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Partnerships for Prevention

The Story of the Highfield Community Enrichment Project

by (author) Karen Hayward, Geoffrey Nelson & S. Mark Pancer

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2005
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802080196
    Publish Date
    Nov 2005
    List Price
    $102.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442678286
    Publish Date
    Sep 2005
    List Price
    $99.00

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The Highfield Community Enrichment Project is one of eight demonstration sites for the ‘Better Beginnings, Better Futures’ initiative, a comprehensive, community-driven program dedicated to the prevention of children’s mental health problems in Ontario and the promotion of child, family, and community wellness. Drawing from this multi-method, longitudinal research project, authors Geoffrey Nelson, S. Mark Pancer, Karen Hayward, and Ray DeV. Peters have written Partnerships for Prevention, providing insights and lessons on how prevention programs can be planned, implemented, and managed in a low-income, multicultural context with a high degree of community involvement.

The authors demonstrate not just that the program works, but how it works, and in so doing make a contribution to theory, research, and practice in primary prevention and mental health promotion for children. Partnerships for Prevention provides a great deal of knowledge that will be of interest and use to policy-makers, program planners, practitioners, and community residents, who wish to create prevention programs.

About the authors

Karen Hayward is an independent social research consultant living in Toronto.

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Geoffrey Nelson is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Geoffrey Nelson's profile page

S. Mark Pancer is professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University.

S. Mark Pancer's profile page