Brownfield restoration and remediation is a growing concern across the United States. Brownfields are vacant or abandoned properties with real or perceived contamination. Successfully restoring these properties requires strong stakeholder collaboration, including the local community. The purpose of this study was to explore the complexities of creating a community garden on a residential brownfield site located in a low-income, high-minority neighborhood and to gain a better understanding of how a community based project develops and impacts individuals from the community. Specifically, the study investigated who chose to participate in the project, what motivated individuals to become involved and remain committed, and how individual's understanding of the project's risks and plans changed throughout his/her involvement. The case study followed 17 participants through the first year of the Emerson Street Garden, a brownfield restoration project in the King Neighborhood of northeast Portland, Oregon. Findings showed that individuals were attracted to different styles of outreach materials based on their own personality and preferences. The desire to improve the community was an important motivation for all the participants but personal motivation was not connected to knowledge retention. While the Emerson Working Group was successful at distributing knowledge to all its members, individual's flexibility to new ideas was critical for continued involvement in the working group. In conclusion, the study found that a "one-size-fits-all" method for engaging community members in urban restoration and renewal projects does not exist; however, there are best practices that can be applied to most situations. Implications for practice and further research are discussed.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Adult Education)) -- University of Limpopo, 2013 / The sexual abuse of children seems to be a worldwide community-based problem. In any attempts to address this problem, community participation is crucial. The study, which was conducted in the Vhembe district of the Limpopo province of South Africa, focused on the factors that contribute to child sexual abuse in this area. The aims of the study were to encourage community participation in the reduction of child sexual abuse and to educate the community on child sexual abuse in order to improve the quality of life of the community members. The study adopted a participatory action research approach utilising a qualitative technique to collect the data. Interviews were conducted with educators, nurses, social workers, traditional leaders, church leaders, members of the civic organisation, policing staff and the Victim Empowerment Group. A data matrix was used to analyse the data. Community education was found to be the most successful way of addressing child sexual abuse. According to the responses of all target groups, community participation is imperative to reduce the incidence of child sexual abuse. All target groups seemed to be aware of the problem and ready to work together to reduce the prevalence of child sexual abuse. It is recommended that community education programmes be organised by each particular community to address any community-based problems such as child sexual abuse. Some of the recommendations in this study could help the community to become involved in the fight against child sexual abuse. The research indicated that educational programmes bring about greater change in the behaviour and beliefs of a community if the programmes allow the participants to articulate and examine their personal values and beliefs concerning the sexual abuse of children. In the study, participants themselves demonstrated strategies to encourage community members to become involved in the reduction of child sexual abuse. The participants developed a positive attitude towards the reduction of child sexual abuse. They appeared to believe in community education programmes and were committed and willing to support such initiatives. By the end of the project, participants were empowered to fight against child sexual abuse

<p>Riksdagen beslutade år 2000 om en nationell handlingsplan för att förbättra tillgängligheten för persoaner med funktionsnedsättning. Hindren skall vara åtgärdade före 2010.</p><p>Syfte. Att studera hur tillgänglighet i offentlig miljö beskrivs i vetenskapliga artiklar och hur det påverkar delaktigheten i socila aktiviteter för personaer med fysisk funktionsnedsättning.</p><p>Metod. Systematisk litteraturstudie av artiklar sökta i fyra olika databaser.</p><p>Resultat. Elva artiklar publicerade 2002-2009 studerades och resultatet visar att tillgänglighet i offentlig miljö har stor betydelse för delaktighet i sociala aktiviteter men också graden av funktionsnedsättning, ålder samt upplevelse av hinder är faktorer som är avgörande.</p><p>Konklusion. Resultatet styrker vikten av att följa den nationella handlingsplanen från 2000 för att öka möjligheten för personer med funktionsnedsättning att leva enligt sina egna önskemål och inte vara tvingade att acceptera hinder i omgivningen.</p> / <p>The Swedish Parliament decided in 2000 on a national plan to improve the accessibility to people with disability. Environmental barriers should be removed prior to 2010.</p><p>Purpose. To investigate how accessibility to public environments is described in scientific articles and how it influences participation in social activities for persons with physical functional limitations.</p><p>Method. Review of scientific articles found in four different databases.</p><p>Results. Eleven scientific articles published 2002-2009 were studied and the result showed that accessibility to public environments is found to be of great importance for participation in social activities. For persons with physical functional limitations, level of disability, age and experience of environmental barrioers are utmost importance.</p><p>Conclusion. The result strengthen the necessity of following the national plan from 2000 and thereby increase the possibilities for persons with disability to live according to their own wishes and not be forced to accept environmental barriers.</p>

