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Comprehensive Planning and Citizen Participation 
Description: This publication is designed to provide an understanding
of the comprehensive planning process
and the complementary role that citizen participation
plays throughout the entire effort.You will be
presented with content-based information related
to comprehensive planning and citizen participation,
examples of its application in real communities
across the state, and resources that will help
you work your way through the development of a
citizen participation plan for your community—a
plan that walks in lock-step with your comprehensive
planning approach.
Description: The Connecticut Assets Network (CAN) is a grassroots nonprofit network of citizens and organizations that promote the integration and successful use of asset-based strategies for community development.
Description: This website provides information about buying and owning a home, even for those with limited resources.
Preparing For the Future: A Guide to Community Based Planning
Description: Across the nation, the desire for rural and small town community and economic development stakeholders to solve local problems and reduce socioeconomic disparities is increasingly recognized by state policymakers, local elected officials and citizens. Moreover, the need to attract and retain sufficient levels of human capital in rural areas to improve the overall quality of life is often a major priority for many communities. In the southern United States, county Extension agents (hereafter referred to as CEAs), particularly those located in nonmetropolitan counties, are increasingly being called upon to provide leadership for community and economic development efforts.
The overall intent of community-based planning is to develop a comprehensive and well-managed plan that individual and associational actors can utilize to guide local community development initiatives. The process
directly engages community leaders and the broad-based citizenry in an active effort to move their community from today’s reality to tomorrow’s possibilities. With a basic understanding of community and community development, along with the techniques involved in the process of community-based planning, CEAs can become actively involved at the community level and serve as an influential resource in moving the planning process forward.
Social Psychology Network - Community Psychology Resources
Description: A webpage with links related to community psychology, including community building, community health, action teaching, service learning, and more.
Supporting Families Following a Disaster
Description: The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide a better understanding of a disaster and the impact it may have on families. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Description: The Community Tool Box is the world's largest resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. It offers more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance in creating change and improvement, and is growing as a global resource for this work.
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Author: Hahn, Andrew
Description: A summary report of a study that examined the long-term outcomes and sustainability of community initiatives for children, youth and families. Describes what happens in the community after funding ends.
Citizen Participation: An Essay on Applications of Citizen Participation to Extension Programming
Author: Schmidt, Fred
Description: An essay that discusses citizen participation and how it can be applied to Extension programming.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Introduction
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resources that introduces citizen development. It includes links to a literature review, indicators and measures, an evaluation example, an essay on citizen participation, and sources and annotations.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Literature Review
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author); Jakes, Susan S.
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides a literature review of citizen development. The review includes discussions of human capital, community assets, empowerment, citizen participation, and community development. It also includes models of citizen development and links to other resources about citizen development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Sources and Annotations
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that includes sources and annotations for citizen development.
Measuring Community Success and Sustainability: An Interactive Workbook
Author: Flora, Cornelia (1 more by this author); S. Ratner, & J. Topolsky; M. Wall, S. Odell,; M. Kinsley, V. Luther,
Description: This resource provides an interactive web-based community assessment guide. It is based on a hard-copy publication of the same title that was published in 1999.
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Evaluating the Extension Volunteer Teacher
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource discusses the benefits of evaluating volunteer teacher, and it provides information about guidelines for evaluations, types of evaluations, and sample instruments.
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Author: Stevens, Debbie (1 more by this author)
Description: This guide for 4-H Clubs and members suggests ways youth can participate as an active
asset in their communities to promote emergency and disaster planning. It includes sample activities, links to resources, and action steps for serving as a catalyst in jump-starting preparedness planning in business, community and families. The guide can be used by traditional 4-H clubs, specialty clubs, school enrichment or 4-H Afterschool programs.
Are We Fostering Social Capital?
Author: Dunham, Trudy (32 more by this author)
Description: Are our youth programs building a sense of engagement, inclusion, and trust? Are youth connected to their community? Research suggests that youth programs can foster these traits and social capital when properly implemented. CYFAR has developed tools to help you assess and build social capital, and several programs have adopted strategies to foster social capital. This resource pulls together many of the CYFAR developed social capital resources for you.
