PARTNERING IN GERIATRICS WORKFORCE ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMS: MODELS TO ENHANCE COLLABORATION AND ENGAGEMENT

Abstract To achieve their healthcare system transformational goals to improve care for older adults, Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Programs (GWEPs) facilitate the building of strong relationships among academia, community-based organizations, and primary care networks. Each GWEP develops strategies to formalize collaborations and build sustainable networks to meet program goals while addressing partner needs. Unique models from four GWEPs addressing stakeholder engagement are described, and factors facilitating collaboration are explored. One GWEP achieves mutual goals by collaborating with statewide coalitions that have a history of successful partnerships. Another GWEP achieves programmatic goals through an “all-in” interprofessional model called the Plenary. A third GWEP has capitalized on a shared complex outcome that requires multi-level stakeholder engagement to support aging in place. The final GWEP has coopted the resource exchange model as a conceptual foundation in order to enhance collaboration. Themes emerging from these four models include: (1) the enhancement of interpersonal relationships through communication, trust, and engagement; (2) the importance of commitment to the overall partnership itself; (3) the critical component of resource sharing and synergy across projects; and (4) strategies for sustainability in the face of changes and challenges across healthcare systems. Given the complex nature of person-centered interventions in geriatrics, it truly takes a village to develop and provide services for a heterogeneous, targeted population. This symposium emphasizes key elements of the structures and processes of these transformational GWEP villages.

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Standing in the Gap

The Rural Educator ◽

10.35608/ruraled.v34i1.404 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Patricia L. Hardré

Keyword(s):

Student Achievement ◽

Secondary Students ◽

Interpersonal Relationships ◽

Rural Schools ◽

Resource Constraints ◽

Motivational Climate ◽

School Staff ◽

Rural Teachers ◽

The Face ◽

Multi Level

Rural schools face the challenges of motivating and retaining students, often in the face of severe resource constraints. This paper synthesizes fifteen years of the author’s rural research on secondary students’ school-related motivation, distilling it into strategic principles for rural teachers and administrators. Effective motivational knowledge and strategies supported by both theory and research can help school staff fill the gap between potential and actual student achievement. Multi-level strategies for motivating individuals and groups include elements of classroom instructional practice, interpersonal relationships, and the broader school motivational climate including policy. By motivating students effectively, teachers and administrators can bridge the gap between what students do achieve and what they could achieve.

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Conclusion

In a Classroom of Their Own ◽

10.5622/illinois/9780252041730.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 121-138

Author(s):

Keisha Lindsay

Keyword(s):

Public Schools ◽

Black Children ◽

Community Based ◽

Democratic Polity ◽

The Face ◽

History Of ◽

Politics Of Resistance ◽

Educational Advocacy ◽

Barber Shops

Participants in the discourse on AMBS are best situated to assess their own and others’ experiential claims within a specific place and as part of a particular process of educational advocacy. The former is comprised of barber shops, laundromats, libraries, and other accessible, decentralized, community-based arenas that have a history of incubating anti-racist and other politics of resistance. The latter emphasizes the importance of public schools while challenging the quality of such schools available to black children. Such advocacy is ultimately successful when it abides by the two-fold norm that good public schools foster black self-determination in the face of intersecting oppression and also prepare black children of all genders to continually evaluate what life in a democratic polity looks like.

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Toward an Institutional Theory of Community and Community Associations: a Review

Voluntaristics Review ◽

10.1163/24054933-12340027 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 1-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Carl Milofsky

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Institutional Theory ◽

Urban Sociology ◽

Limited Liability ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Organizations ◽

The Past ◽

Community Associations ◽

History Of ◽

Over Time

AbstractThis article argues the position that the symbolic sense of community is a product of action by associations and larger community-based organizations. It draws on a theory from urban sociology called “the community of limited liability.” In the past this theory, first articulated by Morris Janowitz, has mostly been used to argue that residents living in a local neighborhood feel a sense of identification with that area to the extent that the symbolism of that neighborhood has been developed. This article extends Janowitz’s theory to apply to local associations and their efforts to create activities, movements, and products that encourage residents to expand their sense of symbolic attachment to a place. We argue that this organizational method has long been used by local associations but it has not been recognized as an organizational theory. Because associations have used this approach over time, communities have a historical legacy of organizing and symbol creating efforts by many local associations. Over time they have competed, collaborated, and together developed a collective vision of place. They also have created a local interorganizational field and this field of interacting associations and organizations is dense with what we call associational social capital. Not all communities have this history of associational activity and associational social capital. Where it does exist, the field becomes an institutionalized feature of the community. This is what we mean by an institutional theory of community.

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Technical Assistance as a Prevention Capacity-Building Tool: A Demonstration Using the Getting To Outcomes® Framework

Health Education & Behavior ◽

10.1177/1090198108329999 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 36 (5) ◽

pp. 810-828 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Sarah B. Hunter ◽

Matthew Chinman ◽

Patricia Ebener ◽

Pam Imm ◽

Abraham Wandersman ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Technical Assistance ◽

Study Data ◽

Multiple Sources ◽

Community Based ◽

Prevention Programming ◽

Community Based Organizations ◽

High Satisfaction ◽

Performance Accountability ◽

The Face ◽

Getting To Outcomes

Demands on community-based prevention programs for performance accountability and positive outcomes are ever increasing in the face of constrained resources. Relatively little is known about how technical assistance (TA) should be structured to benefit community-based organizations and to lead to better outcomes. In this study, data from multiple sources were used to describe an effective TA model designed to improve the capacity of community-based organizations to plan, implement, and evaluate prevention programming. This article is the first of its kind to provide detailed analyses of the TA delivered to community-based organizations to build substance abuse prevention capacity. The results of this study describe the range of TA services provided and the importance of two-way communication between the TA provider and recipient. TA recipients reported high satisfaction and an improved understanding of targeted TA activities. However, achieving these benefits requires significant program staff time, and not all skills were successfully transferred. Results from this study suggest how TA may be structured to be effective in supporting quality prevention programming in community settings.

