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
  Specialist
• Keli Tallman, 4-H Youth Development Specialist
• Iowa 4-H Afterschool In-Service
• November 29, 2006

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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?

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What Are Your Communitys 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.

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Community Capacity Building

• An asset-based community development framework
• Emphasizes a communitys strengths and resources
• Relationship driven between and among community
  partners
• Community asset-map versus community needs map

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Importance of Mobilizing a Communitys 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

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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

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Mapping Your Communitys 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

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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 Offices
  4-H Afterschool/out-of-school time outreach
  efforts.
• How would youth be meaningfully involved
  with the partnership?

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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
  hospitals burn unit
• Nutrition and gardening enrichment project with
  elementary school students

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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_at_iastate.edu to schedule a visit.

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PowerPoint Resources

• Building Communities from the Inside Out A Path
  Toward Finding and Mobilizing A Communitys
  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_ass
  et_mapping.pdf)
• Community Toolbox (http//ctb.ku.edu/tools/en/chap
  ter_1003.htm)

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Resources Continued

• Community Guide to Helping Americas 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)