Understanding program leader perspectives on the sustainment of evidence-based practice (EBP) in community mental health settings is essential to improving implementation. To date, however, much of ...the literature has focused on direct service provider perspectives on EBP implementation. The aim of this mixed-method study was to identify factors associated with the sustainment of multiple EBPs within a system-driven implementation effort in children's mental health services.
Data were gathered from 186 leaders at 59 agencies within the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health who were contracted to deliver one of six EBPs within the Prevention and Early Intervention initiative.
Multi-level analyses of quantitative survey data (N = 186) revealed a greater probability of leader-reported EBP sustainment in large agencies and when leaders held more positive perceptions toward the EBP. Themes from semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted with a subset of survey participants (n = 47) expanded quantitative findings by providing detail on facilitating conditions in larger agencies and aspects of EBP fit that were perceived to lead to greater sustainment, including perceived fit with client needs, implementation requirements, aspects of the organizational workforce, availability of trainings, and overall therapist attitudes about EBPs.
Findings inform EBP implementation efforts regarding decisions around organizational-level supports and promotion of EBP fit.
AbstractFacility maintenance management (FMM) is essential for ensuring long-term values and to sustain project goals throughout the life cycle delivery process. However, in underdeveloped nations ...such as Ethiopia, facility maintenance management is an immature and underutilised process that requires a holistic intervention for practical improvement. The main aim of this study was to identify and prioritise critical factors that affect the effectiveness of FMM, with a focus on public universities in Ethiopia. Initially, a total of thirty-three (33) crucial variables were identified with a systematic literature review and desk study. To collect primary data, a survey research design approach was utilised using questionnaires and informant interviews. A total of seventy-five (75) data sets were obtained from 180 online surveys for conducting exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The outcome of the study revealed thirteen (13) critical attributes grouped into four factors that affect the effectiveness of facility maintenance management practises. The final four-factor model includes F1, internal processes and organisation; F2, community culture, learning, and growth; F3, impacts of design and construction quality; and F4, facility maintenance approach and management. This study indicated that facility maintenance management practises in public universities in Ethiopia are immature and require extensive enhancement. The identified influencing factors highlight the need for a comprehensive intervention to promote improved facility maintenance management practises and applications in Ethiopia. Further research is needed to analyse a wider range of attributes and data using confirmatory factor analysis.
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DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
Artykuł przedstawia podstawowe problemy wdrażania modelu współpracy międzysektorowej, w ramach tzw. partnerstw terytorialnych, na rzecz rozwoju określonych regionów wiejskich w latach 2001-2004 w ...Polsce. W tym okresie partnerstwa tworzono przy wsparciu środków zagranicznych i ze znacznym udziałem organizacji pozarządowych. Głównymi barierami ich działania były: niewystarczające środki finansowe; brak form prawnych, w których na równych prawach współpracować mogłyby samorządy, organizacje pozarządowe i przedsiębiorstwa; tendencje do dominacji liderów w działaniach grupy, słabe struktury organizacyjne i brak długoterminowych strategii. Pierwsze efekty współpracy są niewielkie i dotyczą głównie zagadnień społecznych i promocji turystycznej, ale wskazują na pozytywną rolę tego typu koalicji w rozwoju lokalnym.
The aim of the study was to compare implementation of Scheme II a LEADER- type measure in Wielkopolska and in the country. The work presents selected characteristics of rural areas in the region and ...in the whole country, as well as the sources and the level of financial support.
The article discusses the aspects connected with implementation of LEADER+ type measures in new member states. The work presents characteristics of new partnerships and the sources and the level of ...financial support.
V prispevku je analiziran pomen politike razvoja podeželja v glavnih strateških dokumentih in izvedbenih ukrepih kmetijske politike. Kvalitativna analiza Nacionalnega strateškega načrta za programsko ...obdobje 2007 - 2013, ki zajema raven usklajenosti politike z razvojnimi potrebami in cilji, predstavlja okvir za kritično oceno sprejemljivosti posameznih ukrepov. Obseg in struktura finančnih sredstev, ki jih za različne spodbude namenja država, kažeta na izrazito povečan gospodarski, socialni in okoljski pomen razvoja slovenskega podeželja.
Celem pracy jest charakterystyka funkcjonowania lokalnych grup działania (LGD) w perspektywie 2014-2020 i ocena skali i zakresu oddziaływania LGD poprzez politykę włączenia społecznego na ...społeczności obszarów wiejskich i miejsko-wiejskich województwa lubelskiego. Cel został zrealizowany dzięki analizie literatury przedmiotu i dokumentów regulujących funkcjonowanie wszystkich 22 LGD z województwa lubelskiego oraz desk research. Zebrany materiał poddano analizie statystycznej z zastosowaniem statystki opisowej oraz testu istotności różnic. Wykazano, że przeciwdziałanie wykluczeniu społecznemu w różnych jego wymiarach i obszarach zawarto w celach statutowych i strategiach rozwoju wszystkich LGD. Wśród nich wyodrębniono grupę szczególnie aktywnie realizujących politykę włączenia, jednak wykazano niską aktywność badanych LGD na rzecz rozwoju działań postulowanych w Krajowym Programie Rozwoju Ekonomii Społecznej.
