Building Healthy Northern Communities Through Strengthening Capacity
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https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v7i1.79Abstract
This study examines and evaluates the effects of one-time funding on capacity building of health and social welfare organizations in a remote and northern section of British Columbia Canada. The Province of British Columbia awarded a two million dollar grant (Canadian) to the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). Organizations applied for funds through a competitive process that was managed by the School of Social Work at UNBC. Twenty-five different community organizations and agencies received funding for a period of eighteen months. The organizations and agencies delivered a range of services and activities located in remote First Nations communities as well as the natural resource-based single industry towns of northern BC.
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Goodman, Robert, Speers, Marjorie, McLeroy, Kenneth, Fawcett, Stephen, Kegler, Michelle, Parker, Edith, Smith, Steven, Sterling, Terrie, and Wallerstein, Nina. “Identifying and Defining the Dimensions of Community Capacity to Provide a Basis for Measurement.” Health Education and Behavior 25.3 (1998): 258-278, 17. Print.
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Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse. “Capacity Building for Health Promotion: More Than Bricks and Mortar.” Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse. 2002. Web. 28 June. 2011.
Parker, Edith, Eng, Eugenia, Schulz, Amy, and Israel, Barbara. “Evaluating Community- Based Health Programs That Seek to Increase Community Capacity. New Directions for Evaluation 83 (1999): 37-54. Print.
Pender, Nola, Murdaugh, Carolyn, and Parsons, Mary Ann. Health Promotion in Nursing Practice. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. Print.
Poland, Blake. “Social Capital, Social Cohesion, Community Capacity, and Community Empowerment: Variations on a Theme?” Eds. Blake Poland, Lawrence Green, and Irving Rootman, Settings for Health Promotion: Linking Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000. 301-307. Print.
Poole, Dennis. “Building Community Capacity to Promote Social and Public Health: Challenges for Universities.” Health Social Work 22.3 (1997): 163-70. Print.
Popescu, Marciana, Sugawara, Carmen., Hernandez, Edwin, and Dewan, Smita. “Can Government Funding Strengthen the Third Sector? The Impact of a Capacity Building Program on Faith-Based and Community-Based Organizations. Revista de Asistentå Socialå 4 (2010): 83-101. Print.
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Putnam, Robert. “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital.” Journal of Democracy 6 (1995): 65–78. Print.
Rissel, Chris, Finnegan, John, and Bracht, Neil. “Evaluating Quality and Sustainability: Issues and Insights from the Minnesota Heart Health Program.” Health Promotion International 10 (1995): 199-207. Print.
Rogers, Todd, Howard-Pitney, Beth. and Lee, Hang. An Operational Definition of Local Community Capacity for Tobacco Prevention and Education. Stanford, CA: Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, 1995. Print.
Scerri, Andy and James, Paul. “Accounting for Sustainability: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Developing Indicators of Sustainability.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology 13.1 (2010): 41-53. Print.
Scott, Katherine. Funding Matters: The Impact of Canada’s New Funding Regime on Non- Profit and Voluntary Organizations. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Council on Social Development, 2003. Print.
Smith, Anne and Frank, Flo. The Community Development Handbook. Ottawa, ON: Human Resources Development Canada, 1999. Print.
Trocmé, Nino and Chamberland, Claire. “Re-Involving the Community: The Need for a Differential Response to Rising Child Welfare Caseloads in Canada.” Community Collaboration and Differential Response: Canadian and International Research and
Emerging Models of Practice. Eds. Nino Trocmé, Della Knoke, and Catherine Roy, Ottawa, ON: Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare, 2003. 45-56. Print.
US Agency for International Development. Sustainability of Development Programs: A Compendium of Donor Experience. Washington, DC: USAID, 1988. Print.
Wharf, Brian. (Ed.). Community Work Approaches to Child Welfare. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2002. Print.
White, Marilyn and Marsh, Emily. “Content Analysis: A Flexible Methodology.” Library Trends 55.1: 22-45. Print.
World Health Organization. Intersectoral Action for Health: The Role of Intersectoral Cooperation in National Strategies for Health for All. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1986. Print.
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Schmidt, G., Hemingway, D., & Bellefeuille, G. (2012). Building Healthy Northern Communities Through Strengthening Capacity. Journal of Comparative Social Work, 7(1), 36–50. https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v7i1.79
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