Maxine Jacobson, Ph.D.
Email: maxjacobson@bresnan.net
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Maxine Jacobson, Ph.D., is the founder and director of PRAXIS – Generating Knowledge for Action. Her work consists of conducting community-based participatory research, consulting with communities and organizations on designing models and implementing strategies for community and program evaluation, and educating community groups on topics that include community organizing, community-based participatory research, project and program evaluation, and interorganizational team and coalition development. She is an independent researcher and scholar affiliated with the School of Social Work at the University of Montana as a Research Associate Professor. She has taught courses across the social work curriculum to include community-based participatory research, program evaluation, community organizing, and social group work. In 2003-2004, she co-facilitated the Missoula County Community Food Assessment as a joint venture with the Environmental Studies Program and completed the Finding Solutions to Food Insecurity project in Missoula County in the fall of 2007, a two-year, community-based participatory research study funded by the USDA. Project reports can be found at http://www.umt.edu/cfa/ Dr. Jacobson is a consultant on two USDA Community Food Solution grants assisting communities with community coalition development and local food assessments and to the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana on the development of an evaluation framework for Montana’s State Substance Abuse Strategic Plan. She serves on the Board of the Missoula Community Co-op and is on the advisory board of the Montana State Food Security Coalition. Professional affiliations include the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, the National Community Food Security Coalition, the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, the Association for Community Organizers and Social Administration, and the Social Welfare Alliance. She is co-author of Just Practice: A Social Justice Approach to Social Work and has authored journal articles for Social Work with Groups, the Journal of Community Practice, Social Work, Child Welfare, the Journal of Poverty Research, Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, and the Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work. She has presented on her work nationally and internationally.
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