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Documenting the Petals through
Resource Mapping
Coordinating Youth Services
California Youth Council Institute
May 14 - 15, 2002
Resource Mapping
 What
is the purpose of mapping?
 What information are you looking for essential question will determine what
information you get
 “The quality of our decisions is directly
related to the qualify of the information
we receive”
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Why map?
 Identify
petals on the local daisy
 Identify partners and programs
 Better understand available resources
 Identify ‘targets of opportunity’ to build a
stronger service network
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Three Approaches to Mapping
 Organizational
mapping -- connect the
Youth Council to a larger network
 Community asset mapping -community capacity inventory, especially
for specific groups
 Community-youth mapping -- develop
comprehensive data on youth services
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Organizational Mapping
 How
does “X” relate to community
organizations and resources?
 Primarily as a tool for organizational
development
 Document existing and potential links to
other orgs, individuals, resources,
institutions
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Police
Career Center
Court
System
Parents
Schools
College
Housing
Authority
Hometown
Youth Council
CSL
Foster
Care
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Churches
Employers
YMCA
Sectors
College
Education
Court
System
People
Parents
Police
Mayor
Superintendent
Housing
Churches
Publisher
Hometown
Youth Council
Employers
Foster
Care
Bus Company
YMCA
CSL
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Services
Career Center
Community Asset Mapping
 Community
development based on
capacity, assets, skills within area
 Just like ‘positive youth development’ -don’t just focus on problems, needs,
deficits.
 Never
enough funds
 Tends to isolate investment in solutions
 Over-reliance on outside experts
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The ‘Bible’ for Asset Mapping
 Building
Communities from the Inside
Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing
a Community’s Assets
 John
Kretzmann
 John McKnight
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Using an Asset Map
Depict information on community links
 Shows potential new links in existing network
 Shows your interactions with other organizations
 Find volunteers, board members or referrals
 Focuses on organization's goals, projects and
structure, which could contribute to a strategic
planning process
 Shows your work is not done in a vacuum.
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Steps for Asset Mapping -- with a
Youth Focus
 Develop
a capacity inventory for each
youth
 Build an inventory of assets and resources
across the community
 Build connections between youth and
community institutions
 Connect with resources outside
community
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Community Youth Mapping
 What
is it?
 Resource
mapping focuses on what
communities have to offer by identifying their
assets and resources that can be used for
building communities.
 10
step process
 Academy
for Educational Development/Center
for Youth Development and Policy Research
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Resource Mapping
 Why
do it?
A
way to find new resources
 Organizations/staff see potential new links to
their existing network
 Identify service gaps
 Use as strategic planning tool
 Provide broader access to data by all youth
partners
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CYM Steps
Community
involvement
 Advisory Group
 Project management
(day-to-day ops)
 Pre-planning
 Staffing and
personnel

Training
 Field work
 Data entry and
analysis
 Dissemination plan
 Evaluation and
maintenance
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Resource Mapping
 What
range of youth service categories
will you look at:
 employment
 education
 training
 human
service
 WIA elements
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Resource Mapping
 Impact
 baseline
information
 youth involvement- youth perspective
 advocacy for youth services
 improved quality of program decisions and
services
 youth summit
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Practical Uses of CYM
 Timing
and availability of existing services
 Identify service gaps
 Community/system marketing
 Program quality improvement
 Sources of youth for referral into daisy
 Programs and resources for joint planning
 Benchmarking and performance review
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Mapping Websites
 Web
based -
 Samples:
Cape Cod, NJ, Virginia
http://www.communityyouthmapping.org
 youth
council/YO site
 urban
community system
http://brocktonrise.communityos.org
http://www.bostonresourcenet.org/
 statewide
resource directory
http://www.communityconnection.org
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