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The Role of Community Resource Assessments in the Development of 15 Adolescent Health Community-Researcher Partnerships
- Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 2008
- pp. 31-39
- 10.1353/cpr.2008.0010
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Buy Issue for $25 at JHUPBackground: Connect to Protect (C2P): Partnerships for Youth Prevention Interventions is an initiative that alters the community's structural elements to reduce youth HIV rates.
Objectives: This study details a community resource assessment and describes how resources were evaluated in the context of local needs.
Methods: Fifteen sites developed a community resource list, conducted a brief survey, created a youth service directory, and mapped where disease prevalence and community resources intersected. Sites also completed a survey to review and verify local site findings.
Results: On average, sites identified 267 potential community resources. Sites narrowed their resource list to conduct a brief survey with 1,162 agencies; the site average was 78. Final products of this process included maps comparing resources with risk data.
Conclusions: The evaluation of local resources is an important initial step in partnership development and is essential for the success of health promotion and disease prevention interventions that target adolescents.
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