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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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The Author | |
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Why Collaborative Solutions? How Our Helping Systems Are Failing Us | |
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Community Solutions Demand a New, Collaborative Approach | |
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How Our Traditional Community Problem-Solving Methods Fail | |
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What Does This Tell Us, and What Do We Do Next? | |
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Building Healthy Communities Through Collaborative Solutions: An Overview of Six Key Principles | |
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Encourage True Collaboration as the Form of Exchange | |
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Engage the Full Diversity of the Community, Especially Those Most Directly Affected | |
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Practice Democracy and Promote Active Citizenship and Empowerment | |
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Employ an Ecological Approach That Builds on Community Strengths | |
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Take Action by Addressing Issues of Social Change and Power on the Basis of a Common Vision | |
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Engage Spirituality as Your Compass for Social Change | |
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Community Story: The Cleghorn Neighborhood Center | |
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Encouraging True Collaboration | |
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Networking | |
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Coordination | |
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Cooperation | |
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Collaboration | |
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Learning to Collaborate: Risks, Resources, Rewards, and Responsibilities | |
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What If� | |
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Community Story: The North Quabbin Community Coalition | |
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Engaging the Full Diversity of the Community | |
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Mini-Grants | |
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Leadership Development | |
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Community Outreach Workers | |
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Community Organizers | |
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Experiment with Simple Options to Engage Community Members | |
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Community Story: The Mayor s Task Force on Deinstitutionalization | |
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Practicing Democracy | |
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How Much Participation Do We Want? | |
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How Do We Encourage Democratic Participation? | |
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More Ways to Support the Practice of Democracy | |
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Community Story: Valuing Our Children | |
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Employing an Ecological Approach That Builds on Community Strengths | |
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Assets and Deficits | |
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Setting the Stage to Move from Assets to Action | |
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Healthy Communities: A Model Ecological Approach | |
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Healthy Communities in Action | |
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Community Stories: The Northern Berkshire Community Coalition and The Lower/Outer Cape Community Coalition | |
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Community Story: The Institute for Community Peace and The Santa Barbara Pro-Youth Coalition | |
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Taking Action and Working for Social Change | |
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Key Factors for Coalitions in Successfully Creating Community Change | |
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Creating a Common Vision | |
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Community Action to Create Community Change | |
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Addressing Issues of Social Change and Power | |
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Addressing Issues of Social Change in Collaborative Efforts | |
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Power-Based Versus Relationship-Based Social Change | |
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Barack Obama's Election and the Future of Collaborative Solutions | |
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Community Story: Health Access Networks | |
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Engaging Spirituality as Your Compass for Social Change | |
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What Really Works? | |
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The Current Helping System: How It Is Stuck and How We Can Free It | |
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Overcoming the Limitations with the Help of Spiritual Principles | |
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It's Profound, It's Not Easy ... but It's Within Our Reach | |
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Community Story: Bringing It All Back to Earth: The Spiritual Essence of a Regular Meeting of the North Quabbin Community Coalition | |
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Conclusion | |
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Appendix: Evaluation: Assessing Our Progress and Celebrating Our Success | |
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Questions an Evaluation Can Help Answer | |
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Community Participation in Evaluation | |
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Frameworks for Evaluating Coalitions | |
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Documentation and Evaluation in Action: Community Stories | |
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Conclusion | |
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References | |
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Index | |