EnsuringEnsuring Safe Families, Neighborhoods, and Safe Families, Neighborhoods, and Communities through Practitioner-Research Communities through Practitioner-Research

PartnershipsPartnerships

C. Chris Payne, Ph.D.September 30, 2010

Mission and ExpertiseMission and Expertise

The Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships builds the

capacity of families, service providers, researchers, teachers, and communities to

ensure the health and well-being of children, bridging research, policy, and

practice.

Benefits of the Research- Benefits of the Research- Practitioner PartnershipsPractitioner Partnerships

• Documenting innovative collaborative processes

• Enhanced understanding of “what works”, and how, why, and when it works

• Informing contributions to academic literature

• Elevating local promising practices among National partners

Action Research in the Action Research in the MDNCMDNC

• Launching the Violent Incident Review: Problem identification in new PSN sites

• Understanding district-wide crime trends across sites

• Documentation, research and preliminary evaluation of promising practices

• Infusing multi-disciplinary expertise to bridge prevention and intervention

Publications and SuccessesPublications and Successes• (Book Chapter) “Added Value through a Partnership model

of Action Research: A Case Example from a Project Safe Neighborhoods Research Partner” The New Criminal Justice: American Communities and the Changing World of Crime Control by Klofas, Hipple, & McGarrell, 2010.

• Eliminating Street-level Drug Markets, NIJ evaluation, 2007 (DMI) publications:– Defining the stages and steps of the strategy– Law enforcement and community partner perspectives– Community norms and narratives– Quantitative and qualitative analyses continuing, 2010

• North Carolina Safe Communities, 2009

Leveraging University PartnershipsLeveraging University Partnerships

• University partners bring various expertise to bear on local efforts: WSSU- UNCG- John Jay College

• CYFCP translates research into meaningful foundations for practitioner action

• CYFCP develops evidence-based models through partner’s promising practice

• Expertise that informs context around outcomes and implementation

Future Directions and Future Directions and OpportunitiesOpportunities

• School-Based Partnerships

• Child and Family Success

• Child Response Initiative

• Reclaiming Futures• DJJDP- SAMHSA,

ACF Initiatives

• Court-based Interventions

• Defending Childhood• Domestic Violence• Positive Youth

Development• Juvenile Justice• Promise

Neighborhoods

ContactContact

C. Chris Payne, Ph.D. Director, Research Associate Professor

Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships

The University of North Carolina Greensboro

Phone: 336.217.9738  e-mail:   ccpayne@uncg.edu

web: www.uncg.edu/csr