Mary L Ohmer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 146705 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mary L Ohmer |
| NOMBRES | Mary L |
| APELLIDO | Ohmer |
| FIRMA | OHMER M L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 184 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Hope
Advancing Data Justice
The past is prologue
Holding Space
An Empirical Test of Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity
Engage, resist, transform
Community organizing and engagement for social change
Pulling back the curtain on scholarly publishing
Balancing tensions in community work
Conceptualizing Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity Among Longstanding Black Residents
Scholars have increasingly recognized the sociocultural impacts of gentrification on Black residents. However, the gentrification literature lacks a theoretical model on the nuanced ways gentrification socially and culturally displaces longstanding Black residents. Limited attention has been given to factors that moderate social and cultural displacement. This article introduces a Theoretical Model of Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Di…
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement
Gentrification has been identified as a phenomenon that involves impacts on space and place. Particularly, gentrification's social and cultural impacts involve disrupted meanings residents associate with spaces. Although space and place dynamics of gentrification have been well-documented, gentrification research has primarily involved traditional quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. These traditional approaches have not fully…
Collaborations in community-engaged research
This special issue focusing on collaborations between community-engaged scholars and community practice partners, provides a nod to our history, a celebration of current innovative research, and a call to the future. The articles included here convey the richness and complexity of community-engaged research. The authors provide keen insights into the personal, political, and professional challenges that arise when engaging in this kind of researc…
Global crises and hopefulness in community practice
Civic engagement
Youth-Adult Partnerships to Prevent Violence
Youth-adult partnerships in disadvantaged neighborhoods offer a promising approach for preventing community problems such as violence. While they differ slightly from traditional intergenerational programs that involve youth with older adults, they foster similar goals, including promoting relationships, mutual support, and community engagement. A social process called collective efficacy is developed when youth and adults trust one another and w…
Gratitude and introductions from the new Journal of Community Practice Editor Team
A convergence of crises
The lens of community
Community engagement
R U connected? Engaging youth in designing a mobile application for facilitating community organizing and engagement
2021). R U connected? Engaging youth in designing a mobile application for facilitating community organizing and engagement. Journal of Community Practice: Vol. 29, Digital Organizing: Definitions, Applications, Methods and Ethics, pp. 257-279
Examining the Relationship Between Level of Participation in Community Gardens and their Multiple Functions
Participation in community gardens improves health and well-being; however, few studies examine how often individuals need to participate to achieve these outcomes. This study examined the relationship between levels of participation in community gardens and health behaviors, psychological well-being, and perceptions of the community by surveying regular, occasional, and noncommunity garden participants in a disadvantage neighborhood (N = 115). R…
Strategies for Preventing Youth Violence
Objective: The consequences of violence in low-income communities often are extensive, particularly among youth. Prior research demonstrates that communities can prevent violence by developing collective efficacy, which happens when neighbors share norms and values, trust one another, and are willing to intervene to address problems. Despite this evidence, there have been few attempts to translate the theory of collective efficacy into practice. …
Preventing violence in disadvantaged communities
Violence is a critical health issue that compromises the strength of communities and permanently damages the lives of individuals and families. The impact of violence on health and well-being is particularly devastating in disadvantaged and minority communities, leading to negative health outcomes, including premature death. However, research suggests that communities can prevent violence and negative health outcomes by developing collective effi…
Introduction
The Handbook of Community Practice
Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Organizations and Its Relationship to Volunteers' Self- and Collective Efficacy and Sense of Community
Commons, and the Social Work Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Social Work at ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact
Community Gardening and Community Development
Community agriculture and conservation initiatives have become increasingly important components of sustainable community development strategies, particularly in disadvantaged neighborhoods. This study examines a community conservation program whose goal was to foster revitalization through the establishment of floral and vegetable gardens primarily in distressed areas. Respondents indicated that the program contributed to revitalizing neighborho…
How Theory and Research Inform Citizen Participation in Poor Communities
