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Collection Number: 04802

Collection Title: Leonard H. Dawson Papers,1965-1995.

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Size 12.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1350 items)
Abstract Graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health; served as director of the school's clinical field education program, 1960s-1990s. Collection chronicles health issues explored from the 1960s through the 1990s by Leonard Dawson and public health students. Included are documents related to the planning and execution of field training programs and to ongoing projects and conferences. One of the major projects was the work of Capital Health Systems Agency, an organization created by federal law to promote a health care system which provided quality care at affordable costs. Student analyses of health issues are found in team-written community reports, individual project reports, and master's papers. The community studies and most of the project reports involve organizations and locales within North Carolina and nearby areas and thus are particularly relevant to health issues in North Carolina and the South generally, although some concern other states and foreign countries.
Creator Dawson, Leonard H., 1937-
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Leonard H. Dawson Papers #4802, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Leonard H. Dawson of Chapel Hill, N.C., in May 1996 (Acc. 96040).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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Leonard H. Dawson received his MSPH degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health in 1963. After working as a health educator in the Colbert County, Ala., Health Department, he returned to North Carolina to work for the Chapel Hill public health department. From there, he returned to UNC's School of Public Health where at his retirement in 1996 he was clinical associate professor.

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The papers of Leonard H. Dawson chronicle the activities of the UNC School of Public Health during the years in which Dawson was associated with it, first as a field counselor and later as the director of the school's clinical field education program. It contains papers from the school's advisory committee of the department of health education; papers documenting the planning and execution of field training programs; documents from projects and conferences in which Dawson was involved; student community reports; student project reports; and student master's papers. The Department of Health Education Advisory Committee files, the field training files, and the project and conferences files are of interest both in terms of health issues in specific locales and in terms of the school of public health's program, while the student reports and papers solely concern analysis of health-related issues.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Advisory Committee of Department of Health Education, August 1969-May 1977.

About 200 items.

Arrangement: by type.

Papers related to Dawson's work on the Advisory Committee of the Department of Health Education, a group with members from both inside and outside the school of public health which advised the school on all aspects of its teaching, research, and community service programs. In order to preserve the original ordering of the Papers, the collection retains their division into a section of master files separated into topics and undifferentiated papers which have been organized chronologically by academic year.

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About 100 items.

Arrangement: by type.

The agenda section contains memoranda describing the agenda for meetings of the committee in 1973 and 1974. 'Minutes' are included from meetings ranging from 1970 through 1974. 'Students and faculty' contains student biographies and faculty curricula vitae.

'Curriculum and reading materials' contains a comprehensive examination, a reading list, memorandum on skills necessary for competence in health education, documents required for the field practice and U.S. field seminar, a list of class meetings and topics for a health education practitioner seminar, and an outline of departmental doctoral programs.

Folder 1

Agenda, Minutes, Students & Faculty

Folder 2

Curriculum and Reading Materials

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 2. Field Training Files, January 1965-September 1970.

About 475 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Chiefly memoranda and notes related to school of public health's field training plans, including field counselor's conferences held on campus, and actual field training experiences. There is also some correspondence related to these issues.

Folder 9-10

Folder 9

Folder 10

1965-1966 November 1965 correspondence between Dawson, then an employee of the Colbert County Health Department, and UNC faculty on plans for field training experiences in Alabama. Soon thereafter Dawson changed jobs and there is January 1966 correspondence from Dean W. Fred Mayes of the UNC School of Public Health and to Dawson's new boss, Dr. O. David Garvin, director of the Chapel Hill health department, seeking permission for Dawson to work with two students and to attend the field counselors conference. Other materials related to the conference include notes, memoranda, and a UNC Field Counselors Handbook.

Folder 11a-11b

1966-1967 Outlines of 1967 field experiences in various locations, memoranda concerning opportunities for field training activities in the Chapel Hill health department, and evaluations of the field experience from the counselors and the students.

