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Community-Based Action Research in a Multi-Site Prevention Project: Challenges and Resolutions

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
September 1994

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This article examines the use of action research strategies over a four-year period in developing and evaluating a prevention program for children and their families. This research has taken place in a low-income multi-cultural neighbourhood in Sudbury. Strategies to foster participation and the practical relevance of findings are described, both for the initial proposal development stage, and for the period after a local program was funded as part of a multisite evaluation project. After reviewing the challenges inherent in doing action research within a multicultural neighbourhood, and within a multi-site design, we discuss which strategies have worked, and what remains to be resolved.

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Cet article décrit les stratégies de recherche action des quatre années d'implantation et d'évaluation d'un programme de prévention pour les enfants et leur famille. Cette recherche a été effectuée dans un milieu multiculturel è faible revenu de Sudbury. Des stratégies pour solliciter la participation sont présentées. On y relève également les retombées pratiques des résultats, è la fois pour l'étape du développement du projet initial et pour la période suivant la reconnaissance d'un programme local comme faisant partie d'un projet d'évaluation multi-site. Après un résumé des défis inhérents aux recherches se déroulant dans un milieu multiculturel et réalisées dans une évaluation multisite, la discsussion porte sur les stratégies qui ont réssi et sur les problèmes qu'il reste è résoudre.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 13Number 2September 1994
Pages: 229 - 240

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Version of record online: 4 May 2009

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Marge Reitsma-Street
Robert Arnold

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