Strategie e azioni di community building per contrastare la povertà educativa: gli apprendimenti del Gruppo Cooperativo CGM

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
Flaviano Zandonai ◽  
Simona Taraschi
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Case Manager ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Santa Cecilia

Il contributo proposto si basa sulla presentazione analitica e di taglio valutativo di alcune azioni progettuali di contrasto alla povertà educativa realizzate negli ultimi anni e che hanno consentito sia di rafforzare il sistema di offerta sia di promuovere comunità capaci di eserci-tare una funzione autenticamente educante. Nello specifico con "Family Hub Mondi per Crescere" (capofila consorzio Co&So, Firenze) viene presa in considerazione la figura del case manager. Il progetto "Icam" (Istituto Caute-la Attenuata Madri Detenute - Comune di Milano, Ministero della Giustizia, cooperativa so-ciale Genera) ha ricreato un contesto di "normalità" per lo sviluppo armonioso dei bambini e delle loro mamme nell'ambiente carcerario. La cura e il coinvolgimento del territorio e del-la comunità come valore per contrastare la povertà educativa sono azioni del progetto "Co-munità Santa Cecilia" (cooperativa Paolo Babini, Forlì). Infine "Passi Piccoli" (capofila cooperativa Koinè, Milano) ha utilizzato come strumento per prevenire la povertà educativa il coinvolgimento e l'inclusione di spazi e soggetti della città. L'analisi scongiunta sui quattro progetti è svolta attraverso interviste e focus group con i project manager locali in modo da approfondire anche il ruolo dei "sistemi esperti" che a livello locale orchestrano reti di servizi e azioni di community building.

Group sex in the time of COVID: Intimacy, learning, and community-building in sexual communities during a pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. e20210014
Author(s):  
Anabelle Bernard Fournier ◽  
Karyn Fulcher ◽  
Leah Shumka ◽  
Nathan J. Lachowsky
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Community Advisory Board ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Group Sex

Introduction: COVID-19 has had a profound effect on every aspect of contemporary life, including sexuality. Physical distancing measures and limitations on large gatherings explicitly restrict in-person group sex events. We sought to understand how the pandemic and associated public health control measures have affected group sex practitioners and activities. Methods: We used a community-based participatory research approach. In fall 2019, we recruited a Community Advisory Board (CAB) of group sex key informants via community agencies, social media, and relevant websites (e.g., FetLife, Squirt). To be eligible, participants had to be at least 18 years old and have recently participated in a local group sex event (i.e. sex, broadly defined, with more than 3 people). Ethics approval was secured for the CAB as a longitudinal focus group study. Focus group meetings were audio recorded, transcribed, and thematically analyzed. In December 2019, participants were asked about definitions of group sex. In May 2020, participants were asked about COVID-19 impacts. Results: Key informants shared that due to COVID-19 restrictions, group sex events were cancelled and participants only had sex with others they were isolating with. Participants emphasized the challenges of isolation, the need to be patient, but also the opportunities associated with isolation. Participants reported attending online group sex events (e.g. Zoom orgies) as well as skill-building classes (e.g. rope bondage). Participants anticipated in-person events in the future, but felt that moving online opened up new opportunities for community-building. Conclusions: Participants adhered to physical distancing protocols and quickly adapted to social isolation through innovative use of technology.

‘To really trust [...] we had to be open with ourselves and each other’: Community building through Spring Awakening

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-111
Author(s):  
Julie K. Hagen ◽  
Jennifer Thomas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Spring Awakening ◽  
Narrative Ethnography ◽  
The Subject

The purpose of this ethnographic study was to better understand how participation in St. Lawrence University’s (New York, the United States) production of Spring Awakening served as a means of intimate and broader community building. This narrative ethnography investigated the director and a focus group of actors involved in the production of Spring Awakening. Analyses of the data revealed four themes: content, interconnectedness, emotion and vulnerability and magic. St. Lawrence University students welcomed and embraced the language, the music and the subject matter presented to them in the content of Spring Awakening. The willingness with which the students opened up to conversation and community continued to resonate with them in an interconnectedness that seemingly had more depth and more meaning than other productions they have worked on, including other musical theatre productions.

When SNS use Doesn't Trigger e-Participation

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wairagala Wakabi ◽  
Åke Grönlund
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Civic Skills ◽  
Interest Organizations ◽  
Western Democracies

Numerous scholars have concluded that there is a correlation between use of social network sites (SNS), particularly for news and information acquisition or community building, and the likelihood for e-Participation. This paper examines how the use of Facebook affects the participative behaviours of individuals active in political and interest organizations and those not active in organized politics. Through focus group discussions involving 56 Ugandans, we conclude that in low internet use, authoritarian contexts, the Civic Voluntarism Model and the benefits Facebook brings to participation in Western democracies are turned on their head. Besides overwhelming detachment from politics, even for politically-inclined citizens, low belief in citizens' online actions influencing change and fear of reprisals for criticizing an authoritarian president in power for 29 years, severely dulled the appetite for e-Participation. This high cost of participation means Facebook is growing citizens' civic skills but it is hardly increasing online participation even for politically interested citizens.