Author: Stehulak, Nancy; Beth Flynn; Barb Brahm
Description: Building Dynamic Groups is a web based compilation of activities to build relationships, become dynamic and help them function at their best. It addresses the areas of communication, facilitation, team building, collaboration, and visioning. There are also sections on assessments and ice breakers to use in group development. This curriculum includes procedures and guidelines, along with occasional variations for each activity. Activities can be used individually or several can be used as a series.
Author: Hahn, Andrew
Description: A summary report of a study that examined the long-term outcomes and sustainability of community initiatives for children, youth and families. Describes what happens in the community after funding ends.
Citizen Participation: An Essay on Applications of Citizen Participation to Extension Programming
Author: Schmidt, Fred
Description: An essay that discusses citizen participation and how it can be applied to Extension programming.
Community Building: Strengthening the Sense of Community
Description: A brief position paper on building a sense of community.
Community Building: Strengthening the Sense of Community Best Practices
Description: A brief best practices piece on building a sense of community.
Community Building: Strengthening the Sense of Community: Ideas for Action
Description: A brief promising practices piece that offers ways to take action to build a sense of community.
Community Coaching for Guiding Sustainable Community Change
Description: Need to jump start community change? Have you considered Community Coaching? Sports coaches work to keep groups focused on a goal - winning a game. Life coaches help focus individuals on a goal. Community Coaches partner with communities to focus and achieve goals! With the goal of putting information at the fingertips of professionals working to strengthen and build sustainable community change efforts, these and many more resources are available on CYFERnet.
Community Philanthropy and Racial Equity: What Progress Looks Like
Description: This report, based on visits to nine organizations, examines how community philanthropy can deepen social justice work, especially in the American South.
Employment & Volunteer Opportunities for Seniors
Author: Lane, Rosalie
Description: A factsheet that provides an overview of the changing role of seniors in the workplace.
Description: How do youth become civically engaged? How can we encourage civic engagement and community involvement in public policy? Below are a few of the CYFERnet resources available on civic engagement and policy development . Use them to enhance deliberation and dialogue with the communities in which you live and serve.
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author); Katey Walker
Description: A fact sheet that discusses ethical issues that often arise when building and maintaining coalitions. It includes directions for an exercise to help groups think about their values when making decisions regarding ethical issues.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Literature Review
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author); Jakes, Susan S.
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides a literature review of citizen development. The review includes discussions of human capital, community assets, empowerment, citizen participation, and community development. It also includes models of citizen development and links to other resources about citizen development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Sources and Annotations
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that includes sources and annotations for citizen development.
Finding Common Agendas: How Young People are Being Engaged in Community Change Efforts
Author: Butler, Benjamin; Thaddeus Ferber; Donna Wharton-Fields; Karen Pittman
Description: This report presents an analytical framework for understanding how and why young people are connected to community youth development organizations and further examines reports on 100 such organizations across the country to explore the role that community organizations are playing in youth development.
GroupWorks: Facilitation-What Is It?
Author: Franck, Louise (1 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is a tool to be used by individuals who are responsible for facilitation a group problem solving session. It also serves to help those who wish to develop facilitation skills.
Independent Sector: Working Better Together
Description: Published by the Three Sector Initiative, seven leading organizations representing business, government and nonprofits, the report details the ways the sectors have used collaboration to form partnerships with each other to address complex problems that no one sector can handle on its own.
Description: A website for the Points of Light Foundation. The Foundation’s mission is to engage people in volunteer community service to help solve serious social problems.
Reinventing Citizenship: The Practice of Public Work
Author: Boyte, Harry; Nan Skelton
Description: This publication addresses our declining and fragmented public life that result in ineffective and trivialized public work. It describes a process and ways to use public work in order to reinvent citizenship to renew public life. It can be used with educators or community groups on the nature of public involvement.
Description: Update of an excellent status of the south report. Covers a number of dimensions related to social change.
Strengthening Programs to Reach Diverse Audiences
Author: Guion, Lisa (2 more by this author); Carolyn Perkins; Gae Braodwater, Wally Gaddard; Samantha Chattaraj
Description: This is a webpage with a 6 unit curriculum on working more effectively with ethnically diverse audiences as well as many resources, contacts, and a celebrating diversity calendar.