Folder 12a-12d

1967-1968 Memoranda from Dawson to field counselors inviting them to the February 1968 field training conference, materials related to planning the conference, the 1968 field conference program, a list of field centers and contact people, and conference evaluations from participants.

Folder 13

1968-1969

Folder 14a-14c

1969-1970 Materials related to two local field experience projects. There are memoranda and notes regarding the Parkwood Homeowners' Association and West Hillsborough.

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About 450 items.

Arrangement: by subject.

Materials include notes, correspondence, agenda, and other materials related to various conferences and ongoing projects which Dawson attended or was involved with. The folders are arranged by the name of the project. Generally, the project name gives a good idea of what each project entails.

The Capital Health Systems Agency materials include notes from meetings, drafts of statement on health education for a health systems plan, and an agenda of the agency's public involvement committee. Folder 15i contains a report on an agency board survey by UNC students. Folder 15j contains two reports on the agency's activities, "Representative Accountability and Board and Staff Attitudes as Determinants of Consumer Influence in an HSA" and "A Case Study of Consumer Participation and Influence in an HSA" authored by Dawson and his UNC colleague Allan Steckler.

Folder 15a-15j

Capital Health Systems

Folder 16

Center for Health Planning

Folder 17

Developing Skills in Soft Data Collection

Folder 18

Grants Workshop

Folder 19

Health Education-Mandate for the Eighties

Folder 20

Health Education Risk Reduction Project

Folder 21

Health Planning/Development Center

Folder 22

McDowell County (W.Va.) Health Education Program

Folder 23

Outreach Conference

Folder 24

Plan Development and Implementation of Health Education Services

Folder 25

Practical Training in Health Education

Folder 26a-26b

Public and Consumer Involvement in Health Planning and the Health Policy Process

Folder 27

Rural Health Promotion Resource Center

Folder 28

Serving Underserved Communities

Folder 29

United Nations Development Programme

Folder 30

Wisconsin Community Education Program

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7 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by title.

These are reports written by teams of graduate students analyzing strengths, weaknesses, and needs of individual communities.

Folder 31

Problem Solving at the Neighborhood Level

Folder 32

Apex (Wake County, N.C.): The Community's Perspective

Folder 33

Building Bridges: An Inside Look at Chapel Hill's Public Housing Community

Folder 34

Creedmoor, North Carolina

Folder 35

Morgantown

Folder 36

Prospect Hill: Changes and Challenges

Folder 37

Warren County: A Community Diagnosis

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162 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Field experience reports of graduate students, organized by title. The focus of the project is usually apparent from the title. Most of the project reports involve organizations and locales within North Carolina; a few involve other states and foreign countries.

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27 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by title.

Folder 55

"Bridging the Gap:" A Parent-Teen Communication Conference

Folder 56

"The Creation and Testing of the American Lung Association's Helping Smokers Get Ready to Quit" Manual

Folder 57

The Diabetes Connection

Folder 58

Diversity Now: Increasing Cultural Sensitivity and Diversity

Folder 59

Educational Component for IPM Roach Control in Chapel Hill Public Housing

Folder 60

Expansion of Community Sickle Cell Education through Lay Volunteers Project

Folder 61

Final Report

Folder 62

General Baptist State Convention Strategic Planning Process

Folder 63

HBHE Independent Project

Folder 64

"How to Help Your Patients Stop Smoking:" COMMIT Training Sessions

Folder 65

Independent Project

Folder 66

Individual Project Report

Folder 67

Individual Project Report

Folder 68

Individual Project-Working Report

Folder 69

"Learn Not to Burn:" Smoke Detector Giveaway and Fire Safety Education Program for Durham's Children

Folder 70

Needs Assessment of Cancer Patients at UNC-Hospitals and Its Implications for the Hospital-Based Support Programs

