Community organizing and advocacy: Increasing the quality and quantity of mentoring programs

Wandersman, Abraham; Clary, E. Gil; Forbush, Janet; Weinberger, Susan G.; Coyne, Shawn M.; Duffy, Jennifer

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“…Potential barriers and hurdles, such as power struggles, limited resources (including time), staff allocation, funding for program evaluation and the academic partners' inability to develop truly collaborative partnerships, are some of the challenges identified in the literature (see Fawcett et al 1996;Author et al 2003;Wandersman et al 2006). Further challenges include differential time constraints and agency staff turnover.…”

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“…Most of the capacity building literature includes taxonomies of capacity building (see Flaspohler et al 2008), conceptualizations of capacity building (see Arnold 2006;Fawcett et al 2003;Wandersman et al 2006) and discussions of the various dimensions of capacity building (see Chaskin 2001;Crisp et al 2000;Lord & Hutchison 2003;Nye & Glickman 2000;Ristau 2001). Based on previous research and review of the literature, we developed an empowerment approach to capacity building designed to assist communities in either promoting social change and/or engaging agency staff and program recipients in the process of program planning, implementation and evaluation (Fawcett et al 2003;Fetterman 2001;Fetterman & Wandersman 2005).…”

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Capacity Building and Empowerment: A panacea and a challenge for agency-university engagement

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Capacity building is an effective strategy for promoting organizational change and/or improving the quality of social services. In this article I present an empowerment approach to capacity building. In doing so I propose a number of principles that can promote capacity building and collaboration between social service agencies and universities from an empowerment perspective: keeping the control of the capacity building process in the agency; developing competencies that matter to the people in the agency; engaging in supportive roles; maintaining a strengths-based approach to capacity building; focusing on sustainability, institutionalization and utilization of acquired skills; and paying attention to cultural and contextual issues. Further, the challenges and benefits of the empowerment approach to university-agency collaboration are discussed in this article.

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Capacity Building and Empowerment: A panacea and a challenge for agency-university engagement

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“…There has also been considerable work in defining best practice and in establishing formal and informal quality approaches that can be used in mentoring and youth mentoring settings (e.g. Jucovy, 2002;Miller, 2007;Wandersman et al, 2006). These quality approaches emphasise either the organisational aspects of mentoring programmes (training, management and evaluation) or focus on indicators of customer satisfaction.…”

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Ensuring quality in online career mentoring

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2015

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

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This article explores the issue of quality in online career mentoring. It builds on a previous evaluation of Brightside, an online mentoring system in the UK which is primarily aimed at supporting young people's transitions to further learning. The article notes that participants in Brightside's mentoring programmes reported satisfaction with their experiences, with many stating that it helped them to make decisions and to positively change their learning and career behaviours. However, the article argues that there are challenges in ensuring quality and consistency connected to both the voluntary nature of mentoring and the online mode. The article proposes a 10-point quality framework to support quality assurance, initial training and professional development for online mentors. Keywords: mentoring, online mentoring, quality IntroductionThis article explores the issue of quality in a series of online mentoring programmes delivered using Brightside's 1 mentoring system and career information websites. Brightside is a UK-based charity which provides online mentoring to help young people access career and educational opportunities.

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“…Service initiatives for children and adolescents often become convoluted by political, social, and economic agendas and misplace the basic understanding of need. Despite these challenges, communities must move towards accountability and engagement if services are going to address the deficit (Wandersman et al, 2006). Engaging children and adolescents as partners whose input is important in the strengthening of services in communities and countries is vital.…”

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“…Although social service practitioners in Jamaica want successful outcomes, it is difficult to use some of the principles set forth in North American literature. Whereas North American mainstream service outcomes can be used for the basic application of service delivery, the emerging information and literature from NGOs in developing countries should be examined because of their direct contact with countries, community organizations, and service providers (Wandersman et al, 2006). Programs and interventions should be modified to meet the ethnically specific service needs and identify how they differ for children and adolescents in different countries (UNICEF, 2005).…”

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Deh Kidz in Jamaica: An Evaluation Report about a Community Organization Serving Children and Adolescents

Yaffa¹

2010

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This report details the evaluation of a community organization serving children and adolescents in Jamaica. The short-term goal of this study was to offer recommendations to the community organization. The long-term goal is to enhance services in order to improve child and adolescent outcomes in Jamaica. This study highlighted present trends for child and adolescent services in this community organization and provides an analysis that seeks to enhance those same services in the future. Recommendations include suggestions for increasing social programs, for increasing the impact of social programs on this inner-city community, and for exploring an approach to programming that benefits children and adolescents from this community.Children and adolescents living in the inner city of Jamaica face the harsh realities associated with the poverty and physical decline of the community (United Nations Children's Fund [UNICEF] Jamaica, 2007). In 2003, Jamaica's total population was approximately 2.65 million, of which 977,000, or 37%, were children and adolescents under the age of 18, half of whom lived in poverty (World Bank, 2003). Overall, despite declining growth rates, the level of all inner-city investment in social resources and services over the past three decades has not kept pace with the demands of supporting the basic needs of children and adolescents (World Bank, 2003). Consequently, children and adolescents in Jamaica have poor access to housing, education, employment opportunities, social services, and basic amenities (Aleph, 2002;Black, 2001; UNICEF Jamaica, 2006). This lack of essentials for children and adolescents weakens their opportunities to grow in secure foundations that generate emotional, social, and economic development (World Bank, 2004).Living circumstances for children and adolescents in Jamaica have deteriorated to a deprive level (UNICEF Jamaica, 2006). Socioeconomic conditions in the community under study continue to contribute to high unemployment, intimidating levels of criminal activity, and disproportionate poverty (Black, 2001; United Nations, 2006). Conditions in this inner-city community are also complicated by political tribalism, subcultures, and turf wars, which in turn have led to the physical destruction of the area and stigmatization and victimization of residents by the wider community.The following research question formed the framework for this study: How effective have child and adolescent services been in this community organization?Deh Kidz in Jamaica: Evaluation of a Community Organization Serving Children and Adolescents 281 MethodologyThe community organization that is the subject of this report is located in a well-known, southern part of a large, inner-city community in Jamaica.This organization is a member of a larger association that exists for the promotion and well-being of children and adolescents. The organization takes a holistic approach by supporting physical, mental, social, and spiritual development. This study was an improvement-based, summativ...

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Community organizing and advocacy: Increasing the quality and quantity of mentoring programs

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Capacity Building and Empowerment: A panacea and a challenge for agency-university engagement

Capacity Building and Empowerment: A panacea and a challenge for agency-university engagement

Ensuring quality in online career mentoring

Deh Kidz in Jamaica: An Evaluation Report about a Community Organization Serving Children and Adolescents

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