Towards Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration and Development

Korazim-Kőrösy, Yossi; Mizrahi, Terry; Katz, Chana; Karmon, Amnon; Garcia, Martha Lucia; Smith, Marcia Bayne

doi:10.1300/j125v15n01_02

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“…Community-based development work in the United States and internationally has always relied on the input of various disciplines from both academic and applied social and health sciences (Campfens, 1997;Korazim et al, 2007;Rubin & Rubin, 2001;Turok & Taylor, 2006). Multiple types of expertise are usually required to create community change that will improve the quality of life in marginalized communities.…”

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“…Preparing professionals to work with larger systems will require new and integrated knowledge and competencies that emphasize both the challenges and opportunities in building community-based collaborations (Korazim-Korosy et al, 2007;Lawson et al, 2004). Further, academics will need to interact with community practitioners in order to assure that theory and practice are interconnected and to avoid the perception, if not the reality, of a gap between the two.…”

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Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration: Perspectives of Community Practitioners on Successful Strategies

Bayne-Smith

Mizrahi

Garcia

2008

Journal of Community Practice

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Six focus groups were convened to collect data on successful interdisciplinary community collaboration (ICC) strategies. Participants came from a variety of disciplines but shared the common identification of having worked in similar communities. Participant assignment to one of six groups was designed to insure diversity by gender and race or ethnicity. They discussed four questions received in advance. Prior consented taperecorded sessions were transcribed and reviewed by group facilitators using a process of member checking. Data analysis utilized the qualitative methodology known as grounded theory. Results indicate that organizers must have (1) a knowledge base of strategic planning, management, and administration, (2) an intra-or interpersonal skills set, and (3) well-defined values and attributes. The Practice implications are that further research is needed to more fully explore the complexity of ICC work.

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Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration: Perspectives of Community Practitioners on Successful Strategies

Bayne-Smith

Mizrahi

Garcia

2008

Journal of Community Practice

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“…Coalition building commonly involves organizations from different disciplines (Korazim-Kõrösy et al, 2007) and/or multiple sectors (Selsky & Parker, 2005). The term coalition is often used interchangeably in practice and research with other terms, such as collaboration, collaborative (Bayne-Smith, Mizrahi, and Garcia, 2008), or interorganizational partnerships (Alter, 2009).…”

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Interorganizational Partnerships as a Strategy for Lobbying: Nonprofit Administrators’ Perspectives on Collaborating for Systems-Level Change

Ruggiano

Taliaferro

Shtompel

2013

Journal of Community Practice

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Participation in coalitions has been identified as a policy advocacy behavior for nonprofit organizations, although few studies have examined nonprofit leaders' perceptions of coalition building as a strategy for lobbying. This study conducted focus groups and in-person interviews with nonprofit administrators to explore how interorganizational collaboration is utilized to address their organizations' policy advocacy goals. The findings indicate that nonprofit administrators view their participation in coalitions as a means of achieving several policy advocacy goals, including increasing their capacity to lobby and protecting them from exposure as lobbyists. Implications for practice and research are provided.

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“…They, like the academics who were a part of the authors' earlier research, concentrated on the commonalities and the competencies needed for community-based problem-solving generated from and by "the community;" in that sense they had moved to "transdiciplinary" thinking process that seeks to minimize the status and role of professional and differences in professional education (Korazim-Korosy et al, 2007;Moxley, 2008).…”

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“…Social workers are actively engaging in the practice of interdisciplinary community collaboration (ICC) with the goal of bringing diverse groups together to improve the conditions of communities, enhance the quality of life of population groups, especially those disadvantaged and marginalized, and strengthen community-based organizations and civic life (Korazim-Korosy, Mizrahi, Katz, Karmon, Garcia & Bayne-Smith 2007). The concept of community includes both geographic and functional communities.…”

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Education for Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration and Development: The Components of a Core Curriculum by Community Practitioners

Garcia

Mizrahi

Bayne-Smith

2010

Journal of Teaching in Social Work

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Social workers are actively engaging in the practice of interdisciplinary community collaboration (ICC) with the goal of bringing diverse groups together to improve the conditions of communities and enhance the quality of life of population groups. Yet, collaborations are challenging and require great skill and commitment. The pedagogy and the content of curricula have become a more prominent part of teaching to macro practice students and practitioners the art of effectively convening and moving collaborative efforts forward. This article adds to the literature on the content and methods of teaching students and novice practitioners the competencies embedded in ICC. It provides empirical data from six focus groups of experienced community practitioners (social workers and others) in New York City who identified components of a core curriculum for this work. Eight months later, these 33 community practitioners were asked to reprioritize the topics and concepts that they had collectively identified at the earlier time. Skills such as the ability to share power, manage differences, include the constituency and diplomacy are among those discussed. Core curriculum themes, the pedagogy and process, and the attributes 176 M. L. Garcia et al. and values necessary for training an ICC practitioner are presented.

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Towards Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration and Development

Cited by 20 publications

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Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration: Perspectives of Community Practitioners on Successful Strategies

Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration: Perspectives of Community Practitioners on Successful Strategies

Interorganizational Partnerships as a Strategy for Lobbying: Nonprofit Administrators’ Perspectives on Collaborating for Systems-Level Change

Education for Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration and Development: The Components of a Core Curriculum by Community Practitioners

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