Silvia L. Vilches

• Ph.D., Urban Planning
• Professor (Associate) at Auburn University

Objective Via a research–practice partnership centering community partners' needs and goals in the research design, we examined how parent, infant, and social‐contextual characteristics relate to shared book reading frequency and perceptions of Reach Out and Read (ROR), a national physician‐to‐family program. Background Shared book reading is asso...

Rural regions struggle to retain early intervention (EI), special education (SE), and early childhood education (ECE) supports for children with developmental delay and/or disability, yet there is little guidance to prepare pre-service students for rural practice. This exploratory scoping review of rural EI/SE/ECE practice in the United States and...

Background: Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is beyond the capacity of any single organisation. The model for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) includes principles of engaging stakeholders and suggests that an engaged, multi-sectoral approach hold promise to mobilise humanity to solve complex and urgent glob...

The purpose of this study was to explore the social networks and interactions between urban producers in Arkansas through a social network analysis. Using a mixed-methods approach, the current study collected data about participants’ social network interactions and methods of seeking information for urban farming. Results indicated how and where pa...

The agency of lone mothers who rely on government income supports is often erased by the discourse of dependency, especially under welfare-to-work eligibility criteria. Here we apply the concept of small acts of micro-resistance in constrained circumstances, augmented by conceptualization of resistance as conscious oppositionality and intentionalit...

Background: Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is beyond the capacity of any single organisation. The principles of engaging stakeholders suggest that an engaged, multi-sectoral approach, such as described in models of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), hold promise to mobilise humanity to solve complex and ur...

Women's entrepreneurship has increased dramatically over the past decades (Hughes, et al.) but entrepreneurship, particularly for women who are mothers, is often described with a balancing metaphor, which positions mothering and business on two sides of a scale. A relational psychology perspective, however, views work within all life contexts, a vi...

Local governments play an integral role in providing public services to their residents, yet the population health benefits are frequently overlooked, especially when services are outside the traditional health domain. With data from the U.S. Census of Governments and national birth records (spanning from 1992 to 2014), we examined whether local go...

In this article we present the critical analysis of a recent methods overview, authored by McCrae and Purssell, as a means to highlight and address several important ambiguities and misunderstandings associated with terminology commonly used to describe sampling in qualitative research. We share several definitive understandings of sampling-related...

en One of the promises of the Canada Health Act is portability—the principle of equitable access to health services wherever you live. Services for young children in northern and rural communities are structured with a one‐size‐fits‐all funding model that inadvertently disadvantages lower population density areas. We use a socio‐cultural approach t...

Community-based partnerships are employed in many fields, from community economic development to international aid. The BC government has emphasized the value of community engagement and partnerships for addressing population health. The report starts with a brief overview of previous reviews of partnerships in mental health and substance use. Then...

This chapter features four graduate students’ stories of their experience of concurrently pursuing doctoral studies in a discipline related to child development and working within the interdisciplinary CHILD Project as research assistants. The stories highlight the insights that the students’ participation in the interdisciplinary, collaborative CH...

In this article we argue that the ‘just city’ is one that enables individuals to exercise their citizenship, including making choices to participate (or not) in communal existence. However, inequities in resource distribution encountered by lone mothers on income assistance threaten not only individual sustenance and survival, but also the foundati...

The British Columbia government introduced sweeping changes to its income assistance program in 2002. Although the changes made life more difficult for everyone on income assistance, lone mothers and their children were particularly hard hit. Lone mothers and their children had to make do with less money to pay for housing (reductions in the shelte...

Literature review published as a precursor to an action research project sponsored by the VP Academic and Provost at the time, Dr. P. Codding. The project, informally titled as the Committee on the Status of Sexual Minorities, conducted interviews and focus groups with gay, lesbian, bisexual, two-spirited, transgender and self-identified queer and...

Provisioning is about providing for the people for whom one feels responsible. It is the work of securing resources and ensuring the necessities of life to individuals and groups with whom one has relationships of responsibility. A pilot project about provisioning, women, and community was completed in 2003 with the students, staff, directors and a...