Subsidised Café Meals Program: more than just "a cheap meal"

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Doljanin ◽  
Kristine Olaris
Keyword(s):  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Innovative Program ◽  
The City ◽  
General Community ◽  
Improve Access ◽  
Insight Into

This paper describes the Caf� Meals Program that is operating in the City of Yarra. The Program has resulted from a collaboration of North Yarra Community Health (NYCH) and City of Yarra, and aims to improve access to nutritious, affordable and socially acceptable meals for homeless people. The Program forms a part of City of Yarra?s Meals Program; it is managed by NYCH. The Caf� Meals Program is currently feeding 50-60 homeless people in Yarra. It targets those who are homeless (or at risk of becoming homeless), who find it difficult to prepare their own meals, and who have no other prepared meal options that are appropriate for them in the community. It provides a choice of four local caf�s and restaurants for its participants. Each person is provided with a membership card that can be used once per day to purchase a meal (to the value of $8.80) for the price of $2.00. The program empowers clients by giving them control over when, where and what they will eat. It also enables the homeless person to participate in the life of the community by dining in venues where the general community eats and socialises. This improved sense of social connectedness and inclusion can have significant effects on the self-esteem of the program participants, and, subsequently, on their ability to make choices that improve their health and wellbeing. This paper presents this innovative program in detail and provides some insight into its outcomes, the components of the program that make it work, as well as the challenges that the program has had to address.

scholarly journals On What Do the Homeless Base Their Happiness?

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1512
Author(s):  
Yaiza Cano-González ◽  
Carmen Portillo-Sotelo ◽  
María del Mar Rodríguez-del-Águila ◽  
María Paz García-Caro ◽  
Ana M. Núñez-Negrillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Homeless Persons ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Support Strategies ◽  
Northern Areas ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Objective: To determine the relationship between the characteristics and experiences of homeless persons and their state of happiness as a basis for designing appropriate social support strategies. Design: Exploratory observational study with an analytical and descriptive qualitative design. Setting: Participants were contacted, administered with questionnaires, and interviewed in the street (central and northern areas of the city) or at the “Asociación Calor y Café” center in Granada (Spain) between April 2017 and February 2018. Participants: Selected by intentional sampling, 25 participants completed questionnaires in the first study and 14 of these were administered with questionnaires and interviewed in the second study. Method: General and specific questionnaires were administered to determine the state of happiness and other variables. Descriptive statistics were followed by an analysis of the relationships between variables and the content analysis of semi-structured interviews. Results: A feeling of happiness was described by 64% of participants and confirmed by a happiness scale score of 50%. Participants who felt satisfied with their life were 4.5-fold more likely to feel happy (p = 0.021). Expectations for the future were not associated with happiness or satisfaction with life. Content analysis of interviews revealed three main themes: conditions for happiness, own happiness/unhappiness, and self-esteem. Conclusions: Many homeless people describe themselves as feeling happy and satisfied with their life. Material aspects, affective situations, daily life concerns, and self-esteem predominate in their discourse on happiness.

scholarly journals Personal factors that influence the development of resilience in children aged between 7 and 12 years to develop in extreme poverty

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-107
Author(s):  
Hernán Yair Rodríguez Betancourt ◽  
Laura Guzmán Verbel ◽  
Nataly Del Pilar Yela Solano
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
Resiliency Factors ◽  
Positive Representations ◽  
The City

The following investigation was realized with the objective to characterize the personal factors that influence in the development of resilience in 200 children aged between 7 and 12 years in families linked to the program Red UNIDOS in the city of Ibague, for this was applied the inventory of resiliency factors proposed by Salgado (2005), which evaluate the level of self-esteem, empathy, autonomy, humor and creativity. The results show that the sample is in the middle of the factors evaluated (61%) and that 69% did not face adequately the adversity. We conclude that adult significant training children require psycho-afective formation to enable them to generate environments based on the self awareness of their children. Is proposed to design a training program for parents to incorporate into their speeches and actions positive representations on their children, so that achieving self-assertive and enable them to develop the ability to overcome adversity.

