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Organizational partnerships for a trauma‐informed community: A community‐wide social network study
Author(s) -
King Lindsey M.,
LeBeau Kelsea,
Hart Mark,
Vacca Raffaele
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.22645
Subject(s) - betweenness centrality , social network analysis , centrality , outreach , social network (sociolinguistics) , organizational network analysis , public relations , psychology , cohesion (chemistry) , community organization , business , knowledge management , social capital , sociology , political science , organizational learning , social science , computer science , chemistry , mathematics , organic chemistry , combinatorics , law , social media
We investigated whether Peace4Tarpon's trauma‐responsive community capacity activities led to greater collaboration among community partners. We conducted longitudinal social network analysis (SNA) among organizations within Peace4Tarpon's network in 2016 and 2018 to capture cooperation around adverse childhood experiences‐related topics. We examined network structure, cohesion, organizational collaboration, and associations between centrality and organizational practices. Peace4Tarpon's network included diverse sectors, with a group of organizations forming the network core and collaborating over time. The network displayed a small increase in cohesion, more cross‐sector collaboration, and less heterophily over time. We found a significant difference between the mean betweenness centralities of organizations who assessed resilience and those who did not in the 2018 average union network. This is one of the first studies using SNA to investigate a trauma‐informed community network. Findings from this type of analysis may assist community organizations in strengthening outreach and strategically engaging organizations within a trauma‐informed network.