Youth Empowerment Programme for community betterment through social action

Community Action Programme on Social Exclusion

The revised common objectives of the EU Strategy to combat poverty and social exclusion include targeting the high risk of social exclusion faced by some people as a result of immigration.Access to decent and affordable housing is a critical condition for inclusion in society and integration into a host culture.A key objective of this study is to assist the development of more coherent and inte...

Preventing diabetes through community empowerment.

Community Youth Development: A Partnership for Action

The concept of Community Youth Development is introduced and explained to raise the level of accountability, significance, and urgency for developing comprehensive responses to the epidemic of risk facing America’s youth. The two theoretical models of adolescence (i.e., Positive Youth Development and Risk and Resiliency) that are employed as the pillars of this approach are also presented. The ...

Reducing Health Inequities Through Intersectoral Action: Balancing Equity in Health With Equity for Other Social Goods

Significant attention has been devoted to developing intersectoral strategies to reduce health inequities; however, these strategies have largely neglected to consider how equity in health ought to be weighted and balanced with the pursuit of equity for other social goods (eg, education equity). Research in this domain is crucial, as the health sector’s pursuit of health equity may be at odds w...

Lived experiences of HIV community workers participating in a community empowerment programme.

BACKGROUND Both non-governmental organisations and governmental organisations are very involved in the development and implementation of community empowerment programmes (CEPs). Because of various health issues within the community, 10 CEPs were launched in Ladysmith with a focus on addressing the particular needs of HIV-affected and -infected members. Of the 10 programmes, however, only four w...