Community Integration Process Research Articles

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In 1989, Ray Oldenburg coined the term “third place” to describe locations individuals frequent to connect with their local community outside their home and work. Third places add immense value to the local community by fostering social ties, increasing happiness, and fostering a sense of collectivity. Third-place declines have steadily occurred over the past few decades, with a sharp reduction during the Great Recession. This decline primarily affects privately run organizations and food and beverage stores, which often serve as third places, emphasizing the importance of nurturing these community spaces. This paper examines how communicative efforts contribute to community integration in a transient college town, focusing on the role of length of residence and online communication. Focus groups at a local third place found that to expedite the community integration process for temporary residents, third places need to employ overly welcoming communication strategies paired with effective use of social media.

정신장애 당사자의 주거서비스 경험 연구

The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of individuals with mental illness who receive residential services during the process of community integration, and to propose practical measures in this field. To gain a better understanding of the context and significance of using residential services, eight participants who have utilized two or more types of such services, including halfway houses, living facilities, communal living families, and self-reliance experience housing, were selected. Data was collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews and analyzed using a continuous comparison method. The analysis resulted in the identification of 5 categories, 11 patterns, and 31 meanings: ① a vague desire for independence, ② finding a sense of daily life through practical preparation, ③ receiving empowerment from applicants, ④ enduring rewards and punishments, and ⑤ gaining confidence in independence. This study reveals that the experience of housing services for individuals with mental disabilities is a process of realizing the possibility of independence, starting from a vague desire, and driven by strong applicants, while also expanding voluntary housing options. Based on these findings, a housing service plan is proposed to support the community integration process for individuals with mental disabilities

Community Re-integration of a Person with Schizophrenia and Poor Family Support

Community re-integration is an integral part of treating persons with mental illness. Especially in India, presence of family support facilitates the process of community integration. Several initiatives are available now for effective integration for the homeless mentally ill back to their families, people with severe mental illness in the community and long stay in-patients in mental hospitals. However, in the absence of family support and community resources, community re-integration of a person with severe mental illness, like schizophrenia, can be highly challenging. This case reflects the challenges in the process of community re-integration in a person with schizophrenia, who was managed by a multi-disciplinary team at a tertiary care centre in Bengaluru, India. While close monitoring of the case was helpful in maintaining improvement, lack of community resources was one of the major challenges in the process of community re-integration. The case also highlights that if long-stay psychiatric facilities/ hospitals can offer a safe, supportive and stimulating environment, they can be useful to plan effective psychosocial treatments and interventions for community re-integration than just for custodial care.

The Discourse of Patriotism in the Political Process of Modern Russian

The article analyzes the discourse of patriotism in the context of influence of various conflict-­provoking factors in the development of modern Russian political process, with the aim to study technologies for maintaining civil harmony in ethno-­political diversity. A complex range of problems of patriotism as a value phenomenon in the political life of society is being actualized. The procedural nature of the discursive construction of political reality, as well as the axiological content of discourse analysis as a method of political science are substantiated. It is noted that it is the values of patriotism that give special meaning to social action aimed at protecting the interests of one’s country, one’s people and one’s large and small homeland. The aim of the article is to identify the main vectors of transformation of patriotic discourse and the factors that affect the diversity of interpretations of patriotism and the dynamics of conflicting interpretations in political rhetoric in the media space of modern Russia. The article presents the results of the research on the process of destruction and formation of semantic structures that are connected with the attitudes towards one’s country, depending on changes in the subjective factors of patriotic values in society. The object of empirical research is the political discourse of patriotism. The empirical results of the study show the way in which the basic parameters of the state of internal social environment influence the process of community integration and its internal conflicts with regard to patriotic values. In the course of the research, the methods of discourse analysis and of semantic measurement of the ideological and socio-­psychological component of political communication in diversity were tested. Different methods were resorted to analyze expert-­level statements on the Web. The discourse analysis has demonstrated that specific events in and attitudes to historical memory influence transformations in understanding patriotism. In other words, the level of social integration is ensured largely by the policy of historical memory, which determines the nature and level of tolerance in a multi-­ethnic environment and depends on the design of media policy. The conclusions highlight the prospects for such processes and the scientific guidance for further research on the topic.

Social Diversity and Social Interaction: Community Integration and Disintegration in Inner-City

The paper examines the process of community integration and disintegration in two inner-city areas of post-socialist Warsaw and Tallinn which are undergoing a multi-layered social change. The main research problem pertains to the way in which social integration is moulded in transforming and, at the same time, socially diversifying urban areas. The districts under study are characterised by a process of social upgrading which brings inequalities to deprived but dynamically changing environs. The social structures identified evolve in the course of systemic transformation and increasing socio-economic diversification, the latter differentiating the old and new residents of the areas. The analysis looks for potential and actual factors underlying the emergence of new social networks and the persistence of those that were built in the pre-transformation period.

