Partnerships For Vitalizing Communities And Neighborhoods: Celebrating a "Return"!

Authors

Linwood H. Cousins, Western Michigan University

Abstract

In 1994, ten community and university partnerships joined the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to develop training strategies that would improve social systems and better serve families and neighborhoods. The partnerships and training strategies were to be based on what the Foundation refers to as the "assets model"- or seeing the strengths and assets of families and neighborhoods, rather than their deficits, as the primary building block for social systems (Parsons, 1997). Called the "W. K. Kellogg Foundation Families and Neighborhoods Initiative, Community/ University Partnerships," according to Beverly Parsons, a program evaluator, "Funding is provided for sites to demonstrate that partnerships can indeed be formed among community-based organizations and institutions of higher education to work on critical issues in the area of inservice and preservice education" (Parsons, 1997, p. 1).

Recommended Citation

Cousins, Linwood H. (1998) "Partnerships For Vitalizing Communities And Neighborhoods: Celebrating a "Return"!," The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 25: Iss. 1, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.2469
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol25/iss1/5