Jason Paltzer and Keyanna Taylor describe the opportunities to strengthen the evidence coming from faith-based health organizations to improve outcomes and credibility. Meeting the financial and design knowledge of organizations to conduct and disseminate research is critical to increasing impact in community health ministry
The Public Health, Religion, and Spirituality Network is a great place to find additional researchers in public health interested in measuring spiritual factors important for public and population health.
The presence and power of gangs in Central America and other countries make transformational development strategies increasingly difficult as well as dangerous. For more than thirty years, development practitioner David Bueno has witnessed the growth and spread of gangs in communities where legitimate and constructive social institutions have gradually disappeared or been marginalized, leaving affected communities increasingly isolated. Pentecostal churches are among the few remaining social institutions, but they too are increasingly affected by gang-related dynamics.
The Public Health, Religion, and Spirituality Network is a great place to find additional researchers in public health interested in measuring spiritual factors important for public and population health.
Christian Family Solutions together with the mental health sub-committee of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod is seeking a decision matrix for determining scales, instruments, and measures for determining the influence of faith in Christian mental health programs. The project will consist of a thorough systematic review of the literature to identify instruments, categorizing them based on pre-determined criteria, and developing a decision matrix for identifying specific measures for different programs.
The Vulnerable Children’s Fund in Zambia initiated a lunch program three days a week between July to November. The study will evaluate the effect of the lunch program on physical, social, and spiritual health among the children and teachers.
Meros is developing a faith-based recovery model for rural central Africa. Project Background In cooperation with the University of Zambia, we will test an adapted
Kingdom Workers is investigating the opportunity to equip churches to enter into effective partnerships with domestic violence shelters as a direct way to holistically support
Resilient Recovery and the Chalmers Center for Economic Development partnered together to study the impact of combining both curricula to support individuals in recovery. This
Can a youth-designed, faith-based intervention be a successful complement to the existing school-based SRH curriculum in reducing the incidence of teen pregnancy and STIs and increasing demonstration of positive values-based behaviors?
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