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Participants
  • Children's Bureau

  • LA County CEO

  • St. John’s Well Child

  • DPH; Nurse Family Partners

  • DMH

  • Strategies


Research Premise

Social scientists have long held that the neighborhood where one lives is a unit of social identity and action that should provide for those that live there, the range of facilities, service and provisions for every day life. And, as a unit of action negotiate and collaborate with outside interests that contribute to improving individual’s capacity and health and well-being.

Measures

Long-Term Outcomes (Magnolia Place Demonstration Area/Improvements at Scale):

  • Family and Child Health and Well-being

  • Safe and Nurturing Families

  • Kindergarten/School Readiness

  • Economic Stability


Intermediate Outcomes (Neighborhood Level)
  • Community resiliency

  • Increase of social networks

  • Increase in civic participation

  • Sense of community

  • Perceptions of community safety

  • Density and responsiveness of organizations to community needs (root causes)


Short-Term Outcomes (Individual and Family Protective Factors
and Individual Behaviors or Impact):
  • Parent Resiliency

  • Reduction of social isolation/Increase in social connectedness

  • Parent knowledge of child development

  • Ability to access needed supports in times of need

  • Child emotional and social development

  • Impact of services/resources on participating individuals


Tools

Our current challenge is to identify validated tools or adopt specific validated questions or groupings of questions for the proposed measures.

Current Efforts

Launch January 2009
Network Partner Survey

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