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COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD SUPPORTS

CBPHP Community and Neighborhood Support is a byproduct, extension and deepening of "Detroit Initiative for Inclusive Communities," a framework for the use of support strategies to improve the quality of life in Detroit neighborhoods. Salient elements and approaches that are incorporated into CBPHP programs are:

  • INCLUSION to ensure attention to the needs and contributions of vulnerable neighborhood and community members.
  • EMPOWERMENT to give neighborhood groups and individual's tangible control and choices in the uses of resources.
  • SUPPORTS at multiple levels to facilitate and make inclusion and empowerment real.
  • COMMUNITY - families and neighborhood groups - as the center of power, skills and energy for community building.

Community and Neighborhood Supports aim at community integration as both means and end towards improvements in the quality of life of individuals and groups: team work to nurture unique individual talents and contributions to build and sustain healthy communities and neighborhoods. General CBPHP activities and technical supports are structured to ensure inclusion and contributions of marginalized groups such as persons with disabilities in the following ways:

  • Programs with primary focus on persons with disabilities but centered around their families and neighborhoods: Independent living and employment for adults with disabilities; Transition from high school to college and/or independent living for young adults with disabilities; quality care for children with special health care needs.
  • Programs that aim at marginalized groups; with and without disabilities: Prevention and Intervention for interpersonal violence among inner city youth; Prevention and Intervention for ATOD, STD and Teenage Pregnancy.
  • CBPHP technical supports for accommodations and inclusion of youth and young adults with disabilities in existing and emerging community programs: City-Wide Recreation and Arts Program; Computer Literacy and GED Preparation; Summer Youth Leadership Academy.
  • Promotion of interagency linkages and communication to streamline supports and other community services.
  • Village to Village programming to foster relationships between Detroit neighborhoods, state, national and international communities and organizations.

Program evaluation services by CBPHP are extended to a range of organizations - local, statewide and national - to support inclusive community building strategies: Detroit Links and Linkages Abstinence Coalition, State of Michigan Department of Health, Skillman Foundation, WSU Department of Community Medicine, U.S. Departments of Education (RSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Ryan White HIV/AIDS Services.

The following are selected CBPHP documents and program reports for Community and Neighborhood Supports:

  • 1. Detroit Initiative for Inclusive Communities: A Proposal for a City - University - Neighborhood Partnership to Build a City for the 21st Century.
  • 2. Neighborhood-Based Personal Supports in the Detroit Empowerment Zone, Third Project Progress Report, 1998.
  • 3. Neighborhood Transition in the Detroit Empowerment Zone, Third and Final Year Grant Performance Report, 2000.
  • 4. Children's Choice of Michigan (CCOM) Member Satisfaction Survey, 2002.
  • 5. Children's Choice of Michigan (CCOM) Year 2003 Member Satisfaction Survey and Responses to Selected SLAITS National Survey Item, 2003.
  • 6. Evaluation Report: Consumer Grand Review Training, 2003.
  • 7. Quality of Managed Health Care Through the Eyes and Voices of Minority Families, Final Report.
  • 8. Report: CCOM Family Member Focus Group on SHPs, 2004.