interventions. The purposes of evaluating a community's readiness are to: (a) identify the stage of readiness for policy change, and (b) determine stage-specific strategies to advance a community toward policy change.

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Section: Crmmentioning

confidence: 95%

The Community Readiness Model: Evaluating Local Smoke-Free Policy Development

York

Hahn

2007

Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice

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“…While other organizational change models exist (Lehman, Greener, & Simpson, 2002), this readiness model is a culturally sensitive and strengthbased tool (Jumper-Thurman, Edwards, Plested, & Oetting, 2003) that assesses a community's level of readiness and builds its capacity to successfully implement an initiative regardless of its current starting point. This model has been widely used both nationally and internationally for topics including: drug and alcohol prevention (Donnermeyer, Plested, Edwards, Oetting, & Littlethunder, 1997;Plested, Smitham, Jumper-Thurman, Oetting, & Edwards, 1999), cardiovascular disease (Peercy, Gray, Thurman, & Plested, 2010), intimate partner violence (Brackley et al, 2003;Han, 2003), smoking and tobacco use policy (York & Hahn, 2007), HIV/AIDS (Aboud, Huq, Larson, & Ottisova, 2010;McCoy, Malow, Edwards, Thurland, & Rosenberg, 2007;Plested, Edwards, & Thurman, 2007), breast cancer (Lawsin, Borrayo, Edwards, & Belloso, 2007), and head injury (Stallones, Gibbs-Long, Gabella, & Kakefuda, 2008). The model of community readiness provides a guided assessment and intervention process that leverages a community's strengths (e.g., culture, history, resources, level of problem awareness, readiness for change) to facilitate change (National Center for Community and Organizational Readiness, 2009;Plested, Jumper-Thurman, & Edwards, 2009).…”

Section: Community Readiness Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing Trauma-Informed Care Readiness in Behavioral Health: An Organizational Case Study

Farro

Clark

Eyles³

2011

Journal of Dual Diagnosis

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Objective: In this organizational case study the authors pilot a new protocol for evaluating and developing trauma-informed care in behavioral health settings. Methods: A mixed methods design was used to collect data with three instruments: the Adverse Childhood Experiences, the Consumer Perceptions of Care, and the Community Readiness Model key informant interview. Adults (N = 138) in a behavioral health residential treatment program provided a consumer perspective on trauma and integrated services. Providing the staff perspective, key informant interviews of staff (N = 7) were conducted and the overall protocol's utility was assessed. Results: Results indicate the protocol is an efficient, strength-based, and culturally sensitive assessment approach that provided valuable data about the agency's prevalence of consumer trauma, level of integrated trauma-informed services, and readiness to advance a trauma-informed organizational culture. The piloted protocol also fostered understanding of trauma-informed care principles among staff and improved awareness of how to enhance the level of trauma-informed services at their agency. Conclusions: In addition to providing assessment data, the protocol helped agency staff and leadership to fully engage and mobilize toward change. Further application of this tool and future research are discussed. (Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 7:228-241, 2011)

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“…Over the past decade, research has shown that communities differ in their levels of readiness and that communities with higher levels of readiness are much more successful in planning, implementing, and sustaining community initiatives (e.g., Brackley et al, 2003;Logan, Williams, & Leukefeld, 2001;Plested, Smithman, Jumper-Thurman, Oetting, & Edwards, 1999). While some readiness frameworks include elements of community capacity, such as local leadership, knowledge, and access to resources (Edwards, JumperThurman, Plested, Oetting, & Swanson, 2000;Oetting et al, 1995;Oetting, Jumper-Thurman, Plested, & Edwards, 2001;Plested et al, 1999), we have chosen to distinguish readiness from capacity by framing readiness as the overall belief in the possibility of change and capacity as the local ability to implement change.…”

Section: Community Readiness For Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Building an active citizenry: the role of neighborhood problems, readiness, and capacity for change

Foster-Fishman

Cantillon

Pierce

et al. 2007

American J of Comm Psychol

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Community-building initiatives strive to involve residents as the drivers of the change process, involving them in an array of activities including collective action efforts. Recent evaluations of many of these initiatives, however, suggest that developing the levels of resident involvement needed in such efforts is challenging. This study examines the neighborhood conditions that are related to whether and how much residents become involved in individual activism and collective action efforts. A random-digit-dial phone survey of 460 residents in 7 distressed neighborhoods suggested that while demographic variables were relatively unimportant, resident perceptions of neighborhood readiness (i.e., hope for the future and collective efficacy) and capacity for change (i.e., social ties and neighborhood leadership), and the level of neighborhood problems were strongly related to whether and how much residents were involved in individual and collective action efforts. Moreover, different elements of these neighborhood conditions were more or less important depending on the type and level of resident involvement. For example, while perceptions of neighborhood problems was the strongest predictor of whether an individual became involved at all, perceived strength of neighborhood leadership was the strongest predictor of an individual's level of activity. The implications of these findings for practitioners and scientists are discussed.

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Community Readiness to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence in Bexar County, Texas

Cited by 27 publications

References 14 publications

The Community Readiness Model: Evaluating Local Smoke-Free Policy Development

The Community Readiness Model: Evaluating Local Smoke-Free Policy Development

Assessing Trauma-Informed Care Readiness in Behavioral Health: An Organizational Case Study

Building an active citizenry: the role of neighborhood problems, readiness, and capacity for change

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