Rural and agricultural development is one of the priorities of the European Union policy. Rural areas represent the majority of the territory of the member states and are becoming increasingly ...important from both, the standpoint of healthy food production as well as the habitat, alike. The agriculture in the EU is regulated in accordance with the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which is a system framework for provision of funding for more equal rural and regional development in the enlarged Union. In the context of CAP, Leader programmes were created. Each new version of the programme included new approaches. The awareness of the fact that paying attention to agriculture as an economic sector and using direct subsidies as a means to implement a policy were not sufficient, was the basis for the new development paradigm which, in addition to agriculture, included also the spatial dimension – rural area and multisectoral approach. The new approach is based on the bottom-up endogenous approach. Globalisation and fastgrowing disparities in development at both, national and regional levels, led the OECD to prepare a new rural development paradigm in 2006 which redefined the key subjects at the decision-making level as well as the level of measures aimed at facilitating substantial rural development. Changes previously applied in the production sector served as an example of good practice. Based on the search of ways to overcoming global economic crisis, and the Europa 2020 guidelines, the new CAP reform proposals from 2011 were founded on two pillars. The first one comprises of measures for strengthening competitiveness of the agricultural sector, measures to facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship, whereas the second pillar aims at tackling climate changes, and strives for environment protection, biodiversity, and efforts to maintain and provide new jobs and economic growth in the rural area. Any substantial reduction in agricultural activity in the European Union would contribute to lowering the GDP and loss of jobsin related economic sectors. This pertains mainlytothe agricultural- and food supply chain which depends on the primary agricultural sector as well as to the related non‑food sectors, such as tourism, transport, and the scope of local and public services. The effects of this would reflect in desolation of the space, accelerated depopulationof rural areas, which would result in important environmental and social consequences. Main focus of modern agricultural activity lies on provision of healthy food, self-sufficiency in food, and environmental protection. North-eastern Slovenia is most definitely one of the areas with the highest food production potential, with Podravje and Pomurje whose relief-, climate-and pedology factors are favourable for arable farming and agriculture in general. Conveying the analysis, the focus was on Podravje which corresponds well to two NUTS 3 regions: Koroška SI013 and Podravska SI012 region. Koroška and Podravska regions (hereinafter referred to as Podravje) cover two geographically very different landscapes, namely the Subalpine and sub-Pannonian north-eastern Slovenia. The Subalpine part of Podravje is marked by the hilly relief of Pohorje, the Kozjak with Košenjak, the Strojna and Uršlja gora which, with Peca in the west already make transition into a real Alpine landscape. The results are manifested in relief features but more distinctively in climate- and pedogenetic features. In this area, forest is the predominant type of soil use. Arable areas can be found only in the plain bottoms of the Meža, Mislinja and Drava valleys, and also in some places in the hills where individual farms have been emerging since the Middle Ages due to high-altitude colonisation. The sub-Pannonian part of Podravje comprises of hilly landscapes (Dravinjske gorice, Haloze, Slovenske gorice) and the intermediary alluvial plains (Dravsko polje, Ptujsko polje and Središko polje). In terms of the climate, this is a landscape with a lower level of precipitation and higher temperatures, which is favourable for agriculture and growing some special cultures (viticulture, fruit-growing). It is the sub-Pannonian Slovenia, in addition to Pomurje, which is one of the regions with the highest food-production potential in Slovenia. The fundamental reasons for the retreat of arable land can be identified in building up new areas with service activities (shopping and service centres), building motorways and the associated infrastructure, dispersed individual building and transition of arable areas into overgrowth or forests. Some of the causes for overgrowing arable areas are: unfavourable agricultural policy, abandoning the land due to market conditions and unfavourable age structure of the agricultural population. The positive results of introducing the new common agricultural policy are the changes in average size of agricultural holdings. The number of middle-size and large agricultural holdings is increasing. Introduction of knowledge and new forms of farming helps to improve the quality and the quantity of the products. At the same time, farms are becoming multifunctional and are introducing additional, non-farming activities, which increases their income and affects improvement of living conditions in the rural area. This trend is also shown in the increasing number of farms with known ownership. The crisis in other economic sectors in urban centres affects the migration of population to the rural areas, primarily those with formed infrastructure and good accessibility to urban centres. The conditions vary from one municipality to another. Municipalities which have adapted to changes and were able to take advantage of their human capital as well as their natural resources, experienced fewer negative demographic changes, which also reflected in their respective land use, development and integration between sectors and improved public services. The problems obstructing faster development of Slovenian rural areas are: lack of adequate knowledge, lack of examples of good practice and lack of political will. When it comes to knowledge, the most problematic issue is the insufficient role of geographers and lack of their inclusion in local action groups which are one of the important instruments to implementing the common European agricultural policy.
This chapter discusses the competencies needed by leaders of professional psychology education and training programs. The competencies are in domains similar to those endorsed for the education and ...training of all professional psychologists as noted in the Competency Cube Model (Rodolfa, et al., 2005). However, the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for effective performance in the program director role are more specific and described here. This list of competencies clarifies the role and performance expectations of program leaders and can be used to recruit, screen, and develop candidates for program leader positions.
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