Sustaining the Rural Landscape by Building Community Social Capital
Author: Warner, Mildred (3 more by this author); Lucy Joyce; Judy Schneyer; Clare Hinrichs
Description: A theory/research report based on an article entitled "Organizing Communities for Change: Linking Social, Agricultural, and Environmental Interests." This report describes Extension efforts to help preserve the rural landscape in two counties in New York relying on techniques that built social capital and promoted environmental sustainability. This article describes skills and strategies for policy development and change.
Teachable Moments: Rebuilding from the Hurricanes and Preparing for the Future
Description: Extension employees with firsthand experience in responding to the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes will examine important issues about Extension's role in helping devastated communities rebuild. CYFAR representatives will describe how they are helping families cope with the hurricane's aftermath. CYFERnet and EDEN members will discuss ways to use technology during crises and facilitate a dialogue about ways to enhance Extension's responsiveness.
The Building Blocks of Community Development
Description: This resource presents a model of community development that focuses upon attracting high-quality jobs that add more value to communities. Through the addition of the high-quality jobs, community assets and income are increased and the overall quality of the community environment is improved.
Author: Cortes, Carlos
Description: Multicultural issues -- recognitional, relational, and identity -- central to The New Multiculturalism. and critical to the building of a better, stronger, more equitable 21st-century nation of diversity and commonality.
The Role of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market
Author: Holtz-Eakin, Douglas
Description: A discussion of and review of research findings about the immigrant labor force's - the skills they have to bring to the market; the types of jobs they hold; their compensation; and their impact on native-born workforce - role in today's U.S. economy.
Toward An Understanding of Youth In Community Governance
Author: Zeldin, Shepherd (4 more by this author); Linda Camino, Matthew Calvert
Description: For more than a decade, many researchers and practitioners have endorsed a positive youth development approach which views adolescents as active contributors to their own development and as assets to their communities. As part of this shift, youth are increasingly being invited to engage in community governance. Youth are making strong contributions to advisory boards and planning councils, and are integrally involved in key day-to-day functions such as program design, budgeting, outreach, public relations, training, and evaluation.
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Author: Stehulak, Nancy; Beth Flynn; Barb Brahm
Description: Building Dynamic Groups is a web based compilation of activities to build relationships, become dynamic and help them function at their best. It addresses the areas of communication, facilitation, team building, collaboration, and visioning. There are also sections on assessments and ice breakers to use in group development. This curriculum includes procedures and guidelines, along with occasional variations for each activity. Activities can be used individually or several can be used as a series.
Building Family, School and Community Connections for Greater Program Intensity
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Madelyn Ridgeway, Iowa State University; Susan Jakes, North Carolina State University; Barbara Woods, Iowa State University
Description: This is the archived recording of the Building Family, School and Community Connections for Greater Program Intensity webinar conducted by the CYFERnet Parent/Family and CYFERnet Community Editorial Boards, November 16, 2010. The webinar focuses on using an ecological model to strengthen the interface between families, schools and communities and thus maximize program outcomes.
Capturing Positive Youth Contributions using the Community Capitals Framework
Author: Baker, Barbara; Mary Emery; Sharon Kinsey; Matt Calvert; Richard Enfield; Bonita Williams
Description: Recognizing and utilizing community assets, such as social capital (bridging or bonding relationships) is beneficial to at-risk communities. A USDA research group aims to demonstrate how social capital is fostered and supported through 4-H. This presentation shares ways to document positive youth contributions through community mapping through active learning.
Author: Emery, Mary (3 more by this author); Susan Jakes; Laura Laumatia
Description: This workshop will focus on coaching as an approach to building communities and organizational capacity to create, develop, implement, and support ongoing efforts that support healthy communities and youth engagement. Participants will learn strategies, such as storytelling, and discourse-based processes that move beyond the expert model to an engagement model that leads to sustainable adult/youth partnerships.
Community Building Approaches to Working with Children, Youth, and Families CYFAR 2007 handout
Author: Jakes, Susan (21 more by this author); Boyd Rossing (University of Wisconsin), Daniel Perkins (Pennsylvania State Univ; Autumn Guin & Andrew Behnke (NC State University); Barbara Brown (Clemson University)
Description: For professionals wanting to learn to create programs and enhance program impact by building strong communities, this preconference will explore strategies for implementing community-based approaches, discuss challenges of building community programs, demonstrate a model for understanding the ecological context of community members, and present creative solutions for those working in communities to form collaborative relationships with all community members.