What’s Positive About Self-Verification?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. North ◽  
William B. Swann
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Positive Feedback ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Adaptive Process ◽  
Relationship Partners ◽  
Verification Process ◽  
Underlying Processes ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Shed Light

Self-verification theory assumes that people work to preserve their self-views by seeking to confirm them. Like other processes advocated by positive psychology, self-verification is a fundamentally adaptive process. Intrapsychically, self-verification strivings maintain psychological coherence, reduce anxiety, improve physical health, are associated with enhanced creativity, and may foster authenticity. Interpersonally, they encourage people to gravitate toward honest relationship partners, foster trust and intimacy in relationships, and ensure predictability in one’s behavior, which further promotes trust. Although self-verification is adaptive overall, it may lead to the perpetuation of negative self-views. Nevertheless, identifying the underlying processes in self-verification may lend insight into how to raise self-esteem. To raise the self-esteem of someone with a negative self-view, one should first provide the person with self-verification and subsequently provide positive feedback that challenges the negative self-views. Furthermore, , understanding the self-verification process more deeply may also shed light on how to define and build happiness.

scholarly journals “It’s being a part of a grand tradition, a grand counter-culture which involves communities”: A qualitative investigation of autistic community connectedness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Botha ◽  
Bridget Dibb ◽  
David Frost
Keyword(s):  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Autism Diagnosis ◽  
Community Connectedness ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Sense Of Direction ◽  
Autistic People ◽  
Counter Culture ◽  
Political Connectedness ◽  
Autistic Community

Autistic people report experiencing greater comfort socialising and easier communication with other autistic people compared to with non-autistic people. Despite autism being stereotypically associated with a lack of social motivation or community, an autistic community has been described briefly in the literature but is not yet well understood. Autistic community connectedness (ACC) may play an important role in promoting and protecting wellbeing for autistic people. This qualitative study involved interviewing autistic individuals (N = 20) in-person, via a video-based platform, over a text-based platform, or over email (according to the needs of the participants) to investigate ACC. Critical grounded theory tools were used to collect and analyse the data. Three elements of ACC were apparent in the data: belongingness, social connectedness, and political connectedness. Belongingness referred to the general sense of similarity that autistic people experienced with other autistic people, which they often did not with non-autistic people. Social connectedness referred to specific friendship participants formed with other autistic people. Political connectedness referred to a connectedness to the political or social equality goals of the autistic community. Participants described the benefits of ACC as being increased self-esteem, a sense of direction, and access to a sense of community that they did not typically experience with non-autistic people. Lack of connectedness involved ambivalence with an autism diagnosis and/or feelings of internalised stigma. These experiences of ACC may have implications for autistic people’s health and wellbeing, as well as how they deal with exposure to discrimination and stigma.

Positive Psychosocial Outcomes and Fanship in K-Pop Fans: A Social Identity Theory Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 003329412096152
Author(s):  
Derek A. Laffan
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Psychosocial Outcomes ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Self

Korean pop culture (K-Pop) has spread its influence outside of Korea to a worldwide fan audience. The present study investigated the self-categorised K-Pop fandom characteristics that predicted higher levels of K-Pop fanship, and subsequent psychosocial outcomes. Social identity theory was applied as a theoretical framework. In total, 1477 K-Pop fans from 92 predominantly Western countries fully completed an extensive online survey measuring fanship, fandom and psychosocial outcomes (happiness, self-esteem and social connectedness). Results of this study indicated that K-Pop fanship was significantly predicted by a several K-Pop demographic and fandom characteristics. K-Pop fanship was a significant predictor of increased happiness, self-esteem and social connectedness. The study findings advance the application of social identity theory in a K-Pop fan context and the psychological fanship research more broadly.

scholarly journals Nostalgia

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 304-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantine Sedikides ◽  
Tim Wildschut ◽  
Jamie Arndt ◽  
Clay Routledge
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Medical Disease ◽  
Social Emotion

Traditionally, nostalgia has been conceptualized as a medical disease and a psychiatric disorder. Instead, we argue that nostalgia is a predominantly positive, self-relevant, and social emotion serving key psychological functions. Nostalgic narratives reflect more positive than negative affect, feature the self as the protagonist, and are embedded in a social context. Nostalgia is triggered by dysphoric states such as negative mood and loneliness. Finally, nostalgia generates positive affect, increases self-esteem, fosters social connectedness, and alleviates existential threat.