The engagement of residents in poor, disadvantaged communities has been a focus of social work practice since the early part of the twentieth century. In the person:environment configuration, a renewed appreciation is building for community-level factors in human behavior and functioning. Poor neighborhoods are transactional settings that can negatively impact human behavior and development. However, active citizen participation can positively im…
Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Organizations in Poor Communities and its Relationship to Neighborhood and Organizational Collective Efficacy
Collective efficacy describes residents' perceptions regarding their ability to work with their neighbors to intervene in neighborhood issues to maintain social control and solve problems. This study examines whether citizen participation in neighborhood organizations located in poor communities is related to neighborhood and organizational collective efficacy among residents. The results indicate that the more residents participated in their nei…
Strategies for Preventing Neighborhood Violence
Neighborhood violence has profound effects on issues associated with social work practice, such as health, safety, and the positive development of children, youth, and families. This article brings together the literatures in criminology and public health that examine violence and social work's history in community practice to develop violence prevention strategies. One important concept from the criminology and public health literatures is colle…
Community engagement
Strategies for Preventing Youth Violence
Objective: The consequences of violence in low-income communities often are extensive, particularly among youth. Prior research demonstrates that communities can prevent violence by developing collective efficacy, which happens when neighbors share norms and values, trust one another, and are willing to intervene to address problems. Despite this evidence, there have been few attempts to translate the theory of collective efficacy into practice. …
Using Photovoice to Empower Youth and Adults to Prevent Crime
Photovoice empowers residents to use photographs to identify neighborhood concerns. Although Photovoice has been used to facilitate dialogue and action among residents to address a variety of issues, including neighborhood crime, it has not been used as part of an intervention to promote collective efficacy. This project integrated Photovoice into a crime-prevention program the goal of which was to facilitate collective efficacy, which. in turn, …
Preventing Violence in Low-Income Communities
The violence found in low-income communities, including areas of concentrated poverty, is often extensive and can involve illegal drugs, juvenile delinquency, and even homicide. A large body of research has emerged which points to the positive effects of informal social control and social capital in preventing violence in lowincome communities, including neighbors taking leadership roles by intervening themselves. This article contains a descript…
Collaborations in community-engaged research
This special issue focusing on collaborations between community-engaged scholars and community practice partners, provides a nod to our history, a celebration of current innovative research, and a call to the future. The articles included here convey the richness and complexity of community-engaged research. The authors provide keen insights into the personal, political, and professional challenges that arise when engaging in this kind of researc…
Preventing violence in disadvantaged communities
Violence is a critical health issue that compromises the strength of communities and permanently damages the lives of individuals and families. The impact of violence on health and well-being is particularly devastating in disadvantaged and minority communities, leading to negative health outcomes, including premature death. However, research suggests that communities can prevent violence and negative health outcomes by developing collective effi…
The Relationship Between Citizen Participation and Organizational Processes and Outcomes and the Benefits of Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Organizations
A major resource of neighborhood organizations is the voluntary participation of residents who give their time and energy to improve their communities. In recent years, there has been a revitalization of strategies to engage residents to volunteer for neighborhood-based organizations. Guided by organizational empowerment theory and the ecological perspective, the current study examined the relationship between citizen participation and organizati…
The relationship between members' perceptions of their neighborhood organization and their involvement and perceived benefits from participation
A major resource of small voluntary neighborhood organizations is their members, who give their time and energy to the organization to improve their community. In recent years, there has been a revitalization of strategies that focus on engaging residents to volunteer for neighborhood‐based organizations. The current study was guided by organizational empowerment theory and explored the relationship between resident members' perceptions of their …
R U connected? Engaging youth in designing a mobile application for facilitating community organizing and engagement
2021). R U connected? Engaging youth in designing a mobile application for facilitating community organizing and engagement. Journal of Community Practice: Vol. 29, Digital Organizing: Definitions, Applications, Methods and Ethics, pp. 257-279
Assessing and Developing the Evidence Base of Macro Practice Interventions with a Community and Neighborhood Focus