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FACTORS FACILITATING COLLABORATION AND ENGAGEMENT: BUILDING AND SUSTAINING STATEWIDE COALITIONS

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igz038.2973 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. S807-S807

Author(s):

Cristine B Henage ◽

Ellen C Schneider ◽

Ellen Roberts ◽

Vicki Tilley ◽

Jan Busby-Whitehead

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Services ◽

Shared Governance ◽

Economies Of Scale ◽

Falls Prevention ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Organizations ◽

History Of ◽

Area Health ◽

Area Health Education Centers

Abstract Sustaining collaboration across multiple community-based organizations (CBOs) creates synergies and economies of scale to support age-friendly communities beyond the provision of direct services any single CBO can achieve. The Carolina Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (CGWEP) created and sustained multiple statewide coalitions focused on geriatrics syndromes. More than 290 CBOs, including Area Health Education Centers, social services programs and nongovernmental organizations, meet quarterly to form linkages, promote education and build infrastructure to support rural and underserved older adults. Shared governance with pooled resources has been achieved because of a long history of partnership, mutually beneficial relationships, flexibility, and frequent communication. The strength of the partnership is evidenced by continued growth in number of CBOs, number of sponsored events, and number of referrals to CBOs. Two coalitions, focused on falls prevention and mental health respectively, have been adopted by partners and sustained beyond grant funding.

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Confident futures: Community-based organizations as first responders and agents of change in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic

Social Science & Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114639 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 114639

Author(s):

Nastasja Ilonka Roels ◽

Amarilys Estrella ◽

Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo ◽

Rayna Rapp ◽

Helena Hansen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

First Responders ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Organizations ◽

Agents Of Change ◽

The Face

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419 PB 098 MINNESOTA INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: A PARTNERSHIP OF THE UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY GROUPS

HortScience ◽

10.21273/hortsci.29.5.491a ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 29 (5) ◽

pp. 491a-491

Author(s):

Helene Murray ◽

Donald L. Wyse ◽

Emily E. Hoover

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Agriculture ◽

Development Economic ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

University Administrators ◽

Community Based ◽

Cooperative Effort ◽

Community Based Organizations ◽

History Of ◽

The University ◽

Rights Issues

Minnesota has a long history of strong citizen involvement in environmental, community development, economic development, and human rights issues. Therefore, it is not surprising there are many individuals, organizations, communities, and educational institutions in Minnesota actively involved in the sustainable agriculture debate. The challenge we face is how to help these strong forces work in collaboration to solve rural problem s. In 1990 representatives of five community-based organizations and the U of M agreed to form the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA) to be housed at the University and governed by a board of community and University representatives. The purpose of MISA is to bring farmers and other sustainable agriculture community interests together with University administrators, educators, researchers, and students in a cooperative effort to undertake innovative, agenda-setting programs that might not otherwise be pursued in the state.

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Strategic Imagining: Expanding Publicly Engaged Scholarship by Building Institutions and Individuals

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v4i2.157 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Timothy K. Eatman

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Public Life ◽

Engaged Scholarship ◽

Research Groups ◽

Community Based ◽

Good Fortune ◽

Community Based Organizations ◽

Individual Work ◽

History Of

It has been my good fortune to be in fellowship with George Sánchez for just about a decade now. While it has been quite tempting to use this opportunity to simply celebrate all that he has meant to me personally in my life and career, my call for this issue was to share reflections on the generative potential of having collaborated with Dr. George J. Sánchez as part of Imagining America: Artist and Scholars in Public Life (IA). As a national consortium of higher-education institutions and community-based organizations dedicated to activating the power of the humanities, arts, and design both within the academy and in our larger society, IA promotes publicly engaged scholarship with conferences, research groups, and strategic organizing that affirm community-based knowledge and draw on the humanistic methodologies of the cultural disciplines. I discuss the goals and reach of Imagining America as well as responses to the dynamically creative and community-centered approaches driving it. In the exchange recorded in this article, edited from an interview we had in November 2016, we touch on a range of issues, beginning with his own autobiographical call to engaged scholarship and then drilling down to various layers of his strategic imagining as it manifests in both his institutional and individual work. Sánchez reflects on how he discovered IA and then in strategic and imaginative ways used that discovery to build on his approaches to research and organizing, thereby making an impact as a publicly engaged scholar in ways that do not often register in the academy. In particular, he addresses issues of diversity and the history of community-engaged work.

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The Oral History of Photographs: Collaboration, Multi-Level Engagement, and Insights from the Adrian Paton Collection

KULA knowledge creation dissemination and preservation studies ◽

10.5334/kula.4 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Craig Harkema ◽

Keith Carlson

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Oral History ◽

Community Members ◽

Community Based ◽

Local Organizations ◽

Transformative Potential ◽

Wide Range ◽

History Of ◽

Multi Level ◽

The University

This paper outlines notable features of the Adrian Paton Photo and Oral History Collection at the Saskatchewan History & Folklore Society (SHFS) and discusses aspects of the relationships formed between the local collector, faculty at the University of Saskatchewan, the SHFS, and members of the community-based cultural heritage digitization project during the collection’s creation and curation. We also outline the benefits and challenges for university-led digital projects that seek to partner with a wide range of participants, with a focus on community members, local organizations, and students enrolled in programs at their institution. Additionally, we discuss the transformative potential of such partnerships for academic institutions and what to consider when entering into collaborations of this nature.

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