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Community Partnership Development: Integrating Community Asset Mapping within 4-H Afterschool. Jennifer Snook-Hall, 4-H Youth Development Specialist Keli Tallman, 4-H Youth Development Specialist Iowa 4-H Afterschool In-Service November 29, 2006. Session Topics.
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Community Partnership Development: Integrating Community Asset Mapping within 4-H Afterschool Jennifer Snook-Hall, 4-H Youth Development Specialist Keli Tallman, 4-H Youth Development Specialist Iowa 4-H Afterschool In-Service November 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 Mapping Mobilizes 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 Institute http://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)