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- Title: Comprehensive Community Initiatives: A Rural Perspective.
- Author : Social Work
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 209 KB
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Over the past 20 years, comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) have re-emerged as a development strategy for disadvantaged communities throughout the United States. The CCI strategy uses coalitions of public and private agencies, religious organizations, neighborhood groups, community leaders, and individuals in the community to work together on neighborhood councils, task forces, planning committees, and advisory boards to identify needs in the community and to develop and implement a comprehensive plan for multisystem change (Kurzman, 1985). Proponents of the CCI believe that it is the best approach to address the "compounding and interrelatedness of [social] problems" (Ewalt, 1997, p. 413). Rather than using a single strategy targeting one "cause" of a social problem, CCIs offer a comprehensive systems approach that attacks complex problems on a variety of fronts using different kinds of community practice models simultaneously (Gamble & Well, 1995; Rothman & Zald, 1995). CCIs combine a number of strategies, including macro-level strategies such as establishing comprehensive social services, community building and economic development; meso-level strategies such as housing rehabilitation, neighborhood beautification, school reform, the provision of health and mental health care, and child and adult day care; and micro-level strategies such as job training, leadership development, and adult education programs (Ewalt, 1997; Kubisch, Weiss, Schorr, & Connell, 1995; Stagner & Duran, 1997).
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