This research aims to understand the perception of civil society both organized and unorganized, regarding the problem of floods and their management. This is based on a case study of the following municipalities; Calonge, Torroella de Montgrí and Tossa de Mar. This is achieved through a mixed methodology that combines qualitative and quantitative aspects and applies three complementary techniques of data collection: a) surveys of residents in flood-prone areas; b) interviews with mayors and technical environments within each of the respective municipalities of the study, and c) Focus Groups sessions with civil society representatives previously defined. The main results show that the flood experience is a determinant to know social perception of flood risk and structural measures have great support by local authorities and residents of areas prone to flooding. However, organized civil society prefers to enhance non-structural measures for the protection and management of flood risk. / La presente investigación pretende dar a conocer la percepción de la sociedad civil organizada y no organizada respecto a las inundaciones y su gestión, a partir de un caso de estudio configurado por los municipios de Calonge, Torroella de Montgrí y Tossa de Mar. Para ello se desarrolla una metodología mixta que combina aspectos cualitativos y cuantitativos y se aplican tres técnicas complementarias de recolección de datos: a) encuestas a los residentes de las zonas expuestas a las inundaciones; b) entrevistas a los alcaldes y técnicos de medio ambiente de cada uno de los respectivos municipios de estudio; y c) sesiones de Focus Groups con representantes de la sociedad civil previamente definidos. Los principales resultados establecen que la experiencia con las inundaciones es determinante en la percepción de este riesgo y que las medidas estructurales presentan un gran soporte tanto por parte de las autoridades locales como de los residentes de las zonas expuestas a las inundaciones. Sin embargo, la sociedad civil organizada prefiere potenciar las medidas no estructurales destinadas a la protección y convivencia con el riesgo de inundación.

Riksdagen beslutade år 2000 om en nationell handlingsplan för att förbättra tillgängligheten för persoaner med funktionsnedsättning. Hindren skall vara åtgärdade före 2010. Syfte. Att studera hur tillgänglighet i offentlig miljö beskrivs i vetenskapliga artiklar och hur det påverkar delaktigheten i socila aktiviteter för personaer med fysisk funktionsnedsättning. Metod. Systematisk litteraturstudie av artiklar sökta i fyra olika databaser. Resultat. Elva artiklar publicerade 2002-2009 studerades och resultatet visar att tillgänglighet i offentlig miljö har stor betydelse för delaktighet i sociala aktiviteter men också graden av funktionsnedsättning, ålder samt upplevelse av hinder är faktorer som är avgörande. Konklusion. Resultatet styrker vikten av att följa den nationella handlingsplanen från 2000 för att öka möjligheten för personer med funktionsnedsättning att leva enligt sina egna önskemål och inte vara tvingade att acceptera hinder i omgivningen. / The Swedish Parliament decided in 2000 on a national plan to improve the accessibility to people with disability. Environmental barriers should be removed prior to 2010. Purpose. To investigate how accessibility to public environments is described in scientific articles and how it influences participation in social activities for persons with physical functional limitations. Method. Review of scientific articles found in four different databases. Results. Eleven scientific articles published 2002-2009 were studied and the result showed that accessibility to public environments is found to be of great importance for participation in social activities. For persons with physical functional limitations, level of disability, age and experience of environmental barrioers are utmost importance. Conclusion. The result strengthen the necessity of following the national plan from 2000 and thereby increase the possibilities for persons with disability to live according to their own wishes and not be forced to accept environmental barriers.

Magistro darbe tiriamas žinių apie pozityvų požiūrį į gyvenimą sklaidos žinių vadybos aspektu įgyvendinimas realizuojant klubo, kaip žinių sklaidos formą. Darbe pateikiamas žinių poveikio kriziniuose procesuose jų siekimo pagrindo identifikavimas, žinių vadybos konceptas, pozityvaus požiūrio į gyvenimą samprata. Empirinis tyrimas atspindi klubo narių įsigalinimo proceso analizę, atskleidžia klubo, kaip žinių sklaidos formos specifiką. Teorinės analizės rezultatai apima tris momentus: efektyviai žinių sklaidai būtinas nuolatinis dalyvavimas bei subalansuoto žinių vadybos proceso etapų išpildymo užtikrinimas, o disbalansinių situacijų sprendimui reikalingas žinojimas, sugebėjimas valdyti žinias. Empirinio tyrimo rezultatai atskleidžia grįžtamojo ryšio ir pasitikėjimo žinių vadybos procese svarbą. Taip pat tai, jog dažniausiai naudojama žinių sritis – šeima ir kitų įgalinimas geriausias per saviįgalinimą. / This master‘s final paper research’s the spread of knowledge about positive approach to life in knowledge management aspect realization putting into practice the spread of knowledge form of club. Work includes knowledge influence for crisis situation and knowledge aspiration base identification; knowledge management conception; comprehension of positive approach to life. Empiric analysis reflects the process of becoming able of members of club and reveals the specifics of knowledge spread form – club. The results of theoretical analysis include three moments: continual participation and balanced knowledge management process are necessary for effective spread of knowledge. Also knowing and ability to manage knowledge is necessary for dealing with any disbalance situations. The results of empirical analysis reveals the importance of reversible process and trust in knowledge management process, affirms the fact that the most usable knowledge area is family and the best way to make able others is thru making able yourself.