Folder 71

Parent Opportunity Program

Folder 72

Promotional Videotape for the Helping Mothers and Helping Families Programs

Folder 73

Resource Manual for Nutrition Education Activities, Durham County Coordinating Council on Aging

Folder 74

Save Your Face Seatbelt Promotion Project

Folder 75

The Sickle Cell Lay Volunteer Project Facilitator's Guide

Folder 76

Teenage Clients at Chatham County OB/GYN

Folder 77

Thirsty for Change: Jordan Grove Community Water Project

Folder 78

Turning Points for Mothers and Babies of Southeast Raleigh

Folder 79

Views About E-Coding among Personnel at a Small Rural Hospital

Folder 80

Wake Area Health Education Centers

Folder 81

Worksite Health Promotion with LIVE FOR LIFE at Duke: Targeting Departments to Increase Participation

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34 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by title.

Folder 82

AIDS Outreach with Women in Durham County

Folder 83

An Assessment of the Madison Community Health Project's Community Advisory Board

Folder 84

Building a Support Network: Lay Health 1991

Folder 85

Celebrate Our Children: A Rural Health Project

Folder 86

The Child Care Food Program: Intervention Development and Assessment

Folder 87

Child Care Provider Capacitation: The Helping Hands Center, Siler City, N.C.

Folder 88

COMMIT to a Healthier Raleigh's Tobacco Free Youth Project

Folder 89

Creating Sound Educational Materials for the General Public on Domestic Violence

Folder 90

Developing and Testing Pesticide-Related Material

Folder 91

Development of an Evaluation Protocol for Three Durham County Drug Use Prevention Programs for Youth

Folder 92

Enhancing Adherence to an Exercise Program for Elderly Men and Women

Folder 93

Enhancing Clergy Genetic Counseling Skills Project Training Manual

Folder 94

An Ethnographic Description of the Agricultural Workers Safety and Health Committee

Folder 95

The Extent and Effect of AIDS Education Policies in North Carolina Local Education Agencies

Folder 96

Honestly, Let's Talk: A Parent Education Intervention in Randolph County, North Carolina

Folder 97

Hospice Care in Nursing Homes

Folder 98

Improving Self-Care Behaviors in Persons with Diabetes Mellitus through Behavioral Prescriptions: The Impact of a Mailed Newsletter Campaign

Folder 99

Individual Project Executive Summary

Folder 100

Individual Project for Child Care Networks

Folder 101

Meeting the Needs of Homebound Elderly and Caregivers in Wake County, North Carolina

Folder 102

Peer Sexual Health Education Program, Duke University

Folder 103

A Policy Manual for Early Childhood Intervention

Folder 104

Preventing Developmental Delay: Clinic-Based Parent Education, Tri-County Community Health Center, Newton Grove, North Carolina

Folder 105

Primary Care Research: An Intervention to Increase Enrollment Rates of Patients with Dizziness

Folder 106

Promoting and Supporting Breast-Feeding

Folder 107

Promoting Healthy Nutrition and Exercise Habits for Children

Folder 108

Report on Experience at the Institute for Development Training

Folder 109

A Risk Map of Health Factors

Folder 110

The Save Our Sisters Project in New Hanover County, North Carolina

Folder 111

A Social Marketing Strategy to Increase Use of Safety Training for Hazardous Waste Workers

Folder 112

Stress Management Program for the Senior Residents in Chapel Hill/Carrboro Areas

Folder 113

Training Primary Care Providers in Health Effects of Pesticides and Agrochemicals: A Nitrate Education Pilot-Project Under the Auspices of the Agricultural Worker Safety and Health Committee

Folder 114

The Use of Process Consultation within a Nursing Home

Folder 115

A Worksite Intervention to Promote Intentions for Cervical Screening Among Black Women

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26 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by title.

The report for the project housed in folder 129, Making the Video 'Saving Our Sisters: Breaking the Silence About Breast Cancer,' refers to the video which is shelved separately.

