Organizational Empowerment in Community Mobilization to Address Youth Violence

Male Gender Role Strain as a Barrier to African American Men’s Physical Activity

“…The unique identifiers and observers’ notes were used to link each participant’s demographic data to his discussion comments. Our data organization process was similar to the methods used by Griffith and colleagues (Griffith, et al, 2008; Griffith, et al, 2007; Griffith, Allen, & Gunter, under review). Each focus group transcript was chunked into segments of text that represented distinct concepts that conveyed their original meanings apart from the context of the complete transcript.…”

An accidental outcome: Social capital and its implications for Landcare and the “status quo”

“…Empowerment has been promoted as an ideal goal for community development programs, (Rappaport, 1987) and much research has been conducted on the components of the construct and its development in community programs, see for example (Fawcett et al, 1995;Griffith et al, 2008;Kroeker, 1995;Laverack, 2001;Laverack and Wallerstein, 2001;Perkins, 1995;Perkins and Zimmerman, 1995;Rappaport, 1995Rappaport, , 2000Rich et al, 1995;Speer and Hughey, 1995;Zimmerman, 1995;Zimmerman and Rappaport, 1988). Much of this work has been concentrated within the public health domain, however it has been linked with Landcare by others .…”

A Critical Review of Trauma Interventions and Religion Among Youth Exposed to Community Violence

“…As this example shows, community-based research that is participatory offers specialized benefits: It can increase the feasibility of interventions, and it can maximize "buy-in" from community partners (Griffith et al, 2008). However, one caution in the use of local practitioners in evaluation and data collection activities is that these activities represent extra work for these staff.…”