Knowing Your Community
This term describing asset focused and community driven initiatives was coined by John McNight and Jody Kretmannn
What is Asset Based Community Development
She is an advocate for the rights of Indigenous children in Canada.
Who is Cindy Blackstock?
They help you articulate the overall goal for your project
What are vision statements?
When applying for one of these you are expected to submit a budget, a logic model and a work plan
What is a grant?
This mode of communication is the most effective way of reaching people
What is one to one conversation?
The collection of information in a purposeful
and systematic way to answer important
questions about programs
What is evaluation?
Gathering information in a systematic way
What is research?
She won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work organizing women to peacefully oppose the war in Liberia
Who is Leymah Gbowee?
A graphic depiction (road map) that presents the shared relationships among the objectives, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact for your program. It depicts the relationship between your program’s activities and its intended effects
What is a logic model?
This important planning tool should include lines for space, materials, and personnel
What is a budget?
The technique used in the video to change people's minds around homophobia.
What is deep canvassing?
These are two reasons why evaluation is important
What are to improve and to prove
It includes basic community characteristics, community resources and assets, and community needs that haven't been met.
What is a community assessment?
This approach to social service work relies on experts, focuses on problems, and gives gifts to meet needs.
What is a service approach to social service work?
The short term and medium term changes in knowledge, skills, and behaviours
What are outcomes?
The minimum percentage of the grant that should be added on to cover admin costs.
What is 10%?
The six steps of outreach planning
What are objectives, audiences, proposition, format, integration, and evaluation
After every program adding daily numbers to an excel spreadsheet or a program database
What is tracking outputs?
The three types of gifts that individuals can contribute to community.
What are gifts of the head, gifts of the hands and gifts of the heart?
This approach to social service work equalizes power relations, focuses on assets and promotes capability and initiative.
What is a developmental approach to social service work?
The numbers we count from our programs or interventions
What are outputs?
reserve of money that can only be used for specific purposes
What are restricted funds?
Three ways to make your outreach poster awesome
What are clear information, great pictures, good colour contrast
These are three ways to get feedback from participants about a program
What are focus groups, questionnaires, surveys, comments and suggestions boxes
Documenting the tangible(physical assets) and intangible resources (skills, passions) of a community
What is asset mapping?
The name of the organization that Cindy Blackstock started
What is the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society?
The overall goals of the program or intervention
What are objectives?
A donation of goods or services rather than cash or appreciated property
What are in kind contributions?
These are three skills for effective outreach
What are cultural sensitivity, confidence, empathy, listening, patience
Ramping up outreach, changing the curriculum, and adjusting the program length
What are ways to adjust our programs based on evaluation results?