Community Building Approaches to Working with Children, Youth, and Families

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Community Building Approaches to Working with
Children, Youth, and Families

• Susan Jakes, Autumn Guin, Andrew Behnke
• North Carolina State University
• Boyd Rossing
• University of Wisconsin
• Daniel Perkins
• Pennsylvania State University
• Barbara Brown
• Clemson University
• Presented at the 2007 CYFAR Conference

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Framing the Day

• Opening Exercise Introductions to a Community
  Building Approach
• Part I Community Building
• Part II Multicultural Competence
• Part III Ecological Framework
• Part IV Putting it all together

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Community Building

• Connections
• of and for
• Children, Youth
• and Families
• Boyd Rossing
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• CYFAR Conference 2007

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Todays Fragmented Communities
Source Leadership for the Common Good Crosby and
Bryson 2005
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Community Renewal and Change Strategies

• Community Development Collaboration of
  community leaders and resource providers to plan
  and implement formal system changes in the
  community, with varied citizen participation
• Community Organizing Organize constituencies to
  redirect powerful institutions toward serving
  constituency interests
• Community Building. Identifying, mobilizing and
  empowering local assets and networks to achieve
  change based on local resources with some outside
  assistance

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Why Community Building?

• significant, lasting community change only occurs
  when local people assets are invested
• local investment begins with relationships
• over reliance on outside resources fosters
  dependence deficit orientation, can serve
  interests of outsiders vs local residents
• building local capacities enables adaptation and
  sustainability

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Discovering Seen Unseen Assets

• Seen
• Professionals, Experts,,,
• Organizations
• Economic and Environmental Strengths
• Unseen
• Untapped Individuals, Including
• Those At Risk
• Informal Networks
• Latent economic and environmental resources
• Meaningful Experiences, Stories

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Collective Social Capital

• Bonding Inward looking bonds, usually among
  persons with similar backgrounds, characteristics
  and, or values. Key for individual support
• Bridging Relationships across social divides in
  the community e.g. age, gender, ethnicity,
  religion, interest groups, varied organizations,
  etc. Key for community capacity

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Community Capacity

• -Sense of community
• -Resilient informal networks
• -Flexible formal systems
• -Shared responsibility for common good
• -Collective competence
• -Access to local outside resources
• Sources Mancini, Chaskin

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Community Building

• -Recognize, mobilize and support networks
• -Formulate shared visions and goals
• -serving at risk
• -serving larger community
• -Identify and link assets
• -Priorities, action, monitoring, adjustment
• -Keep building community capacity

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Multicultural Competence

• Autumn Guin Andrew Behnke
• NC State University

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What is Multicultural Competence?

• A set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and
  policies that come together in a system, agency,
  or among professionals and enables that system,
  agency, or those professionals to work
  effectively in crosscultural situations (Cross
  et al., 1989 Isaacs Benjamin, 1991). 

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Why should CYFAR programs care about MC?

• By 2050 48 of the population
• of the US will be people of color
• (Williams, 2001)
• For all families, the cultural framework plays a
  critical role in the goals parents set for their
  children (Ontai Mastergeorge, 2006)

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Essential Elements of MC

• Valuing Diversity
• Cultural Inclusiveness
• Linguistic Competence
• Policy Advocacy/ Engagement

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Multicultural Competency as a Developmental
Process

Cultural Incapacity
Cultural Pre-competence
Cultural Proficiency
Cultural Destructiveness
Cultural Blindness
Cultural Competence
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Evaluating Multicultural Competence

• Culture and Parenting A Guide for Delivering
  Parenting Curriculums to Diverse Families (Ontai
  Mastergeorge 2006)
• Tawara D. Goode - Georgetown University Center
  for Child Human Development University Center
  for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
  Education, Research Service Adapted from
  Promoting Cultural Competence and Cultural
  Diversity in Early Intervention and Early
  Childhood Settings - June 1989. Revised 2006.

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Ecological Programming

• Susan Jakes
• Dan Perkins

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Multilevel Programming
Policy to keep physical ed. in curriculum
School
Policy dev. to label healthy food choices in
cafeteria
Family
Obese Children
Education about Healthy food choices
Turn off the TV initiative
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Degree of Program Integration
Policy dev. to label healthy food choices in
cafeteria
Increases awareness of available healthy
Choices Increased knowledge Of how and why to
make healthy choices Opportunities for
Physical activity Reduce sedentary behavior
Family and child Education about Healthy food
choices
Reduction in Childhood Obesity
Policy to keep physical Ed. in curriculum
Turn off the TV initiative
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Systems Change
Adolescent culture
Parks and Rec
Family Relationships
Neighborhood
Mental Health
Teachers
Media
Places of Worship
Artistic opportunity
Economic class
Peer relationships
Drive for Success
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Systems Change
Adolescent culture
Parks and Rec
Family Relationships
Neighborhood
Mental Health
Teachers
Media
Places of Worship
Artistic opportunity
Economic class
Peer relationships
Drive for Success
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Community Control
Citizen Control
Partnership Delegated power
Community Representation
Consultation
Non-Participation/ Informing
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Putting it All Together
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• See worksheet _at_
• http//www1.cyfernet.org/conffav/05-07-ComBuildWS.
  doc

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What a Tangled Web We Weave
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• See references _at_
• http//www1.cyfernet.org/conffav/05-07-ComBuildHO.
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