Community Building Approaches to Working with Children, Youth, and Families CYFAR 2007 presentation
Author: Jakes, Susan (21 more by this author); Barbara Brown (Clemson University); Autumn Guin & Andrew Behnke (NC State University); Boyd Rossing (University of Wisconsin), Daniel Perkins (Pennsylvania State Univ
Description: For professionals wanting to learn to create programs and enhance program impact by building strong communities, this preconference will explore strategies for implementing community-based approaches, discuss challenges of building community programs, demonstrate a model for understanding the ecological context of community members, and present creative solutions for those working in communities to form collaborative relationships with all community members.
Community Building Approaches to Working with Children, Youth, and Families CYFAR 2007 presentation
Author: Jakes, Susan (21 more by this author); Autumn Guin & Andrew Behnke (NC State University); Barbara Brown (Clemson University); Boyd Rossing (University of Wisconsin), Daniel Perkins (Pennsylvania State Univ
Description: For professionals wanting to learn to create programs and enhance program impact by building strong communities, this preconference will explore strategies for implementing community-based approaches, discuss challenges of building community programs, demonstrate a model for understanding the ecological context of community members, and present creative solutions for those working in communities to form collaborative relationships with all community members.
Community Building: Strengthening the Sense of Community: Ideas for Action
Description: A brief promising practices piece that offers ways to take action to build a sense of community.
Engaging, Mobilizing, and Impacting Faith-based Communities
Author: Jakes, Susan (21 more by this author)
Description: Online training to learn the challenges and rewards of working with faith-based audiences and organizations and assist Extension professionals partner with the faith-based community in implementing educational programs. Your opportunity to: Increase knowledge of the importance of uniting faith-based audiences/organizations; learn strategies for approaching potential faith-based community partners; increase knowledge of effective practices for working with faith-based audiences/organizations; and hear lessons learned, challenges faced, and exciting results from working with faith-based audiences/organizations.
Description: Indiana’s Food for the Hungry brings together individuals with a variety of backgrounds in the effort to promote food security and food safety. The diversity of the program allows staff to work with individuals to provide nutrition and food safety information and promote awareness of the issue of hunger in the state of Indiana.
http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/safefood/sfhungry.asp
The education provided includes nutrition and food safety information associated with emergency food feeding programs. Methods of delivery include a newsletter that addresses various topics related to nutrition and food safety. Copies of the newsletter and educational insert are available for download from the website and can be distributed to clients or staff.
Maximizing Assets of Diverse Communities to Enhance Program
Author: Broadwater, Gae
Description: A popular tool that is used in program development is asset mapping. This teleconference will discuss key strategies for uncovering and accessing the assets within a community, particularly diverse groups, neighborhoods, and communities. Participants will consider how to apply these assets, resources, protective factors, and netowrks to maximize and enhance CYFAR / Extension programs and activities. Materials supporting this teleconference were developed for the CYFAR curriculum Strengthening Programs to Reach Diverse Audiences.
Description: A website for the Points of Light Foundation. The Foundation’s mission is to engage people in volunteer community service to help solve serious social problems.
Positive Directions for Schools and Communities
Description: Rural communities and their schools often overlook the resources and opportunities they can offer each other. As a large employer and purchaser, the school may control a substantial amount of the community's money. The school's classes and facilities are valuable resources for community education and training needs. Teachers and administrators are highly educated people. Students are a resource and opportunity, and often, a significant segment of the community population. Many community members have experience and skills as local entrepreneurs and service-providers. Local businesses may have modern equipment available to teach students new skills. Development professionals may want to train local students in the day-to-day of local business.
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A Field Guide to Community Coaching
Author: Emery, Mary (3 more by this author); Ken Hubbell, Becky Miles-Polka
Description: You can request a free “e-book” copy of the field guide by filling out a short form at this site. This book is a 108-page guide to concepts, tools, and examples of coaching that supports individuals, coalitions, groups, and institutions engaged in shaping and sustaining community change. It incorporates examples from rural and urban settings along with tips and tales from over a dozen experienced practitioners. The Guide was developed by Mary Emery, PhD., Ken Hubbell, and Becky Miles-Polka with support from the W. K. Kellogg, Annie E. Casey, and Northwest Area foundations, and the Kellogg Action Lab at Fieldstone Alliance.
