Transcript 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.

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 afterschool/out-of-school time opportunities
for children and youth, please contact
Keli Tallman, State Youth Development
Specialist, at 515-294-0688 or at
[email protected] 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)