Western Bulldogs Sons of the West Program ripple effects: building community capacity

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Lucio Naccarella ◽  
David Pickering-Gummer ◽  
Dimity Gannon ◽  
Catherine Dell'Aquila ◽  
Alyssa Huxtable ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Ripple Effect ◽  
The West ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Ripple Effects ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Improvement Programs

Professional sporting organisations can provide lifestyle-based community health improvement programs. Since 2014, the Western Bulldogs Australian Football League Club, through its Western Bulldogs Community Foundation (WBCF), has invested with community partners in the Sons of the West (SOTW) Program, a 10-week program targeted at hard-to-reach men aged ≥18 years living in Victoria’s West. The SOTW Program aims to increase its participants’ physical activity, social connectedness and overall health. Evaluations by the WBCF revealed the SOTW is positively contributing to improved healthier lifestyles and health of participants. Anecdotal reports revealed the SOTW was creating ripples far beyond the Program’s expectations. In 2016–17, the WBCF funded the University of Melbourne to evaluate the SOTW Program ripple effects. An adapted ‘Ripple Effect Mapping’ approach was used, including 13 focus group discussions with 100 SOTW participants. The SOTW Program is improving men’s social connections, health promoting behaviours, health literacy and creating ripple effects including: local community participation; increased volunteerism; enhanced reciprocity; and increased leadership. Community capacity-building frameworks can explain the SOTW Program ripple effects. Professional sporting organisations can provide lifestyle-based health improvement programs and empower men to contribute to building community capacity.

scholarly journals Putting Community Based Tourism into Practice

2016 ◽  
pp. 65-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonya R. Graci
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Negative Impacts

To move towards sustainability, tourism must contribute to the empowerment of local communities. This can be achieved through community participation in decision-making where essential information is gained, with the early stages of empowerment allowing the community to determine their own development (Cole, 2006). Community capacity building ensures the benefit of tourism to the local community by developing skills and entrepreneurial spirit to become part of the tourism industry, which will lead to the reduction of negative impacts. This article focuses on the community of Moose Factory that used a community based approach to create one of the world’s top ecolodges. It was collaboratively developed in an attempt to provide economic, social and cultural livelihoods. Strategies used to develop and involve the community will be discussed.

scholarly journals MODELS OF COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING FOR HOMESTAY MANAGEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Ilham Junaid
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Building Model ◽  
Capacity Model ◽  
Marketing Principles

Tourists' visits to rural areas are increasingly experiencing growth. However, the community has not taken advantage of tourism as an opportunity to increase income. The research aims to identify the factors driving and inhibiting homestay management by the community, analyze the community's capacities and opportunities for homestay management, and propose a community capacity-building model for homestay management. This research employs a qualitative approach through a case study in Maen Village, Likupang, North Minahasa Regency. The research was carried out in 2020 through two periods of visits with interviews with residents and observation. The research reveals that the community had not yet optimized their house as a homestay. Residents' houses only serve as lodging for mining workers. However, residents do not mind providing their house as an accommodation based on homestay management principles. The strategic location of Maen Village, the hospitality of the residents, and the use of people's houses as lodging are the driving forces for homestay management. A weak understanding of homestay is a challenge for most residents. Community capacity still needs to be improved with various training programs. This study proposes two homestay management models and development, including, entrepreneurial-based community capacity model and a homestay management model based on digital marketing principles. This research validates the concept of community capacity through homestay management. In addition, the paper provides an insight on how to utilize the opportunities possessed by the local community to obtain alternative income through homestay management. 

Evaluating an African American Teen Father's Intervention: Building Community Capacity

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon D. Caldwell ◽  
Kristie M. Fleming ◽  
Roneferiti M. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Building Community

Building Community Capacity to Care for Military and Veteran Families: The Star Behavioral Health Providers Program

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth ◽  
David Topp ◽  
Kathy Broniarczyk ◽  
Scott A. Edwards ◽  
David Riggs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Building Community

Building Community Capacity

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-643
Author(s):  
Edward J. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Community Capacity ◽  
Building Community
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