A Flood of Emotions: The Anniversary of a Traumatic Event
Author: Johannes, Elaine (8 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses understanding and dealing with the anniversary of a traumatic event or disaster within a community. The author gives ideas for dealing proactively as a community with preparing for and healing through the anniversary date.
About IFAS Leadership Development: Listening to Hear
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: Part 7 of the IFAS Leadership curriculum. Describes the skill of listening and gives tips for improving your listening skills.
Description: Extract and Summary of a comprehensive guidebook to a set curriculum addressing purposive community change.
Author: Stehulak, Nancy; Beth Flynn; Barb Brahm
Description: Building Dynamic Groups is a web based compilation of activities to build relationships, become dynamic and help them function at their best. It addresses the areas of communication, facilitation, team building, collaboration, and visioning. There are also sections on assessments and ice breakers to use in group development. This curriculum includes procedures and guidelines, along with occasional variations for each activity. Activities can be used individually or several can be used as a series.
Building Strong Communities Through Empowerment
Author: Ludy, Beverlie; James Scotty McTaggart
Description: This Power Point presentation provides an overview of a Share Fair training at CYFAR 2003 that addressed community leadership development programs and empowerment. Community leadership development programs that are based on an empowerment model provide opportunities and resources to enable people to take greater control of their lives and make a difference in their communities. People Empowering People is an effective program that enhances self-esteem and inner strengths, provides tools and knowledge, and develops a group bond for bringing about social change.
Citizen Participation: An Essay on Applications of Citizen Participation to Extension Programming
Author: Schmidt, Fred
Description: An essay that discusses citizen participation and how it can be applied to Extension programming.
Community Building: Strengthening the Sense of Community
Description: A brief position paper on building a sense of community.
Community Building: Strengthening the Sense of Community Best Practices
Description: A brief best practices piece on building a sense of community.
Community Building: Strengthening the Sense of Community: Ideas for Action
Description: A brief promising practices piece that offers ways to take action to build a sense of community.
Author: Emery, Mary (3 more by this author); Jennifer Henderson, Ken Hubbell, Becky Miles-Polka
Description: The Community Coaching Website. Community coaches work with local leaders and social change organizations. Working with a coach is a strategy to set goals, take action, make better decisions and develop natural strengths. Successful coaches focus on outcomes, but not at the expense of the process. They are attuned to the need for balance.
Author: Emery, Mary (3 more by this author); Jennifer Henderson, Ken Hubbell, Becky Miles-Polka
Description: The Community Coaching Website. Community coaches work with local leaders and social change organizations. Working with a coach is a strategy to set goals, take action, make better decisions and develop natural strengths. Successful coaches focus on outcomes, but not at the expense of the process. They are attuned to the need for balance.
Community Philanthropy and Racial Equity: What Progress Looks Like
Description: This report, based on visits to nine organizations, examines how community philanthropy can deepen social justice work, especially in the American South.
Description: A website for Community Resources, which is a nonprofit organization that brings innovative ideas, tools and experience, empowering urban communities to improve their social, physical and natural environment. Community Resources works in partnership with community groups, public agencies and nonprofit organizations to develop community-based environmental programs that address the environmental, social and economic issues facing urban America.
Community Voices: Leadership Development for Community Decision-Making
Author: Yancey, Juanita; Margaret W. Bullock; John Gibson
Description: This Power Point presentation provides an overview of a workshop on Community Voices that was presented at CYFAR 2003. "Community Voices" is a leadership development program which helps people help themselves. True progress comes only from the ideas, energies land commitments of the people who live in a community. "Community Voices"nurtures grassroots leadership by empowering people with the knowledge and skills they need to become a part of community affairs.
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author); Katey Walker
Description: A fact sheet that discusses ethical issues that often arise when building and maintaining coalitions. It includes directions for an exercise to help groups think about their values when making decisions regarding ethical issues.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Introduction
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resources that introduces citizen development. It includes links to a literature review, indicators and measures, an evaluation example, an essay on citizen participation, and sources and annotations.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Literature Review
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author); Jakes, Susan S.
