Papers on this Site (Read or Download)

Promoting Well-being: Time for a Paradigm Shift in Health and Human Services (Prilleltensky 2005)

Participatory Organizational Change in Community-Based Health and Human Services: From Tokenism to Political Engagement (Bess, Prilleltensky, Perkins & Collins 2009)

Blending Ameliorative and Transformative Approaches in Human Service Organizations: A Case Study (Evans, Hanlin & Prilleltensky 2007)

The Basics: What's Essential about Theory for Community Development Practice (Hustedde & Ganowicz)

Mentally Healthy Communities (Canadian Population Health Initiative 2008)

Organizational Change for Community Well-being (English) (Spanish) - (Evans et al., presentation at Community Health conference held in Gramado, Brazil, October, 2009)

Further Reading

Belfield, C., Levin, H. (Eds.). (2007). The price we pay: Economic and social consequences of inadequate education. Brookings Institution. 

Blueprints for violence prevention. Center for the Study of the Prevention of Violence.

Daniels, N., Kennedy, B., & Kawachi, I. (2000), Justice is Good for Our Health: How greater economic equality would promote public health. Boston Review.

Devine et al, (Eds.). (2004). Youth violence: Scientific approaches to prevention. New York Academy of Science. 

Guerra, N., & Smith, E. (Eds.) (2006). Preventing youth violence in a multicultural society. American Psychological Association. 

MacKellar, T. (2009). Using the SPECS Model to explore new paradigms in health psychology [pdf]. The Australian Community Psychologist. 

Nelson, G., et al. (2005). Partnerships for prevention: The story of the Highfield Community Enrichment Project. University of Toronto Press. 

Prilleltensky, I., Nelson, G., Peirson, L (Eds.). (2002). Promoting family wellness and preventing child maltreatment. University of Toronto Press. 

Prilleltensky, I., & Prilleltensky, O. (2006). Promoting well-being: Linking personal, organizational, and community change. Wiley.

Surgeon General. (2001). Youth Violence.

US Department of Health and Human Services. (2002). What you need to know about youth violence prevention. SAMHSA.

Washington State Institute for Public Policy