Prevention Dialogues

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Prevention Dialogues

• Urban Environment
• February 14, 2007

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Dialogue
dialogue or dialog Pronunciation Key   n.
1. A conversation between two or more people.
v. dialogued, or dialoged dialoguing, or
dialoging dialogues or dialogs v. tr. To
express as or in a dialogue. v. intr. 1. To
converse in a dialogue. 2. To engage in an
informal exchange of views
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Urban Environments

• This dialogue will be a web-based discussion
  focused on the implementing prevention strategies
  across densely populated resource rich
  environments

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What is urban?

• Urban culture is the culture of cities. Cities
  all over the world, past and present, have
  behaviors and cultural elements that separate
  them from otherwise comparable rural areas.
• Urban also implies a greater availability of
  cultural resources (such as art, theatre, events,
  etc) as compared to suburban or rural areas.

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Urban cities across US 1990

• In thousands
• Average population per square mile

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Densely populated cities inWashington State
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Defining factors of urban environments

• Social/diversity factors such as
• race,
• class,
• gender,
• lifestyle,
• economics,
• culture,
• politics
• Globalism
• suburbanization,
• multi-centered regions

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Programmatic Implications

• Broad Based Approaches
• Cost effective
• Work well for commonality
• Standardization

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Bell Curve
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Implications for services

• Specificity of services
• Cultural
• Ethnicity
• Racial/Ethnicity
• Neighborhood
• etc

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One size fits most?
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Whats working for you now?
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Whats challenging?
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Other issues to discuss?
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What do you want WCSAP to know?
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Evaluations

• You will receive link to complete the evaluation
  as you log out

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Questions, Thought, Comments ?

• Lydia Guy
• lydia_at_wcsap.org
• [phone]