Utilizing a community capitals framework to assess a public health intervention: Application of the CD+SI toolkit

Catherine E. Sanders, Nekeisha L. Randall, Alexa J. Lamm and Kevan W. Lamm

Community Development, 2024, vol. 55, issue 2, 224-245

Abstract: This paper represents an effort to apply a mixed-method design and instrument, the Community Diagnostics and Social Impact (CD+SI) Toolkit, to the evaluation of one rural community within a federally-funded public health project, Healthier Together Lambert (HTL). The CD+SI is an operationalization of the Community Capitals Framework which helps practitioners capture stocks of various capitals within a community throughout the development of a project. The current study examined the capitals present in the community and how the public health project impacted extant capitals within the community. The CD+SI Toolkit allowed researchers to determine the extent to which the HTL project impacted extant community capitals. Participants rated social capital the highest, followed by political, built-financial, natural, cultural, and human capitals. Conceptual and methodological implications for practice are discussed, specifically the inclusion of mixed methods to capture the uniqueness and context of rural spaces for community development practice.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2023.2214802

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