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| Web Contents | |
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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 | |