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Title: Assessing Convergence of Community Benefit Programs and Community Health Needs Among North Carolina's Tax-Exempt Hospitals
Author: Fos, Elmer
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Government policy, Health services administration
Description: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires tax-exempt hospitals to conduct Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) every three years, formulate implementation strategies, and report yearly to the IRS and the public the progress of their work. Th...

Title: Building Healthy Communities: An Exploration of a Place-based Initiative, Participant Characteristics, and Preliminary Outcomes
Author: Tynan, Jacqueline
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Public health, Psychology
Description: Decades of discriminatory housing policies have resulted in geographic segregation, forcing low-income minorities into areas of concentrated poverty (Massey & Kanaiaupuni, 1993; Stoloff, 2004). Areas of concentrated poverty are typically marked by...

Title: Determining Children’s ‘Best Interests’ in High-conflict Custody Cases: Examining Program Processes in Custody Advocacy
Author: Salim, Khalil
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: In recent years, family courts have made increasing use of advisors and/or advocates (e.g., forensic psychologists, social workers, best interest attorneys, guardian ad litems, etc.) in determining outcomes in child custody disputes. Evidence sugg...

Title: Equipping parents to support their children’s education: The effects of Charlotte Bilingual Preschool’s Family Program
Author: Gadaire, Andrew
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Psychology
Description: Charlotte Bilingual Preschool’s Family Program aims to equip parents to support their children’s education at home and at school by increasing parents’ educational engagement, promoting parenting best practices, developing families’ social capital...

Title: Examining the Reliability and Validity of the Second Version of the Vulnerability Index-Service Prioritization Decision Tool (VISPDAT) for Single Adults
Author: Salim, Khalil
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Psychology
Description: Many communities use the Vulnerability Index-Service Prioritization Decision Tool (VI-SPDAT) to determine which individuals and/or households experiencing homelessness are most vulnerable and therefore prioritized for the limited housing resources...

Title: Museums in Peril: An Exploration of the Effects of Neoliberalism on History Museums in North Carolina, 1980-2020
Author: Dains, Shelby
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Museums--Study and teaching
Description: Museums in the United States first witnessed the effects of neoliberalism during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, when he worked with Congress to impose unprecedented budget cuts on the NEH. However, these economic practices have since trickled down to...

Title: Nature and Public School Students: Examining the Link between Academic Functioning and School Nature
Author: Scott, Jennifer
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, City planning, Social sciences
Description: Although research has demonstrated that nature exposure (i.e., environments with natural features such as vegetation or greenspace) has the potential to improve individuals’ psychological and physical well-being, little research has investigated p...

Title: Predicting youth adjustment following service discharge in a system of care
Author: Scott, Jennifer
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mental health, Behavior therapy
Description: Systems of Care (SOC) have demonstrated modest benefits for youth with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances; however, it is uncertain that youth benefit more when they receive treatment in a SOC relative to traditional treatment. Although...

Title: The Nature and Dimensionality of Repetitive Thought
Author: Greene, Taryn
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Background: Current popular conceptualizations of the psychological process Repetitive Thought (RT) appear of limited accuracy due to construct confusion (i.e., equating RT with other similar constructs like rumination or worry), possible construc...

Title: The School Environment Project: Measuring Key Elements of School Climate and Culture in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Author: Godly-Reynolds, Erin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Education
Description: Previous research has investigated the school context using conceptualizations of two constructs, school culture and school climate, that appear to overlap and contain measurement flaws, limiting their utility in applied research settings. To impr...

Title: They said what? How to communicate effectively with advocates
Author: Strompolis, Melissa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Political science, Psychology
Description: With effective communication, nonprofit organizations engaged in policy and advocacy work can have a positive impact on the constituents served by the organization, on the advocates working with the organization, and on social issues in general. E...