community partnership development: integrating community asset mapping within 4-h afterschool
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Community Partnership Development: Integrating Community Asset Mapping
within 4-H Afterschool
Jennifer Snook-Hall, 4-H Youth Development SpecialistKeli Tallman, 4-H Youth Development Specialist
Iowa 4-H Afterschool In-ServiceNovember 29, 2006
Session Topics• What is community capacity building?• What are the benefits of community
capacity building?• How can you begin mapping your
community assets/partnerships?• How have after-school/out-of-school time
programs integrated community assets/partnerships within their programming outreach efforts?
What Are Your Community’s Assets?
• Take a few minutes to think about the strengths of the 4-H community that you represent.
• On the note card, identify the community partnerships that help support these strengths.
Community Capacity Building
• An asset-based community development framework
• Emphasizes a community’s strengths and resources
• Relationship driven between and among community partners
• Community asset-map versus community needs map
Importance of Mobilizing a Community’s Capacities…
• Youth grow, learn, work, and play within a variety of community settings
• Youth connect with a variety of positive adult role models• Availability and breadth of youth programming is
strengthened • Resources are expanded including staff, volunteers,
materials, program space, funding, etc.• Quality youth development programming and youth-adult
partnerships become a shared responsibility• Community unity is reinforced• Programs are more likely to be sustainable
Community Asset MappingMobilizes community resources in the areas of…
• Individual Citizens– Family Members– Friends– Neighbors
• Citizen Associations- Kiwanis- National Honor Society- Rotary
• Institutions- Agencies- Businesses- Organizations
Mapping Your Community’s Resources
• At your table, brainstorm the citizens, citizen associations, and institutions that make-up your 4-H community
• You may need to think of your 4-H community in terms of a county, town, city, or neighborhood
• Record the brainstormed community partners/resources on the newsprint
Linking to Community Partners• Select one community entity that your County
Extension Office would like to create a partnership with within the next three months.
• Describe and be willing to share with others at your table how the newly created partnership would strengthen your County Extension Office’s 4-H Afterschool/out-of-school time outreach efforts.
• How would youth be meaningfully involved with the partnership?
Integrating Community Assets/Partnerships within After-School/Out-of-School Time
Programming
• Quilting enrichment program with middle school students
• Service learning fundraiser for children at a hospital’s burn unit
• Nutrition and gardening enrichment project with elementary school students
For More Information
• If you would like to receive technical assistance on mobilizing community partners in support of quality after-school/out-of-school time opportunities for children and youth, please contact Keli Tallman, State Youth Development Specialist, at 515-294-0688 or at ktallman@iastate.edu to schedule a visit.
PowerPoint Resources• Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing A Community’s Assets (John
Kretzmann and John McKnight, 1993)
• The Asset-Based Community Development Institutehttp://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/abcd.html
• Beaulieu, L. Mapping the Assets of Your Community: A Key Component for Building Local Capacity. SRDC Series #227. Mississippi State, MS: Southern Rural Development Center, 2002. (http://srdc.msstate.edu/publications/227/227_asset_mapping.pdf)
• Community Toolbox (http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/en/chapter_1003.htm)
Resources Continued
• Community Guide to Helping America’s Youth(http://guide.helpingamericasyouth.gov)
• Reconnecting Youth & Community: A Youth Development Approach (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, 1996)
• Partners in Community Leadership: Youth and Adults Working Together for Better Communities (North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, 1993)
• Community Programs to Promote Youth Development (by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, 2003)
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