When SNS Use Doesn't Trigger E-Participation

2019 ◽  
pp. 1125-1142
Author(s):  
Wairagala Wakabi ◽  
Åke Grönlund
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Civic Skills ◽  
Interest Organizations ◽  
Western Democracies

Numerous scholars have concluded that there is a correlation between use of social network sites (SNS), particularly for news and information acquisition or community building, and the likelihood for e-Participation. This paper examines how the use of Facebook affects the participative behaviours of individuals active in political and interest organizations and those not active in organized politics. Through focus group discussions involving 56 Ugandans, we conclude that in low internet use, authoritarian contexts, the Civic Voluntarism Model and the benefits Facebook brings to participation in Western democracies are turned on their head. Besides overwhelming detachment from politics, even for politically-inclined citizens, low belief in citizens' online actions influencing change and fear of reprisals for criticizing an authoritarian president in power for 29 years, severely dulled the appetite for e-Participation. This high cost of participation means Facebook is growing citizens' civic skills but it is hardly increasing online participation even for politically interested citizens.

Writing Funding Proposals for Speech-Language Staff Development Projects

1982 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-171
Author(s):  
Carol A. Esterreicher ◽  
Ralph J. Haws
Keyword(s):  
Staff Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
School Environments ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
Special Programs

Speech-language pathologists providing services to handicapped children have pointed out that special education in-service programs in their public school environments frequently do not satisfy the need for updating specific diagnostic and therapy skills. It is the purpose of this article to alert speech-language pathologists to PL 94-142 regulations providing for personnel development, and to inform them of ways to seek state funding for projects to meet their specialized in-service needs. Although a brief project summary is included, primarily the article outlines a procedure whereby the project manager (a speech-language pathologist) and the project director (an administrator in charge of special programs in a Utah school district) collaborated successfully to propose a staff development project which was funded.

Innovatives Leistungsmanagement führt zu mehr Professionalität, Effizienz und Kundennutzen

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 819-826
Author(s):  
Olaf Schäfer ◽  
Denise A. Camenisch
Keyword(s):  
Case Manager

Zusammenfassung. Innovatives Leistungsmanagement im Bereich der Kranken-, Krankentaggeld- und Unfallversicherung braucht evidenzbasierte, systemunterstützte Instrumente im Abwicklungsprozess. Helsana investiert in Methoden und Modelle zur evidenzbasierten Früherkennung von gesundheitlichen Beeinträchtigungen mit dem Risiko zur Chronifizierung. Parallel dazu werden fortlaufend Lösungsmassnahmen erarbeitet. Ein Beispiel für eine solche Lösung ist die Reintegration-Toolbox (RE Toolbox), die Helsana gemeinsam mit dem Schweizerischen Versicherungsverband SVV und IT-Partnern entwickelt hat. Die Lösung gleicht einzelne Krankheitsbilder oder Unfälle mit einer jeweiligen Kohorte ab. Dabei wird bestimmt, ob sich die einzelne Person zu ihrer Vergleichsgruppe im Normbereich der Arbeitsunfähigkeit verhält oder ob es Auffälligkeiten gibt und Massnahmen eingeleitet werden müssen. Die Gesundheitskosten und die Arbeitsunfähigkeit je Krankheits- oder Unfalldiagnose sind statistisch erhoben und hinterlegt. Sie dienen der Grobeinschätzung eines Falles bzw. zur Früherkennung von chronischen Entwicklungen. Eine weitere Lösung ist das Befragungsinstrument «StayWell». Für die Stabilisierung eines Menschen nach einem schweren Unfall, bei langandauernder Krankheit oder in der (Re-) Integrationsphase braucht es für den Erfolg die aktive Einbindung aller involvierten Parteien. In Zusammenarbeit mit Branchenpartnern, vor allem Arbeitgebern, hat Helsana das standardisierte, wissenschaftlich fundierte und systemunterstützte Befragungsinstrument «StayWell» entwickelt. Dieses erhebt die Potenziale und Handlungsdefizite der jeweiligen Person im persönlichen Kontext und in ihrer Arbeitssituation. Der Arbeitgeber oder Case Manager erhebt mittels eines Fragebogens die Ist-Situation. Dadurch werden individuell geeigneten Koordinations- und Stabilisierungsmassnahmen schneller erkannt und effizienter umgesetzt. Das Instrument ermöglicht eine schnellere Stabilisierung und damit einen höheren Gesundheitsnutzen für die Betroffenen und deren Arbeitgeber, sowie Kosteneinsparungen für alle Beteiligten.

Voices of a Community: Community Building for People With AIDS

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 1004-1005
Author(s):  
Sybil G. Hosek ◽  
Erika D. Felix ◽  
Leonard A. Jason
Keyword(s):  
Community Building

The Handbook for Focus Group Research.

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
Group Research
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