The Morehouse Model

The Morehouse Model
Author: Ronald L. Braithwaite
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1421438046

How can the example of Morehouse School of Medicine help other health-oriented universities create ideal collaborations between faculty and community-based organizations? Among the 154 medical schools in the United States, Morehouse School of Medicine stands out for its formidable success in improving its surrounding communities. Over its history, Morehouse has become known as an institution committed to community engagement with an interest in closing the health equity gap between people of color and the white majority population. In The Morehouse Model, Ronald L. Braithwaite and his coauthors reveal the lessons learned over the decades since the school's founding—lessons that other medical schools and health systems will be eager to learn in the hope of replicating Morehouse's success. Describing the philosophical, cultural, and contextual grounding of the Morehouse Model, they give concrete examples of it in action before explaining how to foster the collaboration between community-based organizations and university faculty that is essential to making this model of care and research work. Arguing that establishing ongoing collaborative projects requires genuineness, transparency, and trust from everyone involved, the authors offer a theory of citizen participation as a critical element for facilitating behavioral change. Drawing on case studies, exploratory research, surveys, interventions, and secondary analysis, they extrapolate lessons to advance the field of community-based participatory research alongside community health. Written by well-respected leaders in the effort to reduce health inequities, The Morehouse Model is rooted in social action and social justice constructs. It will be a touchstone for anyone conducting community-based participatory research, as well as any institution that wants to have a positive effect on its local community.

A Model Community

A Model Community
Author: Michael Ostrowski
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2003-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1401087116

Hollywood . . . a land of movie stars, models, and million dollar deals. But not for Tim Parker. Tim has a dreary job and wastes his nights drinking with struggling writers, actors, and stand-up comics. Lately he's having trouble distinguishing one day from the next. That's until Dean Reardon, his college roommate, appears at his doorstep. Dean, the lucky one. Dean, the guy with infinite potential. Dean . . . has changed since college. He says he's come west in search of money, lost love and redemption, and desperately needs Tim's help. In A Model Community, what follows is a bizarre odyssey through the town that projects happy endings on the silver screen, but is less charitable with them in reality.

Sustainable Community

Sustainable Community
Author: Graham Stuart Meltzer
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2005
Genre: Housing, Cooperative
ISBN: 1412232465

Based on a ten year investigation of cohousing, a popular new typeo f housing project that directly addresses both environmental degradation and social disintegration. The book argues that social and environmental sustainability are inexorably linked. [Publisher web site].

Next Chapter Book Club

Next Chapter Book Club
Author: Thomas R. Fish
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Book clubs (Discussion groups)
ISBN: 9781890627799

A guide to starting and running a Next Chapter Book Club for people with intellectual disabilities, that explains how to find and train volunteer facilitators, attract members, and select books, and includes samples of forms, reports, and surveys, which are also on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Community College Models

Community College Models
Author: Rosalind Latiner Raby
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2009-03-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1402094779

Increasingly, students worldwide are seeking post-secondary education to acquire new skill-sets and credentials. There is an explosion of community college models that provide educational opportunities and alternative pathways for students who do not fit the traditional higher educational profile. This book focuses on economic models to help local and national economies develop strong workforce training, humanitarian models to bring about social mobility and peace, transformative models to help institutions expand and keep up with societal needs, and newly created models that respond to the educational and training needs of a constantly changing world. These models seek to capture the imagination of those who are committed to learning about what works in higher education and in particular, the impact community college models are having on the changing nature of world social, political and economic landscapes. With contributors representing 30 countries, this book presents an international perspective.

Building Resilience to Trauma

Building Resilience to Trauma
Author: Elaine Miller-Karas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-02-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1136480889

After a traumatic experience, survivors often experience a cascade of physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and spiritual responses that leave them feeling unbalanced and threatened. Building Resilience to Trauma explains these common responses from a biological perspective, reframing the human experience from one of shame and pathology to one of hope and biology. It also presents alternative approaches, the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) and the Community Resiliency Model (CRM), which offer concrete and practical skills that resonate with what we know about the biology of trauma. In programs co-sponsored by the World Health Organization, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, ADRA International and the department of behavioral health of San Bernardino County, the TRM and the CRM have been used to reduce and in some cases eliminate the symptoms of trauma by helping survivors regain a sense of balance. Clinicians will find that they can use the models with almost anyone who has experienced or witnessed any event that was perceived as life threatening or posed a serious injury to themselves or to others. The models can also be used to treat symptoms of vicarious traumatization and compassion fatigue.

Community Practice

Community Practice
Author: David A. Hardcastle
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2011-02-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0195398874

This fully revised classic text provides a comprehensive and integrated overview of the community theory and skills fundamental to all areas of social work practice.