scholarly journals Storytelling and Arts to Facilitate Community Capacity Building for Urban Planning and Social Work

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Crystal Taylor ◽  
Qinghong Wei
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Community Activists ◽  
Authentic Dialogue ◽  
Arts Programs ◽  
Negative Feelings

Creating social connections and fostering engagement in communities is a growing challenge for community work. Planners, social workers, and community activists are starting to look towards the arts and storytelling as a way to promote community capacity. A community in Lopez Island, Washington, facing sustainable housing and agricultural issues brought in a two-day storytelling and theatre program to build capacity for their ecosocial work. This research describes facilitator engagement methodology and pilots a community capacity survey to evaluate the experience of workshop participants. Preliminary results show that the storytelling program makes strides in deepening connections to others and generating authentic dialogue. Participants reported both positive experiences of building trust and negative feelings of vulnerability. As funding can be a major barrier for community groups to incorporate arts programs, this research introduces a preliminary survey that communities can adapt and improve upon to help them start gathering evidence-based data for assessing measures of community capacity. Though the facilitators brought unique theatrical and choreographic skills to the programming, planners and social workers can take away for practice a simple storytelling exercise that participants enthusiastically expressed fostered listening, trust, and connection.

Art and Community Capacity-Building

2017 ◽  
pp. 499-523
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Lewis ◽  
Eleanor K. Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Action Theory ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Franklin County ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Arts Programs ◽  
Healthcare Program

Arts programs are increasingly becoming part of public engagement in the context of community health but have mostly been studied in urban and suburban locations. This chapter outlines a successful partnership between an arts in healthcare program and a community health coalition in rural Franklin County, Florida, an area struck by natural and human-made disasters. During a five-year period, the organizations worked in partnership to address the “fragmentation” of the community and its health services and to build community and organizational capacity for public health planning using the arts. The partnership sustained engagement with a variety of communities and institutions in Franklin County, Florida, conducted community assessments, developed public murals and mosaics, created community gardens, gathered stories, and employed Boalian theater strategies. The case study examines the partnership through the lens of a “Community Coalition Action Theory” framework, offering a narrative of a unique partnership (Butterfoss & Kegler, 2002).

Community work models in Taiwan? The experiences of social workers’ service for the communities affected by Typhoon Morakot

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 1131-1145
Author(s):  
Yih-jiunn Lee ◽  
Ya-Huei Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Typhoon Morakot ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Community Work ◽  
Practical Experiences

This article aims to extract community work models based on the practical experiences of community workers in Taiwan. A set of 10 selected variables, amended from Rothman, was employed in analyzing the community workers’ experiences of community capacity building for the 26 communities affected by Typhoon Morakot. Four model prototypes were inducted as ‘service and demonstrate’, ‘training and tutoring’, ‘stimulating and encouraging’, and ‘consensus action’. These models are meaningful for showing the practical application and knowledge inheritance of Western community theories and models.

The importance of passionate individuals for navigating school arts provision in 19 Australian schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 1321103X2110325
Author(s):  
Katrina Skewes McFerran ◽  
Alexander HD Crooke ◽  
Megan Steele ◽  
John Hattie ◽  
Gary E McPherson
Keyword(s):  
Student Development ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Traditional School ◽  
School Communities ◽  
School Activities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Leadership Support ◽  
Arts Programs

Arts programs are increasingly recognized for their role in promoting student development and cohesive school communities. Yet, most Australian schools are left to navigate a landscape characterized by shifting policy goals and external providers of diverse quality and intent. Drawing on interviews with 27 stakeholders from 19 Catholic primary schools in Melbourne, Australia, we explored key approaches to arts provision in this context, and conditions that hinder and support it. Approaches varied markedly, from school-wide programs embedded across the curriculum, to one-off incursions. Conditions consistently affecting provision ranged from leadership support to a community’s view of the arts. Programs regularly relied on individuals passionate about arts to go beyond their paid roles, yet this frequently jeopardized sustainability. Overall, the approaches identified, and conditions affecting their sustainability, reveal a lack of value for school arts at policy and administration levels. This lack of value is not demonstrated in the provision of other traditional school activities like math or literacy, which begs consideration by policymakers and school administrators.

