Creating a Community Coalition to Address Violence

Building a community-wide coalition to address violence evolved out of a five-year federally funded project on abuse during pregnancy. The setting for this coalition building is Haverhill, Massachusetts, a city of about 60,000, located northeast of Boston in the Merrimack River Valley. For nearly ei...

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Published in:Issues in mental health nursing 2008-07, Vol.29 (7), p.755-765
Main Authors: Hawkins, Joellen W., Pearce, Carole W., Windle, Karen, Connors, Mary L., Ireland, Carol, Thompson, Donald E., Zaft, Arleen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child welfare
Community based programmes
Community Health Planning - organization & administration
Community Participation - methods
Cooperative Behavior
Documentation
Emigrants and Immigrants
Health Care Coalitions - organization & administration
Health Planning Support - organization & administration
Health Planning Technical Assistance - organization & administration
Humans
Interagency collaboration
Interinstitutional Relations
Leadership
Massachusetts - epidemiology
Models, Organizational
Needs Assessment
Nursing
Organizational Objectives
Poverty Areas
Program Development
Program Evaluation
Risk Factors
Urban Health Services - organization & administration
Violence
Violence - prevention & control
Violence - statistics & numerical data
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Summary:Building a community-wide coalition to address violence evolved out of a five-year federally funded project on abuse during pregnancy. The setting for this coalition building is Haverhill, Massachusetts, a city of about 60,000, located northeast of Boston in the Merrimack River Valley. For nearly eight years, representatives of more than 30 agencies and institutions have been meeting monthly and creating programs and strategies to address violence in homes, schools, and neighborhoods, and designing interventions for children witnessing this violence. The purpose of this article is to describe the process of coalition building and provide an analysis of this work.
ISSN:0161-2840
1096-4673
DOI:10.1080/01612840802129202