Healthcare professionals' perceptions of the implementation of the transitional discharge model for community integration of psychiatric clients.

Research has demonstrated the benefits of mental healthcare interventions that ensure a safe transition of clients throughout the discharge and community integration process. This paper reports on qualitative data from focus groups with health professionals collected as part of a larger a mixed method study designed to examine the effectiveness and sustainability of implementing the transitional discharge model. Data collection involved two sets of focus groups, which were held at six months and one-year post-implementation. There were 216 health professional participants from nine (9) hospitals across the Province of Ontario, Canada. Data analysis used a four-step ethnographic framework by Leininger (1985) to identify descriptors and recurrent and major themes. The study identified four major themes, including healthcare professionals' roles and positive experiences in implementing the transitional discharge model; perceived benefits of the model; challenges to implementing the model; and suggestions for sustaining the model's implementation. Healthcare professionals felt that the implementation of the transitional discharge model has the potential for increasing their awareness of the process of clients' integration, serving as a framework for discharge planning, and reducing hospital readmissions. The study findings may provide healthcare providers with information on pragmatic ways to plan clients' discharge, to bridge the gap between hospital and community care, and to positively impact client health outcomes.

The East African Court of Justice, Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards and the East African Community Integration Process

AbstractThis article discusses the legal regimes for enforcing foreign arbitral awards within the East African Community (EAC). It focuses specifically on the enforcement of awards from partner states as well as from the East African Court of Justice (EACJ), which, although a supranational court, has jurisdiction to accept parties’ designation to act as an arbitral tribunal. The EAC has not yet developed a supranational community law based regime for enforcing foreign arbitral awards. The current dominant regime for enforcing such awards is the New York Convention. The article examines how the convention has been applied in the partner states and discusses aspects of the existing jurisprudence that demand reconsideration. It examines the suitability of applying the convention regime to awards from the EACJ, and the case for harmonizing the legal regimes for enforcing foreign arbitral awards within the EAC.

Analysis of the East African Community Integration Process as an Opportunity for Uganda’s Medium-to-Long-Term Development

<p><em>This paper reviews the key developments of the EAC integration in a manner that paves way for identifying salient gaps in programming to inform medium-term development planning in Uganda. Specifically, the paper identifies the main achievements and challenges registered by the EAC over the past 10 years; appraises Uganda’s optimism on integration, identifying the country’s efforts to mainstream EAC integration agenda and the benefit</em><em>s</em><em> registered; and recommends measures for accelerating the benefits of integration to Uganda in the medium to long-term.</em><em></em></p><em>Uganda has benefitted immensely from the EAC integration by exploiting its comparative advantage in certain industries, and has registered growth in exports to the region at unprecedented rates. Trade has grown faster than investment in the region. The country has benefitted from joint coordination of programmes and projects facilitating resource mobilisation for priority projects. The key challenges remain the recurrence of non-trade barriers and the low pace of project execution which hinder accelerated registration of benefits. The East African Community development programming provides an opportunity for the government of Uganda to take advantage of the long-term perspective planning to identify areas for joint coordination and execution with the Partner States of the EAC integration.</em>

Ciudades en la Unión Europea. Proceso de integración, Política de Cohesión y gobernanza futura

El proceso de integración y la Política de Cohesión de la Unión de Europea se preocupan, fundamentalmente, por las realidades estatales, protagonistas del proceso. Pero, la búsqueda de un desarrollo armonioso que reduzca las diferencias entre regiones se va abriendo paso en la agenda comunitaria. Desde el propio texto del Tratado de Roma hasta el vigente Tratado de Lisboa, desde el primer documento sobre política regional de 1965, pasando por la creación de los Fondos Estructurales (1989) y de Cohesión (1994), hasta el vigente programa INTERREG V(2014), la Europa de las Regiones ha ido consolidando su posición en la Europa de los Estados. Las ciudades, entes locales y municipios tendrán que esperar hasta 1994, a la estela del Tratado de Maastricht, para lograr un espacio dentro del complejo entramado de la Unión. Desde el primer URBAN (1994) hasta el Pacto de Amsterdam y la Agenda Urbana 2020 (2016), las ciudades han ido ganando protagonismo en la gobernanza multinivel comunitaria. En la actualidad, los retos de la Unión son, en gran parte, los retos a los que se enfrentan sus ciudades. Estamos ante el reto de una Europa de las Ciudades en el marco de una gobernanza glocal.Recibido: 23 enero 2018Aceptado: 29 enero 2018Publicación en línea: 28 marzo 2018

Reunification is Not Enough: Assessing the Needs of Unaccompanied Migrant Youth

Unaccompanied migrant youth enter the United States daily to escape violence, political oppression, extreme poverty, and chronic instability in their native countries, or as victims of human trafficking. While some research has investigated why they leave their home countries, very little is known about what happens to them after they begin the process of community integration. The research reported in this article sought to understand how sponsors of children with no postrelease services access and use community services during their first year of integration into a new U.S. community. Findings highlight the need for a nuanced understanding of family reunification and community integration as dynamic, ongoing processes rather than onetime events, and for services to support such integration.

