Community involvement in coastal infrastructure adaptation should balance necessary complexity and perceived effort.

Successful adaptation of coastal infrastructure requires public participation, and it is important to elicit accurate feedback from surveys and in-person interactions. But there remains a need for evidence about the efficacy of potential risk communication design metrics. This online experiment (n = 261) sought to understand the necessity of a multifaceted risk perception questionnaire to capture public input.

Community participatory research: student nurses collaborate to reduce lead exposure by educating paint retailers.

Collaboration is a hallmark of the nursing profession as advocated in practice standards and nursing experience. The authors describe a unique experience in which senior students participated in community-based participatory research, working collaboratively with another school, a community organization.

Managing community and neighborhood partnerships in a community-based nursing curriculum.

A community-based undergraduate nursing program in a liberal arts college sought to establish partnerships with area neighborhoods to enhance the educational process of the program and the health of the neighborhoods. With the full financial and emotional support of the college administration, two unique positions were developed within the nursing department: community partnership coordinator (CPC) and neighborhood coordinator. The CPC works at the greater community level with involvement in area-wide community health ventures to provide a liaison to the community for the nursing department.