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Community Organization and School Liaisons: How to Get Programs Started
Author(s) -
Pentz Mary Ann
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1986.tb05778.x
Subject(s) - community organization , health promotion , substance abuse prevention , promotion (chess) , community health , health education , population , substance abuse , process (computing) , intervention (counseling) , community organizing , public relations , product (mathematics) , program evaluation , medical education , psychology , medicine , nursing , public health , political science , computer science , environmental health , psychiatry , geometry , mathematics , politics , law , operating system , public administration
This paper briefly reviews four intervention models, Rothman's community organization, Green's system‐centered education, Rogers' innovation‐decision process, and Watzlawick's planned change, for their applicability to help initiate community‐based programs for drug abuse prevention and health promotion in youth. An expanded model is described, including preprogram assessment of the target population, community, and drug use problem, and continuous evaluation of program process and product. School liaisons are emphasized as a key factor in early adoption and demonstration of a community‐based program for youth. The expanded model, including school liaisons, is applied to a comprehensive community drug abuse prevention project being implemented in the Greater Kansas City area. The model — and the project — suggest methods for organizing communities for long‐term drug prevention, initially at the level of school and school district, and later to the family, mass media, and community organizations in a proximal‐to‐distal sequence of programming.