After five years with no public schools in their community, residents and neighborhood organizations of the Near Westside of Indianapolis advocated for the opening of George Washington Community High School (GWCHS). As a neighborhood in close proximity to the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, the Near Westside and campus worked together to address this issue and impro...

LA VIDA--the Southwest Detroit Partnership to Prevent Intimate Violence Against Latina Women--evolved in response to community concern about the problem of intimate partner violence (IPV) and the lack of culturally competent preventive and support services for Latino women and men in southwest Detroit. Since 1997, diverse organizations have mobilized as a community-academic partnership to ensur...

For many years the importance of sharing information on cybersecurity risks, vulnerabilities, and incidents has been understood. Organizations working in isolation are at a disadvantage when facing the types of threats existing in today’s Internet environment. Informal information sharing has been conducted for many years. More formal information sharing organizations were created in response t...

G patients with complex health problems are increasingly dominating primary care practices. Their challenging conditions stretch the time limits of a typical visit and tax a clinic’s staff. The experience often frustrates the primary care physician as well as the patient and his or her caregivers. Physicians may be uncertain about treating common geriatric conditions, such as falls and memor...

This paper examines the extent to which various forms of social capital impact community-level organizational vitality. My hypothesis is that, controlling for other relevant social, political and economic factors, communities with higher levels of social capital should experience more robust organizational and financial growth, and less failure, in their for-profit and nonprofit sectors. I test...

'In a recent article published in this journal, the authors argued that elephants and public organizations have something in common. Both are saddled with inaccurate stereotypes. Elephants are believed to be slow and insensitive creatures, when in fact they can run very fast and are very sensitive. Similarly, public organizations are believed to be low-performing and unresponsive, when in fact ...

What is attempted in this article is to present an organizational perspective on community mental health centers (CMHCs) that could provide a clearer understanding of the structures and processes observed in them. The perspective is derived from a broader application of organizational theory to human service organizations. It is based on the assumption that human service organizations are a dis...

BACKGROUND Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is ideally a collaborative approach to research that equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings. METHODS We reviewed the processes, strategies, and activities around the interface of community-academic partnerships using a CBPR model focused on addressing healthcare issue...