Community Development and Place-Based Neighborhood Change

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry M. Gant
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Neighborhood Change ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The University

Abstract: This chapter describes the model of community development used by the University of Michigan School of Social Work’s Technical Assistance Center (UMSSW/TAC). The chapter presents a definition and description of community development as a distinct model of community practice. The chapter discusses the goals of community development, core values and principles of community development. The chapter summarizes the role of place based initiatives in community development. The limits and challenges of discerning the evidence base of the effectiveness of community development are reviewed, and an emerging perspective of possibilities of evidence based community development is outlined. The chapter ends with thoughtful considerations about the tactical use of community development within municipal communities during Detroit’s more recent times of turbulent economic, financial and political change.

scholarly journals The Role of Students as Agent of Change in Empowering Micro Enterprises

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Faizal Ahmad ◽  
Ety Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Business Partners ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
The University ◽  
Micro Enterprises

Some studies can confirmed that micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) represent themselves as highly significant collective actors of developments in all geographic contexts. Although the studies that see contributions of university in the MSME empowerment is still minimal and less comprehensive. As an intellectual actor, the university has a wide range of areas of expertise that can be exploited more broadly to the community than to the extent of classroom learning. And through a intensive, specific and distinctive assistance model, this study would like to explore what and how the role of students as a representation of the university as well as a agent of change in empowering micro enterprises. The method used in this study is a qualitative by interviewing some informants in the Community Development Program 2017 initiated by the University of Prasetiya Mulya which is directly related to the process of empowering micro enterprises. This study found some of the dominant and specific roles such as educators, researchers and evaluators. Coupled with several empowerment roles such as building relationships and consensus as well as providing technical assistance related to some aspects in business management. As well as other common roles that appear in the assistance process like enablers, motivators, facilitators, initiators, and brokers. With a live-in model in business partners’ house adopted by the Community Development Program, students have many opportunities and roles to explore methods of enhancing the capacity of business partners through intensive assistance and practical learning in developing a business.

scholarly journals “No me des el pescado, enséñame a pescar” “Do not hand me fish, teach me how to fish” Community Lawyering in Puerto Rico: Promoting empowerment and self-help

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Myrta Morales-Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Fish Community ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Development Section ◽  
The People ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Special Meaning

<p>Law 232 of August 27, 2004 has a special meaning to the people residing in some of Puerto Rico's poorest communities. It was the result of the hard work, during a period of a year and a half, of leaders from some of these communities and my students, the students of the community development section of the Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Puerto Rico’s School of Law. The story of Law 232 can provide insight into what the role of a lawyer can be in the battle against poverty. To understand the story of this Puerto Rican law, one has to go back to August of 2002. During that month the University of Puerto Rico's School of Law Legal Aid Clinic inaugurated its community development section.</p>

scholarly journals The Role of Community Coordinated Efforts in Combating the Opioid Overdose Crisis: The Pennsylvania Opioid Overdose Reduction Technical Assistance Center

Commonwealth ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn S. Mirigian ◽  
Marco F. Pugliese ◽  
Janice L. Pringle ◽  
Monica F. Gaydos
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Opioid Overdose ◽  
Implementation Framework ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Implementation Evaluation ◽  
Data Assessment ◽  
The University ◽  
Safety First

The Pennsylvania Opioid Overdose Reduction Technical Assistance Center (TAC) was developed by the University of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy, Program Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) and funded by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) in response to the need for local coordination and supported efforts to address the growing number of opioid overdoses in Pennsylvania. This article outlines the TAC’s initiatives to address this crisis in 42 counties across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, stressing the importance of communication and collaboration both within and between communities, such as public health, public safety, first responders, physicians, the criminal justice system, and families. The TAC uses the Implementation Framework (IF) developed by Dr. Janice Pringle to achieve accurate data assessment and the effective implementation, evaluation, and sustainability of programs.

The Fairfield Makerspace

2019 ◽  
pp. 130-157
Keyword(s):  
Learning Communities ◽  
Transcendental Meditation ◽  
First Year ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
Green Belt ◽  
The University ◽  
The Town ◽  
University Community

The Fairfield Makerspace is located in the green belt corn growing area in the southeastern portion of Iowa, USA. The town hosts the Maharishi University of Management (MUM), which is unlike any university in the Midwest in that most members of the university community practice transcendental meditation (TM). This practice has led to a general misunderstanding between the university community and those that do not practice TM. MUM opened the Fairfield Makerspace in response to the mistrust between the town and the university. The role of the makerspace is to find commonality between communities in the areas of making and sustainable living. The space was finding its footing as it began their first year of operation. Learning communities are formed through workshops and special meetups called Transformation Tuesdays, where members upcycle items. This chapter explores the Fairfield Makerspace.

Lessons Learned

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Allen-Meares ◽  
Leslie Hollingsworth ◽  
Patricia L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Outcomes For Children ◽  
School Of Social Work ◽  
The University

Abstract: Chapter 12 is organized very differently from earlier chapters in this volume. It contains a list of lessons learned from those associated with the University of Michigan School of Social Work/Technical Assistance Center (UMSSW/TAC) and includes observations from those deeply involved in the Good Neighborhoods project. These observations and insights are divided into topical areas, but the list does not reflect a rank order of lessons learned or priorities. They are instead reflections on a multiyear initiative to create better outcomes for children and youth living in an urban context undergoing vast social and economic changes and challenges, some of which were adverse (see Chapter 2).

The role of the medical students in influenza pandemic response

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Waight, MD ◽  
Abeba Berhane, MD ◽  
Lorenzo Orton, MD ◽  
Sandro Cinti, MD ◽  
John E. Billi, MD ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Influenza Pandemic ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Specific Patient ◽  
Michigan Medical School ◽  
Pandemic Response ◽  
Pandemic Flu ◽  
The University

Objectives: To better define the role of the medical students in the event of a disaster requiring a surge response in healthcare systems.Setting: The University of Michigan Medical School and Health System, where staffing plans for a pandemic flu were actively taking place.Subjects: All medical students at the University of Michigan.Interventions: The authors surveyed medical students to evaluate how they felt they could contribute during a pandemic flu.Results: Of the students who completed the survey, 88 percent of the respondents felt that students should formally be incorporated into the health system’s staffing plan during a pandemic. This survey further identified the specific patient care tasks that students felt comfortable performing, which may be of value to medical school and hospital administration that are considering inclusion of medical students into their pandemic planning.Conclusions: There should be formal inclusion of medical students into health systems’ staffing plans in the case of pandemic flu, as they are valuable first responders who are both willing and able to participate in the pandemic response.

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