Folder 116

The Church Responds to AIDS: A Seminar Series for Clergy Conducted at Duke Divinity School's 1992 Convocation

Folder 117

COMMIT Tobacco and Alcohol Billboard Survey, August 12, 1992

Folder 118

Creating Preoperative Educational Materials for Children and Their Parents

Folder 119

Developing a Patient Handbook Draft at the Duke Family Medicine Center

Folder 120

The Development and Interpretation of a Curriculum to Prevent Dating Abuse Among Adolescents

Folder 121

Development of a Behavioral Assessment Tool and Depression Screen for the Partners In Prevention Study

Folder 122

A Diabetes Education Form: Adoption and Use by Family Practice Physicians

Folder 123

Evaluation and Needs Assessment for Shared Housing Program

Folder 124

Explication of the Strategic Planning Notebook of Lincoln Community Health Center

Folder 125

"Girl Talks:" Project Straightalk, Durham County Health Department, Durham, North Carolina

Folder 126

Increasing Participation of Blue Collar Workers in a Worksite Health Promotion Program

Folder 127

Intervention Plan to Increase Seatbelt use Among Rural Drivers

Folder 128

Johnston County Caregiver Support Group

Folder 129

Lee County Health Department Parenting Classes

Folder 130

Making the Video 'Save Our Sisters: Breaking the Silence About Breast Cancer

Videotape VT-4802/1

Save Our Sisters: Breaking the Silence About Breast Cancer, UNC School of Public Health, 1992

VHS

Folder 131

"Mom-to-Mom" Lay Health Advisor Program

Folder 132

Mothers Offering Mothers Support

Folder 133

A Needs Assessment of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers in Halifax County, North Carolina

Folder 134

Project Straightalk

Folder 135

Promoting Health Promotion: Planning for Collaboration in the West Virginia Bureau of Public Health

Folder 136

Recommendations for Facilitating Bonding between Adolescent Mothers and Their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Infants

Folder 137

The State of the Child Conference in Bladen County

Folder 138

Training for Transformation and AIDS

Folder 139

Training Parenting Class Instructors in Popular Education

Folder 140

Use Your Head for Bike Safety: A Bike Helmet Distribution Program in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School System

Folder 141

We Are All Housekeepers: A Report on the Initial Development of the UNC Housekeepers Association Newsletter

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27 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by title.

Folder 162's Project, Superconfidential Counseling and Testing at Duke University, concerns an HIV program. Included with the report is a cassette recording of an HIV radio program, which is shelved separately.

Folder 142

Camp ReLeaf 1993 Program Report

Audiocassette C-4802/1

HIV radio program recording

Folder 143

COMPLIANCE: Interventions for Spanish Speaking Migrants at Hendersonville's Blue Ridge Community Health Service Clinic

Folder 144

Curbside Recycling in Orange County: A Report on Participation in Three Neighborhoods

Folder 145

Developing a Useful Structure for Evaluation and Program Management in a Health Education Organization

Folder 146

Developing Training Materials for Use with Drug Users in Wake County, North Carolina

Folder 147

The Duke University Condom Availability Report for the Academic Year 1993-1994

Folder 148

Enhancing Cancer Control in a Community Health Center: The Healthy Birthdays Project Provider Training Student Independent Project

Folder 149

Establishing Domestic Violence Services in Vance, Franklin, Granville, and Warren Counties, North Carolina

Folder 150

Final Report for the Duke University Comprehensive Sickle Cell Clergy Genetic Counseling Skills Training Project

Folder 151

Hold Your Fire: A Summer Violence Prevention Program Designed to Reduce Peer Violence and Weapon-carrying among Adolescents in Minneapolis

Folder 152

Independent Project

Folder 153

Independent Project at the Helping Hands Center, Siler City, North Carolina

Folder 154

Independent Project Final Report: Student Health Center, Grimsley High School, Greensboro, North Carolina

