Community Mobilization and Its Application to Youth Violence Prevention
Abstract
In addressing health and social issues, there has been a shift since the 1990s to approaches that focus more on making comprehensive community-based changes to affect individual behavior. This article provides an overview of community mobilization to engage community members in the process of addressing social and health issues, discusses current models, and provides a case study. The balance of the article looks at other efforts reported in this supplement, and the ways in which they have used community mobilization as a viable strategy for preventing youth violence.
aDepartment of Psychology & Asian American Studies Program, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, California
bAsian/Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention Center (APIYVPC), University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
cDepartment of Psychiatry, The Center for the Study and Prevention of Youth Violence, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Greg Kim-Ju, PhD, Department of Psychology & Asian American Studies Program, California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento CA 95819.
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