Re: Community Prevention Project

[gary paquin <paquingw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Several years ago we developed a small project in mostly rural Kentucky
using community focus groups to develop and implement sexual abuse
prevention projects. Unfortunately, due to a sudden change in the way the
state collected abuse statistics there was no way to examine the outcome of
such projects.  A description of the project and the some of the ideas the
commuity groups developed can be found in:
	Paquin, G. (200). A community development approach to child sexual
abuse prevention. Family Violence and Sexual Abuse Bulletin 16(3): 18-21.

Gary Paquin, JD, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof.
University of Cincinnati
School of Social Work
P.O.Box 210108
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0108










Hello everyone!
>
>I am a program evaluator and researcher at the Howard Phillips Center
>for Children and Families in Orlando, FL.  The program evaluation
>department is currently working on a community prevention project called
>"Project Prevention Orange."  The goal of this project is to make
>recommendations to the Orange County, FL community regarding child
>abuse prevention: what are the best practices, what risk factors need to
>be targetted, how to address gaps in service, etc.
>
>The project is in its beginning stages.  We are designing a community
>needs assessment that will rate current prevention programs based on
>review of program materials and focus groups with clients about the
>programs.   Ecological theory is our guding principle, so we would like to
>assess how well prevention programs are supporting families at all
>levels of the model.
>
>I have two requests related to this project:
>
>1) Is there anyone on this list that is involved in a similar communilty
>prevention project starting "from scratch"? I would like to connect with
>you about what you have learned.
>
>2) Are there interview protocols out there that address multiple
>ecological levels of social service programs?
>
>Thank you for you time!
>
>LeLaina Romero
>Program Evaluator
>Howard Phillips Center for Children and Families
>Orlando, FL