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Here’s a list of additional helpful sources of information we discovered during the literature review.

They point you to potentially useful publications and resources on concepts related to community engagement.

The sources are divided into different subgroups to provide direction on their contents. These subgroups are:

Community Building

  • Mattessich, Paul., Barbara, Monsey., and Corinna Roy. Community Building: What Makes it Work. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 1997.

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Community Engagement and Education

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Community Engagement and Health

  • Cagen, Eve, R., Tamara Hubinsky., Andrew Goodman., Deborah Deitcher., and Neal l. Cohn. “Participating with Communities to Improve Health: the New York City Turning Point Experience” Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Vol. 78, No. 1, March 2002 176-180.
  • Eisinger, Alison., and Kirsten Senturia. “Doing Community-Driven Research: A Description of Seattle Partners for Healthy Communities” Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Vol. 78, No. 3, September 2001: 519-534.
  • Flacks, Dick. “The Revolution of Citizenship”, 1990 In, Rothman, Jack., John L. Erlich., and John E. Tropman (eds.). Strategies of Community Intervention (Fifth Edition). Itasca, Illinois: F.E. Peacock Publishers, Inc. 1995.
  • Higgins, Donna l., and Marilyn Metzler. “Implementing Community-Based Participatory Research Centers in Diverse Urban Settings” Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Vol. 78, No. 3, September 2001: 488-494.
  • Lantz., Paula M., Edna Virtuell-Fuentes., Barbara A. Israel., Donald Softley., and Ricardo Guzman. “Can Communities and Academia Work Together on Public Health Research? Evaluating Results from a Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership in Detroit” Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Vol. 78, No. 3, September 2001: 495-507.
  • Lasker, Roz D., and Elisa S. Weiss. “Broadening Participation in Community Problem Solving: A Multidisciplinary Model to Support Collaborative Practice and Research” Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Vol. 80, No. 1, March 2003: 14-60.
  • Yassi, Annalee., Niurys Fernandez., Ariadna Fernandez., Mariano Bonet., Robert B. Tate., and Jerry Spiegel. “Community Participation in a Multisectoral Intervention to Address Health Determinants in an Inner-City Community in Central Havana” Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Vol. 80, No. 1, March 2003: 61-80.

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Community Engagement and Sustainability

  • Pierce, John T., and Ann Dale (eds.). Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada. Vancouver, British Columbia: UBC Press, 1999.

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Community Development

  • Christenson, James. A., and Jerry W. Robinson, Jr. (eds.) Community Development in Perspective. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1989.
  • Bruce, David., and Gwen Lister (eds.), Rising Tide: Community Development Tools, Models, and Processes. Canada: National Library of Canada, 2001.

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Citizen Participation

  • Primer on Public Engagement - This primer from Public Agenda. explains how public engagement helps create civic capacity for public problem solving, offers 10 core principles of effective public engagement and describes a few examples of key practices and strategies.  Download the primer here.  [Source: Coalition for Community Schools]

  • Simpson, Ann. “Opening Dialogue, Opening Minds: Encouraging Citizen Engagement” In Caledon Institute of Social Policy. Community Stories. Ottawa, Canada: Caledon Institute of Social Policy, September 2001.

  • Torjman, Sherri., Eric Leviten-Reid., Christopher Camp., and Anne Makhoul. From Information to Application: How Communities Learn. Ottawa, Canada: Caledon Institute of Social Policy, September 2001.
  • VanWynberghe, Rob., Janet Moore., James Tansey., and Jeff Carmichael. “Towards Community Engagement: Six steps to expert learning and future scenario development” Futures. Vol. 35, Issue 3, April 2003: 203-219.

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Empowerment

  • Rothman, Jack. “Approaches to Community Intervention”. 1968 In Rothman, Jack., John L. Erlich., and John E. Tropman (eds.). Strategies of Community Intervention (Fifth Edition). Itasca, Illinois: F.E. Peacock Publishers, Inc. 1995.
  • Sirianni, Carmen., and Lewis Friedland. Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Pubic Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal. Berkley, California: University of California Press, 2001.

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Neighbourhood Associations

  • Rabrenovic, Gordana. Community Builders: A Tale of Neighborhood Mobilization in Two Cities. Philadelphia, United States: Temple University Press, 1996.

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Neighbourhood Planning

  • Checkoway, Barry. Two Types of Planning in Neighborhoods. 1984 In, Rothman, Jack., John L. Erlich., and John E. Tropman (eds.). Strategies of Community Intervention (Fifth Edition). Itasca, Illinois: F.E. Peacock Publishers, Inc. 1995.

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Social Capital

  • Mclean, Scott L., David A. Shultz, and Manfred B. Steger. Social Captial: Critical Perspectives on Community And “Bowling Alone”. New York, United States: New York University Press, 2002.
  • Neace, M.B. “Entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies: Creating Trust, Social Capital, and Civil Society” In Morales, Isidro., Guillermo de los Reyes., and Paul Rich. Civil Society and Democratization: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. London, England: Sage Periodicals Press. Volume 565, September 1999.
  • Selznick, Philip. The Communitarian Persuasion. Washington, D.C: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002.
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