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SUBMITTER: O'Connor B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6474243 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of community psychology 20131007 8
This exploratory pilot study analyzes the role a facilitated neighborhood intervention, geared towards meeting one's neighbors and discussing local needs and civic action, can play in moving individuals from isolation to community. It focuses on whether NeighborCircles, a neighborhood intervention run by a non-profit in Massachusetts, is associated with increases in social capital (SC); the main constructs used are Perkins and Long's (2002) four dimensions of SC (sense of community (SOC), collec ...[more]