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides a literature review of citizen development. The review includes discussions of human capital, community assets, empowerment, citizen participation, and community development. It also includes models of citizen development and links to other resources about citizen development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Sources and Annotations
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that includes sources and annotations for citizen development.
Evaluation Report: Engaging Persons with Disabilities
Description: A research report that describes the outcomes and lessons learned of a year-long initiative, funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service, to engage more people with disabilities in volunteer service.
If Not You Who? Taking A Stand For Young People In Your Community - The Asset Building Approach
Author: Smith, Claudette (1 more by this author)
Description: Curriculum trains community leaders to use the developmental asset framework to address issues facing youth in their communities. Curriculum consist of a facilitators guide which offers experiential training in an easy to follow language using activities that are effective for teaching the asset building concepts to limited resource, low income community leaders and families. Also effective with youth. Also includes a participant course book.
Measuring Community Success and Sustainability: An Interactive Workbook
Author: Flora, Cornelia (1 more by this author); S. Ratner, & J. Topolsky; M. Wall, S. Odell,; M. Kinsley, V. Luther,
Description: This resource provides an interactive web-based community assessment guide. It is based on a hard-copy publication of the same title that was published in 1999.
Reinventing Citizenship: The Practice of Public Work
Author: Boyte, Harry; Nan Skelton
Description: This publication addresses our declining and fragmented public life that result in ineffective and trivialized public work. It describes a process and ways to use public work in order to reinvent citizenship to renew public life. It can be used with educators or community groups on the nature of public involvement.
Social Capital: Tools for Community
Author: Hauser-Lindstrom, Doreen; Jody Horntvedt; Lynette Flage; Lori Northcott
Description: Social capital takes many different forms. Wherever people come together, build relationships, or network to get things done, there you will see social capital at work to improve your community. This presentation gives a brief overview of research on social capital, which has shaped work with communities in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Washington State; highlights of work that have led to increased community engagement and improved decision making are included.
Strengthening Programs to Reach Diverse Audiences
Author: Guion, Lisa (2 more by this author); Carolyn Perkins; Gae Braodwater, Wally Gaddard; Samantha Chattaraj
Description: This is a webpage with a 6 unit curriculum on working more effectively with ethnically diverse audiences as well as many resources, contacts, and a celebrating diversity calendar.
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Evaluating the Extension Volunteer Teacher
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource discusses the benefits of evaluating volunteer teacher, and it provides information about guidelines for evaluations, types of evaluations, and sample instruments.
- More about "The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Evaluating the Extension Volunteer Teacher"
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Preparing the Extension Volunteer to Teach
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource provides information for preparing an Extension volunteer to teach. It includes discussions about the following: the learning environment, how to overcome barriers to learning, and important elements of teaching.
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The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Providing Recognition
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource discusses issues related to providing recognition to volunteers. Specifically, it addresses the importance of providing recognition, types of recognition, and ways to provide recognition.
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Recruiting Volunteers for Teaching
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource offers guidelines on recruiting volunteer extension teachers. Included are questions to consider when reviewing applicants, guidelines for reviewing applicants, and the steps of the application process.
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Recruiting Volunteers for Teaching
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource offers guidelines on recruiting volunteer extension teachers. Included are questions to consider when reviewing applicants, guidelines for reviewing applicants, and the steps of the application process.
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Volunteers and Extension
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: A brief overview of a national study, Implications of Volunteerism for Extension, conducted by the University of Wisconsin. It also pvovides an introduction to the volunteer teacher series, which is designed for use by Extension professionals who work with volunteers.
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer: Legal Aspects Relating to Volunteers in Florida
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource offers information about laws and statutues pertaining to volunteers. Most of the information is specific to Florida.
The Main Street Managers Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain
Author: Fesenmaier, Julie (3 more by this author)
Description: Identifies 5 basic principles of community development:
C is for creating capital without which communities cannot complete.
L is for creating a learning community which is flexible and adaptive to change in today's global marketplace
I is for involving community groups and following principles of inclusiveness.
M is for the mission of our community development strategies.
B is for building broad based support for our mission.
