The 1990s saw a resurgence of interest in community development initiatives targeting poor and disadvantaged communities. That resurgence involves at least one major assumption: that involving residents -- both adults and youth -- creates community ownership and increases grassroots participation in ways that will ultimately lead to stronger, more sustainable initiatives. This report examines the development of resident involvement strategies in eight sites participating in P/PV's Community Change for Youth Development (CCYD) initiative and Plain Talk, The Annie E. Casey Foundation's initiative to prevent teen pregnancy (which P/PV evaluated). The authors identify three stages of resident involvement observed across all eight sites; document the ways in which residents contributed to the local site activities; and discuss the challenges of resident governance strategies.
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- Surdna Foundation
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- Commonwealth Fund
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
- Altman Foundation
- Booth Ferris Foundation
- Charles Hayden Foundation
- Pinkerton Foundation
- U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
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- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
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