Narratives of city exposure: Incarnations of the street person in Zanta: The Living Legend and The Dregs

2020 ◽  
pp. 002198942097789
Author(s):  
María Jesús Hernáez Lerena
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
The Public ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Narrative Studies ◽  
Street Dwellers ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
The City

This article examines the rationale for definitions of the homeless in the public imagination and the kind of discourses used to create a physical, psychological, and moral distance between the domiciled and the destitute. In a society where the worthy individual is tied to an ideal of entrepreneurial, rational, homed, successful consumer, and where public space is solely destined for the unobstructed consumption of the privileged, street dwellers are naturally seen as a threat to the economic, social, and moral order as well as a visual blemish: an obstacle to safety and wellbeing. Drawing from a number of sociological, urban, and narrative studies on the survival tactics of homeless people, and especially from Nicholas Blomley’s (2010) insights about street mobility and Leon Anderson’s (2017) classifications of stigma management, this article describes how subjects defined as pathological, dangerous, or pitiful, negotiate street restrictions and create their own standing within a revanchist city. These individuals feature in two comic books published in Canada, Zanta: The Living Legend (2012) and The Dregs (2017), whose originality lies in the heroic role the street person assumes, a legitimate searcher for meaning that sees what most people overlook. In their different format as non-fiction comic and serialized fictional comic we find the expressive visual and narrative potential of the genre and become witnesses of the tribulations of two characters whom the world may consider as deranged but are, however, able to enhance their self-esteem, dismantle ideologies behind assumed notions of respectability, and actively contribute to the city as a place of encounter with difference.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Pemberitaan Media Massa dan Sikap Komunitas LGBT terhadap Self Esteem LGBT di Kota Medan

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-160
Author(s):  
Kamariah Kamariah ◽  
Abdul Munir ◽  
Cut Meutia
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Significant Positive Effect ◽  
Community Attitudes ◽  
The Third ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
The City ◽  
Positive Effect

This purpose is to find out whether the mass media coverage and the attitudes of the LGBT community affect LGBT self esteem in Medan. The research method is quantitative descriptive correlative type with correlative study patterns by placing research variables in two groups, namely independent variables and dependent variables. The study population was the LGBT community in the city of Medan. Sampling uses Proportional Random Sampling technique with a selected sample of 67 people, the data collection method uses the scale of mass media coverage, the scale of community attitudes and the scale of self esteem of the LGBT community. Analysis of research data shows that (1) there is a very significant positive effect between the scale of mass media coverage and the self esteem of the LGBT community, which is indicated by the coefficient rx1y = 0.380 and p 0.01; (2) there is a significant positive effect between community attitudes and influencing community self esteem as indicated by the coefficient rx2y = 0.678 and p 0.01; for the two hypotheses above, the product moment analysis technique is used; (3) there is a significant influence between the mass media coverage and community attitudes with the self-esteem of the LGBT community in the city of Medan as indicated by the coefficient F = 27,341 and the correlation of the three variables namely R = 0.679 while the magnitude of the third contributors R2 = 0.461 with p 0.01 with the meaning of the magnitude of influence is 46.1%. The third hypothesis in this research is to determine the power of mass media coverage and community attitudes towards the emergence of community self esteem, the analysis used is Multiple Regression Analysis.

What's Positive About Self-Verification?

2009 ◽  
pp. 464-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. North ◽  
William B. Swann
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Positive Feedback ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Adaptive Process ◽  
Relationship Partners ◽  
Verification Process ◽  
Underlying Processes ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Shed Light

Self-verification theory assumes that people work to preserve their self-views by seeking to confirm them. As is the case with other processes advocated by positive psychology, self-verification is presumed to be a fundamentally adaptive process. Intrapsychically, self-verification strivings maintain psychological coherence, reduce anxiety, improve physical health, and may foster authenticity. Interpersonally, they encourage people to gravitate toward honest relationship partners, foster trust and intimacy in relationships, and ensure predictability in one's behavior, which further promotes trust. Although self-verification is adaptive overall, it may lead to the perpetuation of negative self-views. Nevertheless, identifying the underlying processes in self-verification may lend insight into how to raise self-esteem. It is posited that to help raise the self-esteem of someone with a negative self-view, one should first provide the person with self-verification and subsequently provide positive feedback that challenges the negative self-views. In these and other instances, understanding the self-verification process more deeply may also shed light on how to define and build happiness.

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