Also includes worksheets and self-evaluation materials for program and organization workers to determine the needs of their community and how well they are facilitating community development.
Author: Cortes, Carlos
Description: Multicultural issues -- recognitional, relational, and identity -- central to The New Multiculturalism. and critical to the building of a better, stronger, more equitable 21st-century nation of diversity and commonality.
Us and Them: Trust, Democracy, and Youth Development
Author: Flanagan, Connie (1 more by this author)
Description: A research lecture presented at CYFAR 2002 that focuses on the role that youth development programs play in building social trust and promoting democracy
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Author: Cook, James (1 more by this author)
Description: Discusses necessity of theory informing practice. Reviews community development theory, develops concepts and outlines assumptions.
Community Philanthropy and Racial Equity: What Progress Looks Like
Description: This report, based on visits to nine organizations, examines how community philanthropy can deepen social justice work, especially in the American South.
Evaluation Report: Engaging Persons with Disabilities
Description: A research report that describes the outcomes and lessons learned of a year-long initiative, funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service, to engage more people with disabilities in volunteer service.
Finding Common Agendas: How Young People are Being Engaged in Community Change Efforts
Author: Butler, Benjamin; Thaddeus Ferber; Donna Wharton-Fields; Karen Pittman
Description: This report presents an analytical framework for understanding how and why young people are connected to community youth development organizations and further examines reports on 100 such organizations across the country to explore the role that community organizations are playing in youth development.
Harnessing the Strengths of African American Families through Family-Based Preventive Interventions
Description: Invited Research Presentation at the 2011 USDA DoD Family Resiliency Conference by Velma McBride Murry of Vanderbilt University. AIDS is the leading killer of African Americans between the ages of 25 and 44. The disparity in HIV infection rate among African Americans youth residing in rural Southern regions of the United States suggests an urgent need to identify ways to reduce HIV-related risk behavior. The challenge is to harness African American families’ protective capacities during middle childhood to foster positive development and limit high risk behaviors through emerging adulthood. Professor Murry speaks on her research with The Strong African American Families (SAAF) program, designed to enhance parenting and family processes which deter early sexual onset and the initiation of alcohol and drug use among rural African American preadolescents.
Independent Sector: Working Better Together
Description: Published by the Three Sector Initiative, seven leading organizations representing business, government and nonprofits, the report details the ways the sectors have used collaboration to form partnerships with each other to address complex problems that no one sector can handle on its own.
Promoting Community Transformation through Participatory Planning, Design, and Development
Description: Invited Research Presentation at the 2011 USDA DoD Family Resiliency Conference by Ken Reardon. Throughout the United States, local residents are coming together with civic and business leaders to devise and implement comprehensive redevelopment plans to improve their quality of life. These efforts are increasingly using participatory methods to elicit the input from those most affected by these plans and to build a non-partisan base of support to insure their implementation. This session introduces participants to the origins, evolution, practice and accomplishments of community-based resident-led planning that is having a transformative impact upon communities. Professor Reardon is engaged in research, teaching, and outreach in the fields of neighborhood planning, community development, municipal government reform, and community/university development partnerships.
Reinventing Citizenship: The Practice of Public Work
Author: Boyte, Harry; Nan Skelton
Description: This publication addresses our declining and fragmented public life that result in ineffective and trivialized public work. It describes a process and ways to use public work in order to reinvent citizenship to renew public life. It can be used with educators or community groups on the nature of public involvement.
Description: Update of an excellent status of the south report. Covers a number of dimensions related to social change.
The Changing Face of Rural America
Author: Kirschner, Annabel
Description: Powerpoint presentation about:
Harder to Define Rural • Increasing Importance of Amenities for
Growth • Increasing Diversity • An Aging Population
Includes maps, research, demographic information, charts, and trends regarding poverty
The Role of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market
Author: Holtz-Eakin, Douglas
Description: A discussion of and review of research findings about the immigrant labor force's - the skills they have to bring to the market; the types of jobs they hold; their compensation; and their impact on native-born workforce - role in today's U.S. economy.
Us and Them: Trust, Democracy, and Youth Development
Author: Flanagan, Connie (1 more by this author)
Description: A research lecture presented at CYFAR 2002 that focuses on the role that youth development programs play in building social trust and promoting democracy