Increasing rent prices have left many families struggling to make ends meet, fearing homelessness or displacement.
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The USC Price Center for Social Innovation brings an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach to social innovation research. Through relevant, rigorous research, Price Center faculty explore a variety of topics that seek to inform and advance new models of equity and opportunity for low-income children and families.
Caucuses in Collaborative Governance: Modeling the Effects of Structure, Power, and Problem Complexity
International Journal of Public Management
Year: 2014
Collaborative governance forums involving many diverse stakeholders sometimes use caucuses to facilitate deliberation of the complex issues they face. However, given the paucity of research on this topic, a better theoretical understanding of the conditions under which a caucus structure … Continue reading
Does the Network Centrality of Government Actors Matter? Examining the Role of Government Organizations in Aquaculture Partnerships
Review of Policy Research
Year: 2014
The growth in the use of collaborative governance arrangements has been accompanied by burgeoning scholarship in the field of public affairs that seeks to understand the benefits of engaging diverse stakeholders in common venues. However, few scholars have formally assessed … Continue reading
Integrating Public Health, Community Development, and Civic Engagement to Tackle Neighborhood Distress and Promote Community Well-being
Health Affairs
Year: 2014
Recently there have been calls for public health to reconnect to urban planning in ways that emphasize the impact of place on health and that address fundamental causes of poor health, such as poverty, social inequality, and discrimination. Community developers … Continue reading
Interagency Collaborative Teams for Capacity Building to Scale-Up Evidence-Based Practice
Children & Youth Services Review
Year: 2014
System-wide scale up of evidence-based practice (EBP) is a complex process. Yet, few strategic approaches exist to support EBP implementation and sustainment across a service system. Building on the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (EPIS) implementation framework, we developed and … Continue reading
Collaboration, Negotiation, and Coalescence for Interagency-Collaborative Teams to Scale-up Evidence-Based Practice
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Year: 2014
Implementation and scale-up of evidence-based practices (EBPs) is often portrayed as involving multiple stakeholders collaborating harmoniously in the service of a shared vision. In practice, however, collaboration is a more complex process that may involve shared and competing interests and … Continue reading