Kiwis and kids, communities and connections

The lessons of energy express on bridging policy and community discourse

Bibliographic Data

ID11044657
AuthorsGretchen Butera (West Virginia University, corresponding author), Van Dempsey (West Virginia University), Van O Dempsey
Year1999
Volume27
Issue5
Pages599-614
Publication date1999-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-4392 • E-ISSN: 1520-6629
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/(sici)1520-6629(199909)27:5<599::aid-jcop7>3.0.co;2-s
OpenAlexW2023346495
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

Intervention programs for low-income children and families must work to connect the policies and practices of intervention to the communities that they intend to serve. This article describes Energy Express, a summer reading and nutrition program for children in low-income communities across the state of West Virginia. Energy Express has consistently demonstrated beneficial effects in maintaining and improving children's reading and in increasing collaboration between schools and other community organizations. The success of the program in each community is attributed in part to the ways in which the program acknowledges and values local knowledge, the purposeful tension between centralization of planning and purpose and localization in implementation, and the understanding of the multiple meanings of community. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Bridging (networking) · Community organization · Energy (signal processing) · Intervention (counseling) · Political science · Public relations · Reading (process) · Sociology · Work (physics) · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Engineering · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology

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