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Health Promot Int. 2014 Mar;29(1):26-37. doi: 10.1093/heapro/dat035. Epub 2013 Jun 5.
The Raising Sexually Healthy Children (RSHC) program is a peer-to-peer leadership training program for immigrant parents in Toronto, Canada. It was established in 1998 with the goal of promoting family sex education and parent-child communication. This evaluative study examined the developmental processes and outcomes of the RSHC program to identify the strengths, challenges and insights that can be used to improve the program. It employed a multi-case study approach to compare the RSHC programs delivered in the Chinese, Portuguese and Tamil communities. Data collection methods included focus groups, individual interviews and document analysis. The cross-case analysis identified both common and unique capacity building processes and outcomes in the three communities. In this paper, we report factors that have enhanced and hindered sustainable capacity building at the individual, group/organizational and community levels, and the strategies used by these communities to address challenges common to immigrant families. We will discuss the ecological and synergetic, but time-consuming processes of capacity building, which contributed to the sustainability of RSHC as an empowering health promotion program for immigrant communities. We conclude the paper by noting the implications of using a capacity building approach to promote family health in ethno-racial-linguistic minority communities.
“培养性健康儿童（RSHC）”计划是加拿大多伦多的一个针对移民父母的同伴领导培训计划。该计划成立于 1998 年，旨在促进家庭性教育和亲子沟通。本评估性研究考察了 RSHC 计划的发展过程和结果，以确定可用于改进该计划的优势、挑战和见解。它采用多案例研究方法，比较了在中国、葡萄牙和泰米尔社区提供的 RSHC 计划。数据收集方法包括焦点小组、个人访谈和文件分析。跨案例分析确定了三个社区中共同和独特的能力建设过程和结果。在本文中，我们报告了增强和阻碍个人、团体/组织和社区各级可持续能力建设的因素，以及这些社区为应对移民家庭共同面临的挑战而采取的策略。我们将讨论能力建设对增强移民社区权能的健康促进计划的可持续性的生态和协同但耗时的过程。最后，我们注意到在族裔、种族和语言少数群体社区中使用能力建设方法促进家庭健康的意义。
