TY - JOUR
T1 - Promoting strengths, prevention, empowerment, and community change through organizational development
T2 - Lessons for research, theory, and practice
AU - Evans, Scotney D.
AU - Prilleltensky, Ora
AU - McKenzie, Adrine
AU - Prilleltensky, Isaac
AU - Nogueras, Debbie
AU - Huggins, Corinne
AU - Mescia, Nick
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is made possible through funding from The Children’s Trust. Address correspondence to Scotney D. Evans, Department of Educational and Psychological Studies, School of Education, University of Miami, Merrick Building Room 312, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - SPEC Learning and Changing by Doing is a three-year, action research, and organizational change project designed to ultimately promote social justice and well-being in the community. SPEC is an acronym that stands for Strengths, Prevention, Empowerment, and Community Change. The project consists of five organizations tackling internal organizational change in order to better promote justice and well-being in their respective constituencies. In this article we present a formative evaluation of this multicase study of organizational change in human services. This article contributes to the empirical and theoretical literature on organizational change in the nonprofit human service milieu.
AB - SPEC Learning and Changing by Doing is a three-year, action research, and organizational change project designed to ultimately promote social justice and well-being in the community. SPEC is an acronym that stands for Strengths, Prevention, Empowerment, and Community Change. The project consists of five organizations tackling internal organizational change in order to better promote justice and well-being in their respective constituencies. In this article we present a formative evaluation of this multicase study of organizational change in human services. This article contributes to the empirical and theoretical literature on organizational change in the nonprofit human service milieu.
KW - community change
KW - empowerment
KW - organization development
KW - prevention
KW - promoting strengths
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U2 - 10.1080/10852352.2011.530166
DO - 10.1080/10852352.2011.530166
M3 - Article
C2 - 21271432
AN - SCOPUS:79251609551
SN - 1085-2352
VL - 39
SP - 50
EP - 64
JO - Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community
JF - Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community
IS - 1
ER -