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In general, people with severe psychiatric disability living in sheltered or supported housing lead passive, solitary lives. Current rehabilitative approaches often neglect considering an agentic perspective of the residents in sheltered or supported housing. Furthermore, the outreach and societal contexts are often not considered. Thus, practitioners tend to overlook the potential in providing support and rehabilitation that is adapted to their individual, collective and changing needs. My approach was to develop a model for Everyday Life Rehabilitation (ELR), which has a potential to promote agency while targeting recovery, meaningful daily occupations, social participation, and person-driven goals. We employed two occupational therapists (OT) and offered an intervention with ELR in a medium-sized municipality in northernSwedenand evaluated this intervention from the perspectives of residents and community care workers (CCW), using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. This thesis comprises four studies that focus on a home and community context, late rehabilitation efforts, daily occupations, and client-centredness. The overall aim is to understand and evaluate the impact of recovery- and occupation-oriented interventions in a home context for people with severe psychiatric disability. The study settings are sheltered and supported housing facilities. The first study (n=6) explores the significance of home for occupational transformations. The analysis reveals how residential conditions facilitate rehabilitative interactions, generating occupational transformations such as increasing social competence and taking charge of daily occupations. The second study evaluates occupation- and health-related outcomes of the ELR-intervention for residents (n=17). Pre-, post-, and follow-up differences in tests scores on goal attainment, occupation, and health-related factors indicate that important progress is made. The third study explores residents’ (n=16) narratives about occupational transformations in the context of everyday life and life history. Narrative analysis discloses stories of ‘rediscovering agency’, referring to occupational and identity transformations. The fourth study illuminates community care workers’ (n=21) experiences of collaborating with residents and OTs, using ELR. The CCW’ view on residents, rehabilitation, and the own role, along with organisational conditions in the housing facility, seem to characterise different outlooks influencing the CCWs responsiveness or resistance to the intervention. In conclusion, rehabilitation in a supported housing context appears paradoxical due to tensions between opposing values such as authentic versus artificial, and independence versus dependence. However, if residents are engaged in challenging these tensions, they can function as ‘progressive tensions’ generating change. Considering the personal and social meaning of home also appears to be valuable. The intervention studies on ELR, demonstrate its value for participants and indicates that a recovery approach applying ELR would promote shared perspectives among residents, CCWs, and OTs, while facilitating ‘agent-supported rehabilitation’ and ‘out-of-housing strategies’. The thesis provides initial support for the use of ELR-interventions and proposes continued research. / Vardagslivets Rehabilitering (Everyday Life Rehabilitation)

Thesis (M.M.S.)--University of Waikato, 2007. / Title from PDF cover (viewed February 27, 2008) Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-192)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:23:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-10-23Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:50:54Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 santos_pl_me_mar.pdf: 1537330 bytes, checksum: bbd6d6814a90aaa50d841d382f02a7cc (MD5) / A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo refletir sobre a participação social exercida nos Conselhos Comunitários de Segurança (CONSEGs), entidades que buscam atuar no campo da Segurança Pública. Os objetivos compreendem os limites e possibilidades na relação dos representantes da sociedade civil e poder do Estado, através da participação dos atores sociais frente às questões relativas à segurança pública. Por meio, da pesquisa participante e das análises documentais produzidas nos Consegs observou-se, as tensões e intervenções no controle da criminalidade e a participação política dos componentes da entidade ao representar a população. Assim como, a configuração sóciopolitica em que essa representação aparece e a sua estruturação, enquanto meio, voltada as prioridades relativas a segurança. Verificou-se como se estabelecem as relações constituídas nos Consegs, e as buscas por legitimidade na relação dos atores sociais com os órgãos de segurança e a busca de implementação de políticas públicas na cidade de Marília. / The present research has as objective to reflect on the exerted social participation in the Communitarian Advice of Security (Consegs), entities that they search to act in the field of the Public Security. The objectives understand the limits and possibilities in the relation of the representatives of the civil society and to be able of the State, through the participation of the social actors front to the relative questions to the public security. By means of the participant research and of the produced documentary analyses in the Consegs it was observed, the tensions and interventions in the control of crime and the participation politics of the components of the entity when representing the population. As well as, the sóciopolitica configuration where this representation appears and its estruturação, while half, directed the relative priorities to the security. It was verified as if they establish the relations consisting in the Consegs, and the searches for legitimacy in the relation of the social actors with the agencies of security and the search of implementation of public politics in the city of Marília.