Published
2016-03-02
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Reflection: Working Toward Peaceful, Healthy Communities
Donald L Gault
Building Peaceful Community
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/ijps.v3i1.120
Keywords: family violence prevention and intervention, community partnerships, community systems organizing, public health, primary prevention, appreciative inquiry
Abstract
Family violence is a pervasive problem locally, nationally, and worldwide. Since 1990, staff from Saint Paul-Ramsey County (Minnesota) Public Health have worked with hundreds of community members and organizations in a unique partnership approach to preventing violence. The process of developing and sustaining this unique partnership is described, as well impacts and outcomes from work developed and implemented over 25 years of sustained efforts. Implications for practice in community organizing and partnership, violence prevention, public health, and adherence to evidence- and research-based best practice models are discussed.
