NCJ Number
79028
Date Published
1978
Length
8 pages
Annotation
Strategies for establishing and integrating community-based residential facilities in neighborhoods are outlined, including selection and assessment of a community, low profile and community planning approaches, community incentives, community education, and strategies for resolution of conflict.
Abstract
Understanding the community and the particular neighborhood for the proposed residence is the prerequisite for the successful planning needed to develop an accepted community residence. Each proposed site and community should be evaluated as to its needs and resources before appropriate strategies for working with the community can be determined. In some instances, the community residence may be located in the community anonymously. In a community racially heterogeneous, with a mixture of ages and a highly mobile population, a low-profile approach might be effective. If the prospective site, however, is in a neighborhood where its citizens could easily organize to make a collective response or is in a small town or a socially cohesive residential community, then intensive community work will probably have to be done before establishing a community residence. Steps that might orient the community positively toward the proposed residence are (1) placing program advisory responsibilities with a neighborhood-based citizens' board, (2) offering incentives to the community for having the residence, (3) creating opportunities for citizens to meet those who will be housed in the residence, (4) involve citizens in the operation of the residence, (5) community education about the policies of the residence, (6) and the use of diplomacy and reason in resolving conflicts between citizens and the residence.