Assessing and developing the evidence base of macro practice with a community and neighborhood focus is challenging because of the lack of rigorous studies, difficulties posed by conducting research at the community level, and lack of evaluation capacity at multiple levels of practice. Current evidence on community interventions is summarized. Resources for assessing community interventions are presented, along with strategies for searching, appr…
The lens of community
Examining the Relationship Between Level of Participation in Community Gardens and their Multiple Functions
Participation in community gardens improves health and well-being; however, few studies examine how often individuals need to participate to achieve these outcomes. This study examined the relationship between levels of participation in community gardens and health behaviors, psychological well-being, and perceptions of the community by surveying regular, occasional, and noncommunity garden participants in a disadvantage neighborhood (N = 115). R…
Why You Should Care About the Threatened Middle Class
In the last two decades, the income and security of the individual middle class worker has declined and the gap between the middle class and the wealthy has widened. We explain how this is bad for democracy, the economy, and the aggregate health of the nation. We examine the governmental policies and interventions that increased the middle class following the depression and maintained its vigor through the post-World War II period. The impetus fo…
An Empirical Test of Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity
Community organizing and engagement for social change
Global crises and hopefulness in community practice
Civic engagement
The Handbook of Community Practice
The Effectiveness of Community Practice Interventions
Objective: Evidence-based practice is becoming increasingly important in social work and community practice. The authors reviewed existing research to assess the level of evidence available to guide community practice. Method: The authors conducted a review of the literature on community practice intervention research from 1985 to 2002 using several databases, search engines, and personal contact with researchers. The authors found 269 articles p…
Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Organizations in Poor Communities and its Relationship to Neighborhood and Organizational Collective Efficacy
Collective efficacy describes residents' perceptions regarding their ability to work with their neighbors to intervene in neighborhood issues to maintain social control and solve problems. This study examines whether citizen participation in neighborhood organizations located in poor communities is related to neighborhood and organizational collective efficacy among residents. The results indicate that the more residents participated in their nei…
Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Organizations and Its Relationship to Volunteers' Self- and Collective Efficacy and Sense of Community
Commons, and the Social Work Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Social Work at ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact
Assessing and Developing the Evidence Base of Macro Practice Interventions with a Community and Neighborhood Focus
Assessing and developing the evidence base of macro practice with a community and neighborhood focus is challenging because of the lack of rigorous studies, difficulties posed by conducting research at the community level, and lack of evaluation capacity at multiple levels of practice. Current evidence on community interventions is summarized. Resources for assessing community interventions are presented, along with strategies for searching, appr…
The Relationship Between Citizen Participation and Organizational Processes and Outcomes and the Benefits of Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Organizations
A major resource of neighborhood organizations is the voluntary participation of residents who give their time and energy to improve their communities. In recent years, there has been a revitalization of strategies to engage residents to volunteer for neighborhood-based organizations. Guided by organizational empowerment theory and the ecological perspective, the current study examined the relationship between citizen participation and organizati…
The relationship between members' perceptions of their neighborhood organization and their involvement and perceived benefits from participation
A major resource of small voluntary neighborhood organizations is their members, who give their time and energy to the organization to improve their community. In recent years, there has been a revitalization of strategies that focus on engaging residents to volunteer for neighborhood‐based organizations. The current study was guided by organizational empowerment theory and explored the relationship between resident members' perceptions of their …
Inequality and Its Discontents
In the last two decades, the income and security of the individual middle class worker has declined, and the gap between the rich and the poor has widened. In contrast to the last twenty years and the "gilded age" that preceded it, from the time of the first New Deal through the 1970s, the middle class prospered. Wealth and income were more equitably shared in America. This article examines policies that strengthened the middle class during the N…
Community Gardening and Community Development
Community agriculture and conservation initiatives have become increasingly important components of sustainable community development strategies, particularly in disadvantaged neighborhoods. This study examines a community conservation program whose goal was to foster revitalization through the establishment of floral and vegetable gardens primarily in distressed areas. Respondents indicated that the program contributed to revitalizing neighborho…