Folder 155

Is It Working?: Developing a West Virginia Community Health Promotion Evaluation Guide

Folder 156

Minority Health Forum

Folder 157

An Ounce of Prevention: Injury Prevention and Emergency Preparedness in North Carolina Domiciliary Care Homes

Folder 158

Planning a Mobile Mammography Unit Screening Day

Folder 159

Planning the Teens in Power Teen Conference

Folder 160

The Role of Community Health Promotion-Facilitating the Use of the COPC Model in West Virginia

Folder 161

Senior PharmAssist: A Survey of Medication Prescribers' Attitudes Regarding a Prescription Assistance Program for Durham County's Low-Income Elderly

Folder 162

Southlight, Inc.

Folder 163

"Straight Talk about Breast Cancer:" Facilitating Staff Support

Folder 164

Superconfidential Counseling and Testing at Duke University, Spring 1994

Folder 165

Teaching Bolivian Auxiliary Nurses about Contraception

Folder 166

Wilson County Community Advisor Group Training

Folder 167

Workshops at the Raleigh Correctional Center for Women

Folder 168

World AIDS Day 1993: A Guide to Organizing at UNC

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31 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by title.

Folder 169

Assessment Protocol for Excellence in Public Health: A Formative Evaluation in West Virginia

Folder 170

Child Health Screening: A Project of the Salvation Army Shelter and the Carolina Children's Clinic

Folder 171

Community Outreach Training

Folder 172

Conducting a Needs Assessment of HIV/AIDS in the Migrant Farm Worker Community

Folder 173

The Design and Implementation Plan for a Pediatric Patient-Activation Intervention

Folder 174a

Family Health International and U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association

Folder 174b

U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association Training and Technical Assistance Project: Training of Trainers in Non-formal Education

Folder 175

Final Report

Folder 176

4-H Congress-Delegate to Welcome Activities: Planning an Injury Prevention and Safety Health Fair

Folder 177a-177b

Health Related Jobs in Chapel Hill, Durham, and the Research Triangle Park

Folder 178

An HIV/AIDS Needs Assessment: Santa Barbara County, California

Folder 179

Home Is Where the Hurt Is: A Community-Based Intervention for Church and Civic Groups

Folder 180

Independent Project: Chatham County Health Department

Folder 181

IP Final Report: AIDS Allies, Springfield, Massachusetts

Folder 182

Laying the Foundation for a Volunteer Program

Folder 183

Linkages for Prevention: Recruiting Physicians to Participate in a Multifaceted Project

Folder 184

A Manual for Developing Educational Materials for African American Seasonal Farmworkers

Folder 185

North Carolina Child Labor Policy and Regulatory Reform

Folder 186

Partners: Pulling Together and Moving Forward

Folder 187

"Pen Pals in Caring:" A Letter-Writing Network for Caregivers of Alzheimer's Patients

Folder 188

A Physical Fitness Interest Survey for Local Fitness Councils in North Carolina

Folder 189

Piecing Respite Together

Folder 190

Recruiting Migrant Farmworkers for Lay Health Advisor Programs: A Basic Approach to Recruitment

Folder 191

A Report on Improving Condom Distribution at Fort Stewart, Georgia

Folder 192

Safe Babies and Effective Parents: A Home Visiting Approach

Folder 193

The Safer Sex Peer Counseling Workshop for Durham Teens

Folder 194

A Step by Step Guide to Develop a Community Walking Trail

Folder 195

Step One!: An Independent Project with the Center for Peace Education

Folder 196

Summary of Findings and Recommendations for Improvement Based on a Needs Assessment of the North Carolina Tri-Agency Council's Policy Network

Folder 197

Taking Precautions: Diffusion of HIV/AIDS Education in Gay Male Populations

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 6. Master's Papers, August 1976-May 1994 and undated.

59 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Master's papers completed by students in the school of public health, organized by academic year and title.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 6.2. 1981-1982, August 1981-May 1982.

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