A community integration strategy based on an improved modularity density increment for large-scale networks

Abstract This paper presents a community integration strategy for large-scale networks, based on pre-partitioning, followed by optimization of an improved modularity density increment Δ D . Our proposed method initially searches for local core nodes in the network, i.e. potential community centers, and expands these communities to include neighbor nodes which have sufficiently high similarity with the core node. In this way, we can effectively exploit the information of the node and structure of the network, to accurately pre-partition the network into communities. Next, we arrange these pre-partitioned communities according to their external connections in descending order. In this way, we can ensure that communities with greater influence are prioritized during the process of community integration. At the same time, this paper proposes an improved modularity density increment Δ D , and shows how to use this as an objective function during the community integration optimization process. During the process of community consolidation, those neighbor communities with few external connections are prioritized for merging, thereby avoiding the fusion errors. Finally, we incorporate global reasoning into the process of local integration. We calculate and compare the improved modularity density increment of each pair of communities, to determine whether or not they should be integrated, effectively improve the accuracy of community integration. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithm can obtain superior community classification results on 5 large-scale networks, as compared with 8 other well known algorithms from the literature.

A Collaborative Action Research about Making Self-Advocacy Videos with People with Intellectual Disabilities

This article presents the results of a collaborative action research conducted with people living with intellectual disabilities (ID) who were going through a community integration process. To be successfully integrated into a community, they need to develop basic life skills as much as they need to learn to use mobile technologies for authentic interactions (Davidson, 2012) and to be self-advocates online (Davidson, 2009a). This study used the Capability Approach pioneered by Sen (1992) and Nussbaum (2000), which focusses on what people can do rather than on their deficiencies. I recruited a group of eight people with ID who wished to set goals, engage in developing new capabilities, share their goals and act as models for others with ID who want to learn to live on their own. In this article, I examine the process of developing self-advocacy videos with mobile technologies using the Capability Approach and I analyze the inventory of capabilities collected through this study. I provide recommendations for intervention through mobile technologies with the long term-goal of helping people with ID to become contributing citizens. I discuss the innovative action research methodology I used to help people with ID become self-advocates and take control of the messages they give through producing their own digital resources.

The East African Community Integration Process and Economic Growth of Member Countries

This study investigated the effects of East African Community integration process on economic growth of member countries. A panel data was used and generalized least square technique employed. The results show that trade within the East African Community has no significant impact on the economic growth of the member countries. However, the Community trade with the rest of the World and foreign direct investment has a significant effect on growth. The finding, therefore, suggests that for the East African Community member countries to benefit fully from the integration process, they need to streamline their custom clearance procedures and standards and establish a single custom territory.

Beyond Dressing and Driving: Using Occupation to Facilitate Community Integration in Neurorehabilitation

AbstractDuring the process of community integration, individuals with acquired brain injury may experience difficulties in all areas of occupational performance including self-care, home management, community access, leisure, social activities and vocational pursuits. Community based rehabilitation services provide opportunities to minimise such difficulties by working with clients as they engage in meaningful real-life context-based occupations. The therapeutic use of occupation is at the core of occupational therapy practice. We reflect on the nature and principles of occupation and highlight particular benefits for facilitating community integration after brain injury. This is illustrated using the example of executive dysfunction. Several challenges for the occupational therapy profession arise from the shift in focus from hospital to community based rehabilitation, and the need for further research on community integration after brain injury from an occupational perspective is recognised.

Trust and Treuhand at the End of the 20th Century. Key Problems and Shift of Interests

Many predict or already see a society in which services have largely overtaken goods in importance. Even if there is some exaggeration to this view major developments in the European Community integration process and in the law and economics movement at least partly confirm this. The key developments in jurisprudence concerning the Treaty of Rome and its liberties have always taken the freedom of goods as a starting point, especially the doctrine of measures having equal effect2 which certainly constitutes the key doctrine of integration on the level of primary Community Law. This trend seems to have been reversed as far as European Community legislation, i.e., secondary Community Law, goes. There has first

Measurement of Adaptive Behavior:

Recent legislation and litigation have focused considerable clinical attention on the social integration of people with handicaps into the community mainstream. Measures of adaptive behavior have played an increasingly important part in this endeavor. They serve two primary functions: classification/placement and program planning/treatment. This paper traces the conceptual origins of adaptive behavior from state residential institutions to its role in the complex process of community integration. A framework for evaluating and selecting adaptive behavior scales is presented along with a review of current trends in measurement. The last section discusses conceptual and methodological issues that presently confront the adaptive behavior field.

Strategic governance: A community integration process

Strategic governance: A community integration process