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The Colorado Trust’s Healthy Communities Initiative: Results and Lessons for Comprehensive Community Initiatives
No full text· This article summarizes how 29 diverse communities throughout Colorado implemented the Colorado Healthy Communities Initiative (CHCI), which was conceived and funded by The Colorado Trust to engage community residents in the development of locally relevant strategies to improve community health.
· In line with the World Health Organization’s Healthy Cities model, CHCI emphasized (a) inclusive, representative planning; (b) a broad definition of “health”; (c) consensus decision making; and (d) capacity building among local stakeholder groups.
· Communities implemented an array of projects (on average, six per community) that extended well beyond traditional health promotion and disease prevention. The most common action projects focused on community problem solving, civic engagement, and youth development. Many of the grantees established projects or new institutions that had a long-term community impact.
· Key success factors for CHCI included (a) a wellspecified planning model, (b) a planning process facilitated by expert consultants, (c) a unifying “healthy community” vision developed at the beginning of the process by diverse stakeholders, (d) a willingness by stakeholders to work collaboratively to define “key performance areas” and then to implement “action projects” to achieve them, and (e) an appropriate level of funding for implementation ($50,000 per site per year).
· The outcomes and impacts of CHCI might have been improved by better anticipating the requirements for sustaining the energy and work initiated during the planning process.
· At the end of the initiative, CHCI provided the funders with a broader, deeper understanding of the requirements, opportunities, and realities associated with promoting “community health.
Center Points - Prof. Sharon Ross and Conner Good
No full textJonathan Nichols-Pethick talks with Prof. Sharon Ross and Conner Good from Columbia College about their work with Watercooler Journal, the interrelationship between production and criticism, and alternative avenues for undergraduate media research
The Role of Evidence in Establishing Trust in Repositories
No full textThis article arises from work by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Working Group examining mechanisms to roll out audit and certification services for digital repositories in the United Kingdom. Our attempt to develop a program for applying audit and certification processes and tools took as its starting point the RLG-NARA Audit Checklist for Certifying Digital Repositories. Our intention was to appraise critically the checklist and conceive a means of applying its mechanics within a diverse range of repository environments. We were struck by the realization that while a great deal of effort has been invested in determining the characteristics of a 'trusted digital repository', far less effort has concentrated on the ways in which the presence of the attributes can be demonstrated and their qualities measured. With this in mind we sought to explore the role of evidence within the certification process, and to identify examples of the types of evidence (e.g., documentary, observational, and testimonial) that might be desirable during the course of a repository audit.
, Ross Laird
No full textRoss Laird, PhD RCC is a clinical consultant focused on trauma, addictions, and social vulnerability. He is also a best-selling author, award-winning scholar and educator, and clinical supervisor for BC’s largest licensed non-profit program in addictions, trauma, and mental health. Dr. Laird focuses particularly on traumatized and marginalized client populations — those navigating homelessness, mental illness, and complex trauma — and provides professional development training for organizations that serve them: social service agencies, first responders, cultural groups, nonprofits, and educational institutions. He also works extensively with organizations in arts and culture and Indigenous communities to develop trauma-informed practices for cultural programming, museum exhibitions, and community initiatives
Book Review: Context: A Framework for its Influence on Evaluation Practice (New Directions for Evaluation, No. 135)
No full textBook review of: Context: A Framework for its Influence on Evaluation Practice (New Directions for Evaluation, No. 135), Debra J Rog, Jody L Fitzpatrick and Ross F Conner, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco and the American Evaluation Association, 2012, 111 pages, paperback, A39.99, 978-1-118-46328-4 (ISSN: 1097-6736 for printed subscription version
Gay, Ross : poetry reading; September 13th, 2019
No full textContents:
All tracks Poetry reading [complete]
Track 01 Introduction
Track 02 The Mark of Lights
Track 03 To My Best Friend’s Big Sister
Track 04 An Ode To Buttoning And Unbuttoning My Shirt
Track 05 The High-Five From Strangers Eccetera
Track 06 To the Fig Tree On 9th and Christian
Track 07 Cup Liking
Track 08 An Abundance of Public Toilets
Track 09 Opera Singer
Track 10 Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Track 11  Q&A
Digital Projects SAN: folder location for wav and mp3 files: J:\Elliston Working\9-13-2019 (Ross, Gay
Ross Gay, 36th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textRoss Gay is the author of Against Which and Bringing the Shovel Down. His work has appeared in several literary journals, including American Poetry Review, The Sun, and Ploughshares. He is an orchardist and kettlebell instructor. He teaches at Indiana University and in the Drew University low-residency MFA program
Author interview: Q and A with Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross, authors of Parenting for a Digital Future
No full textIn this author interview, we speak to Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross about their new book, Parenting for a Digital Future, which draws on interviews and a national survey with UK parents to explore how hopes and fears about digital technologies are shaping parenting today
Richard Ross: Juvenile-in-Justice
No full textBoston College Law School hosted Richard Ross, Distinguished Professor of Art, University of California at Santa Barbara, award-winning photographer and author of Juvenile-In-Justice. The event took place on March 24th in the Law School\u27s East Wing building.
The event, cosponsored by the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice, the Boston College Arts and Social Responsibility Project, and the Citizens for Juvenile Justice (CFJJ) was closely connected to the release of two important reports on detention reform in Massachusetts that same week by CFJJ (www.cfjj.org). CFJJ advocates for a fair and effective Juvenile justice system in Massachusetts and is playing a significant role in raising the age of juvenile jurisdiction and in the Supreme Judicial Court decisions on finding life without parole unconstitutional for juveniles in MA.
Winner of the 2012 Best News and Documentary Photography Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors for a selection published in Harper\u27s Magazine, the photographs in Juvenile in Justice open our eyes to the world of the incarceration of American youth. The nearly 150 images in this book were made over 5 years of visiting more than 1,000 youth confined in more than 200 juvenile detention institutions in 31 states. These riveting photographs, accompanied by the life stories that these young people in custody shared with Ross, give voice to imprisoned children from families that have no resources in communities that have no power
Tumbled smooth by the rapids: Rediscovering and reconnecting in the wake of turbulence
No full textRoss Laird, PhD RCC is a clinical consultant focused on trauma, addictions, and social vulnerability. He is also a best-selling author, award-winning scholar and educator, and clinical supervisor for BC’s largest licensed non-profit program in addictions, trauma, and mental health. Dr. Laird focuses particularly on traumatized and marginalized client populations — those navigating homelessness, mental illness, and complex trauma — and provides professional development training for organizations that serve them: social service agencies, first responders, cultural groups, nonprofits, and educational institutions. He also works extensively with organizations in arts and culture and Indigenous communities to develop trauma-informed practices for cultural programming, museum exhibitions, and community initiatives.presentationBetter Together Conferenc
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