Building relational capital: The contribution of episodic and relational community engagement

Johnston, Kim A.; Lane, Anne B.

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“…Particularly for vulnerable communities, such as low-socioeconomic status (SES) families, we learned that higher levels of participation are more difficult to achieve due to their living situations [5,6]. Professionals may struggle to achieve optimal communication, interaction, involvement, and exchange between the often hard-to-reach communities and professional partners [7]. This implies that, if professionals want to reach this target group, they need to firmly dive into their needs and motives to develop and implement initiatives together [3].…”

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“…Although community engagement projects showed promising results, low-SES families remain a hard-to-engage group. This became obvious when vulnerable groups were asked to participate in projects with predefined health-promotion themes [7]. With the overall ambition of partnering with low-SES families, focusing on their own defined needs and involving them in well-being-promoting activities from the start, the Vaals Meets approach was developed.…”

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The Power of Trading: Exploring the Value of a Trading Shop as a Health-Promoting Community Engagement Approach

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Jansen

2020

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Involving and engaging vulnerable communities from the very beginning is important if we wish to enhance general well-being. With a focus on equal partnership with low-socioeconomic status (SES) families, a Trading Shop in Vaals was developed as a community engagement initiative. In the current study, we focused on the participation process, from preparation to sustaining the Trading Shop, in order to define whether the Trading Shop can be successful in engaging families through focusing specially on their needs and perceived positive health. A formative case study design was carried out to monitor, evaluate, and timely adjust the developments within the Trading Shop by using participatory action research. The Trading Shop was monitored from its preparation to its opening, as well as during the start and the steps taken towards continuation in the form of municipal policy. The results showed one central theme during all phases: the optimal navigation between top-down support from professionals and bottom-up developments among the volunteers in the Trading Shop. With the input from both approaches, it was possible to create an optimal environment for the volunteers to achieve personal development. The inclusivity and accessibility of the Trading Shop as a community engagement initiative offered the opportunity to volunteers to enhance their needs, realizing personal growth and development of their talents in several positive health domains.

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The Power of Trading: Exploring the Value of a Trading Shop as a Health-Promoting Community Engagement Approach

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“…Particularly for vulnerable communities, such as low socioeconomic status (SES) families, we learned that higher levels of participation are more difficult to achieve due to their living situations (Ball, 2015;Mullainathan & Shafir, 2013). Professionals may struggle to achieve optimal communication, interaction, involvement, and exchange between the often hard-to-reach communities and professional partners (Johnston & Lane, 2018). This implies that, if professionals want to reach this target group, they need to firmly dive into their needs and motives to develop and implement initiatives together (Carlson et al, 2006).…”

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“…Although community engagement projects showed promising results, low-SES families remain a hard-to-engage group. This became obvious when vulnerable groups were asked to participate in projects with predefined health-promotion themes (Johnston & Lane, 2018). With the overall ambition of partnering with low-SES families to involve them in well-beingpromoting activities from the start, the Vaals Meets approach was developed.…”

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“…In their home environment, most volunteers also benefited from their stronger network by, for example, helping each other or just meeting up. Building this partnership network first for, and ultimately together with, the families was seen as essential in supporting the families to take part and experience success in the community engagement activities (Johnston & Lane, 2018).…”

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Contents Chapter 1 General Introduction Chapter 2 Shining light inside the tunnel: Using photovoice as a strategy to define the needs for health promotion among families of low socioeconomic status Chapter 3 Small successes make big wins: A retrospective case study towards community engagement of low socioeconomic status families Chapter 4 The power of trading: Exploring the value of a Trading Shop as a health promoting community engagement approach Chapter 5 With whom are you dealing? Using social network analysis as a tool to strengthen service delivery structures for low socioeconomic status populations. Chapter 6 As steady as a rock! Gaining insight in recruitment and retention among primary school children with behavioral problems in Sport Mix Club Chapter 7 A good start is half the battle. Primary schoolchildren's perception of education support from both home and school environment: A mixed-methods study Chapter 8 A jack of all trades? Exploring the role of a broker in the societal activation process of long-term welfare recipients Chapter 9 General Discussion References Summary Samenvatting Zusammenfassung Valorization Addendum Appendices Dankwoord Curriculum Vitae Publication List Chapter 1 General Introduction Chapter 1 8 The two faces of the municipality of Vaals In June 2016, as I drove around the first roundabout into Vaals, I could hardly fail to be impressed by the large old buildings on the Maastrichterlaan and the amazing landscape just before entering the village. The city hall that I visited first was this glorious, restored building, the kind that is often to be seen in Vaals. Imagine the famous three-country point with the labyrinth, the large towers with the amazing view over Vaals and the hilly landscape. And these idyllic landscapes with the walking and cycling tracks and beautiful old architecture, and of course the delicious ice cream for which I frequently visited Vaals when I was younger. My impression was the same as when I was little and that is described almost everywhere on the internet as 'this idyllic town'… Excited and a bit nervous, this time I entered the municipality that I had been visiting since my early childhood. But today I was wearing a different pair of glasses. The glasses of a researcher with the aim of initiating and exploring community engagement processes. I was going to work with families living below or around the poverty line. Although it does not seem to be the case at first glance, poverty is an issue in Vaals. While getting to know Vaals, the professionals employed there, and some of the families involved, the contradiction between 'this idyllic town' and the underlying issue of poverty became more visible to me. I had discovered the 'two faces of Vaals'. Poverty from a historical point of view: how did it get this far? The municipality of Vaals (Vallis) was first mentioned in historical records in the year 1041. After that, it took until the 18th century before Vaals became visible again in the records. In that time, Vaals was known for its thriving industr...

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The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development

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Building relational capital: The contribution of episodic and relational community engagement

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The Power of Trading: Exploring the Value of a Trading Shop as a Health-Promoting Community Engagement Approach

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