Journal article
The power of a collaborative relationship between technical assistance providers and community prevention teams: A correlational and longitudinal study
Evaluation and program planning, Vol.54, pp.19-29
02/2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2015.10.002
PMCID: PMC4666771
PMID: 26476860
Abstract
•We examine the relationship between technical assistance providers and community prevention team leaders.•Higher levels of a collaborative relationship relate to better internal team functioning.•This pattern is found in longitudinal analysis.
Historically, effectiveness of community collaborative prevention efforts has been mixed. Consequently, research has been undertaken to better understand the factors that support their effectiveness; theory and some related empirical research suggests that the provision of technical assistance is one important supporting factor. The current study examines one aspect of technical assistance that may be important in supporting coalition effectiveness, the collaborative relationship between the technical assistance provider and site lead implementer.
Four and one-half years of data were collected from technical assistance providers and prevention team members from the 14 community prevention teams involved in the PROSPER project.
Spearman correlation analyses with longitudinal data show that the levels of the collaborative relationship during one phase of collaborative team functioning associated with characteristics of internal team functioning in future phases.
Results suggest that community collaborative prevention work should consider the collaborative nature of the technical assistance provider – prevention community team relationship when designing and conducting technical assistance activities, and it may be important to continually assess these dynamics to support high quality implementation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The power of a collaborative relationship between technical assistance providers and community prevention teams: A correlational and longitudinal study
- Creators
- Sarah M Chilenski - Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, United StatesDaniel F Perkins - The Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, and the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, The Pennsylvania State University, United StatesJonathan Olson - The Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, The Pennsylvania State University, United StatesLesa Hoffman - Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, University of Kansas, United StatesMark E Feinberg - Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, United StatesMark Greenberg - Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, United StatesJanet Welsh - Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, United StatesD. Max Crowley - Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, United StatesRichard Spoth - Partnerships in Prevention Science Institute, Iowa State University, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Evaluation and program planning, Vol.54, pp.19-29
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2015.10.002
- PMID
- 26476860
- PMCID
- PMC4666771
- NLM abbreviation
- Eval Program Plann
- ISSN
- 0149-7189
- eISSN
- 1873-7870
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000026, name: National Institute on Drug Abuse, award: DA013709; DOI: 10.13039/100000027, name: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, award: AA14702; DOI: 10.13039/100000030, name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, award: DP 002279
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2016
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9983993488102771
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