Government centered approach in rabies prevention and control has not led to rabies safe community, both in urban and rural areas. Government services and organizations should recognize that only joint collaboration among households and community can lead to a successful rabies control mission. Dog owners should have been more actively involved in the prevention and solving of rabies problem. P...

The Coyote Community College Case Study was prepared for use in the 2000 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner Preparation Course. This report provides a sample feedback report for that case study. The Coyote Community College Case Study describes a fictitious college. There is no connection between the Coyote Community College Case Study and any college, either named Coyote Communit...

Although federal legislative policies greatly impact service delivery in local communities because they dictate which organizations will be allowed to participate in federally funded service provision, there has been little, if any, comparative, quantitative analysis of religious and secular organizations within the same geographic context (Vidal 2001). For example, the 1996 Charitable Choice l...

The AIDS Community Information Outreach Program (ACIOP) was created in 1994 to assist the affected community in utilizing electronic HIV/AIDS information resources. Nearly 300 competitive awards have been made to mostly community-based organizations. A formal evaluation was undertaken to determine the performance and impact of the ACIOP. A mixed methods design combined quantitative abstractions...

Substance abuse during pregnancy continues to affect the lives of families across the United States. Most communities are not organized to deal with the multiple problems that must be addressed when developing intervention and treatment programs for pregnant women. At the same time, many citizens and community organizations may be suspicious of outside investigators stepping in to design outrea...

Large numbers of social policy initiatives and community organizations are currently engaged in “community building” efforts that seek, in part, to strengthen informal relationships and the organizational infrastructure of communities and to build the capacity of communities to manage and foster community change. One critical requirement for improving such practice is for communities to have gr...