Why You Should Care About the Threatened Middle Class
In the last two decades, the income and security of the individual middle class worker has declined and the gap between the middle class and the wealthy has widened. We explain how this is bad for democracy, the economy, and the aggregate health of the nation. We examine the governmental policies and interventions that increased the middle class following the depression and maintained its vigor through the post-World War II period. The impetus fo…
Preventing Violence in Low-Income Communities
The violence found in low-income communities, including areas of concentrated poverty, is often extensive and can involve illegal drugs, juvenile delinquency, and even homicide. A large body of research has emerged which points to the positive effects of informal social control and social capital in preventing violence in lowincome communities, including neighbors taking leadership roles by intervening themselves. This article contains a descript…
How Theory and Research Inform Citizen Participation in Poor Communities
The engagement of residents in poor, disadvantaged communities has been a focus of social work practice since the early part of the twentieth century. In the person:environment configuration, a renewed appreciation is building for community-level factors in human behavior and functioning. Poor neighborhoods are transactional settings that can negatively impact human behavior and development. However, active citizen participation can positively im…
Strategies for Preventing Neighborhood Violence
Neighborhood violence has profound effects on issues associated with social work practice, such as health, safety, and the positive development of children, youth, and families. This article brings together the literatures in criminology and public health that examine violence and social work's history in community practice to develop violence prevention strategies. One important concept from the criminology and public health literatures is colle…
Introduction
The Handbook of Community Practice
The Lobbying Strategies Handbook
Libby and Associates provide a very thorough systematic process for influencing current social policy issues affecting children, families, and communities, such as health care reform, illegal immig
Using Photovoice to Empower Youth and Adults to Prevent Crime
Photovoice empowers residents to use photographs to identify neighborhood concerns. Although Photovoice has been used to facilitate dialogue and action among residents to address a variety of issues, including neighborhood crime, it has not been used as part of an intervention to promote collective efficacy. This project integrated Photovoice into a crime-prevention program the goal of which was to facilitate collective efficacy, which. in turn, …
Strategies for Preventing Youth Violence
Objective: The consequences of violence in low-income communities often are extensive, particularly among youth. Prior research demonstrates that communities can prevent violence by developing collective efficacy, which happens when neighbors share norms and values, trust one another, and are willing to intervene to address problems. Despite this evidence, there have been few attempts to translate the theory of collective efficacy into practice. …
Preventing violence in disadvantaged communities
Violence is a critical health issue that compromises the strength of communities and permanently damages the lives of individuals and families. The impact of violence on health and well-being is particularly devastating in disadvantaged and minority communities, leading to negative health outcomes, including premature death. However, research suggests that communities can prevent violence and negative health outcomes by developing collective effi…
Examining the Relationship Between Level of Participation in Community Gardens and their Multiple Functions
Participation in community gardens improves health and well-being; however, few studies examine how often individuals need to participate to achieve these outcomes. This study examined the relationship between levels of participation in community gardens and health behaviors, psychological well-being, and perceptions of the community by surveying regular, occasional, and noncommunity garden participants in a disadvantage neighborhood (N = 115). R…
R U connected? Engaging youth in designing a mobile application for facilitating community organizing and engagement
2021). R U connected? Engaging youth in designing a mobile application for facilitating community organizing and engagement. Journal of Community Practice: Vol. 29, Digital Organizing: Definitions, Applications, Methods and Ethics, pp. 257-279
Youth-Adult Partnerships to Prevent Violence
Youth-adult partnerships in disadvantaged neighborhoods offer a promising approach for preventing community problems such as violence. While they differ slightly from traditional intergenerational programs that involve youth with older adults, they foster similar goals, including promoting relationships, mutual support, and community engagement. A social process called collective efficacy is developed when youth and adults trust one another and w…
Gratitude and introductions from the new Journal of Community Practice Editor Team
A convergence of crises
The lens of community
Sociology (29 obras) · Political science (27 obras) · Psychology (19 obras) · Public relations (18 obras) · Community Health and Development (15 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Medicine (11 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Community practice (10 obras) · Economic growth (10 obras)