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The Need for Informed Conversations Between Research and Practice
The Need for Informed Conversations Between Research and Practice
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Such efforts include the National Community-Building Network, schools of graduate education in the fields of social policy and human services that link research and practice, educational programs that offer in-depth training for service providers, and electronic networks such as HANDS.NET and the comprehensive strategies forum that offer on-line access to program experiences and perspectives. Several research collaboration networks have also emerged to help integrate 21
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INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE Although some efforts to create multiagency and multidisciplinary approaches addressing the relationships between youth development and neighborhood influences are under way, participants observed that these approaches offer few opportunities to examine basic conceptual models that accompany program design and implementation. A critical, ongoing examination of emerging theories, instrumentation, and research findings could help integrate efforts to strengthen social organization within disadvantaged communities, improve programs designed to enhance positive outcomes for youth, and create ongoing dialogues between individual program efforts and research studies.
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THE NEED FOR INFORMED CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 23 · This research base can contribute to the design and assessment of community-based programs intended to improve youth outcomes; · The relatively recent origins of research on social settings suggest that significant modifications and improvements in the conceptual frameworks and research measures should be expected in the coming decade; · The practitioner community has experience and perspectives that are critical to the development of useful theory and measures regarding the role and impact of social settings and social interactions; · The multidisciplinary character of the emerging research scholarship will require intensive training programs and bridging efforts focused on understanding and improving outcomes for youth; and · The patchwork of programs that has been assembled over the past few decades to assist children, youth, and families is now in flux as policy officials and service providers in a variety of organizational settings seek to provide human services and supports in a more comprehensive, coordinated manner. Workshop participants observed that the time is ripe to describe the experiences and insights associated with efforts to change the quality and nature of educational, health, and social service systems; to examine the variation within different community experiments; and to develop data collection efforts that can assess their impact on youth outcomes over time.
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