scholarly journals Peningkatan Kapasitas Masyarakat Dalam Mengurangi Risiko Bencana Di Desa Bandung Rejo Kabupaten Gorontalo

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Syahrizal Koem ◽  
Noviar Akase ◽  
Irwan Muis
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Building Program ◽  
And Training

The community capacity building program in reducing disaster risk aims to realize the Bandung Rejo village as a disaster resilient village. Efforts made to achieve community capacity building include: (1) institutional aspects through the establishment of Disaster Risk Management forums (DRR) and Community Disaster Preparedness Teams (CDPT), (2) aspects of capacity building through dissemination and training in the preparation of disaster management plans and contingency plans , (3) aspects of the implementation of disaster management through a program to create a threat map and create disaster warning signs. The establishment of DRR and CDPT forums has a strategic role in minimizing disaster risk. The results achieved from the socialization and training were the availability of Bandung Rejo village disaster risk analysis document. The document can be a reference in making development policies in the village. Based on the results of the analysis conducted by the forum that Bandung Rejo village had a flood hazard level in the medium category. The results of identification and analysis obtained two flood-prone points that were able to reach agricultural land and facilities and infrastructure facilities. The implementation of community capacity building programs in Bandung Rejo village can provide stimulus to local governments and the public about the importance of disaster anticipation.

scholarly journals Empowerment of Aisyiyah members through the application of GERMAS on aspects of drug storage at home

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 1192-1198
Author(s):  
Much Ilham Novalisa Aji Wibowo ◽  
Dina Ratna Juwita
Keyword(s):  
Community Organization ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Test Methods ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Drug Storage ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Training ◽  
At Home

The government has implemented the Healthy Living Community Movement (GERMAS) program through promotion of the pharmaceutical sector related to drug storage at home. However, there are still many problems in storing household medicines in the community. This activity was carried out through a community empowerment approach using the community capacity building method for a community organization, Aisyiyah, which consists of Muslim women in the Grendeng village, Purwokerto. This activity ws carried out in stages, namely pre-test methods, lectures, group teaching, self-empowerment through peer teaching and training, and measuring the success of activities using post-tests. Based on the whole series of activities, the knowledge of partners about storing medicines at home has increased in a good category.

scholarly journals Developing trauma resilient communities through community capacity-building

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd P. Gilmer ◽  
Kimberly Center ◽  
Danielle Casteel ◽  
Kyle Choi ◽  
Debbie Innes-Gomberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Stress Tolerance ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Community Connectedness ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Trauma is a significant public health issue, negatively impacting a range of health outcomes. Providers and administrators in public mental health systems recognize the widespread experience of trauma, as well as their limited ability to address trauma within their communities. In response, the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health funded nine regionally based community partnerships to build capacity to address trauma. We describe partnership and community capacity-building efforts and examine community impact, defined as successful linkages to resources and changes in stress tolerance capacities among community members. Methods We conceptualized community capacity-building as dissemination of trauma-informed education and training, community outreach and engagement, and linkage of community members to resources. We measured trauma-informed trainings among partnership members (N = 332) using the Trauma-Informed Organizational Toolkit. Outreach, engagement and linkages were documented using Event and Linkage Trackers. We examined changes in the type of successful linkage after the issuance of statewide mandatory restrictions in response to COVID-19. We examined changes in stress tolerance capacities among community members (N = 699) who were engaged in ongoing partnership activities using the 10-item Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale; the 28-item Coping Orientation to Problems; and the pictorial Inclusion of Community in Self Scale. Results Training and education opportunities were widespread: 66% of members reported opportunities for training in 13 or more trauma-informed practices. Partnerships conducted over 7800 community capacity-building events with over 250,000 attendees. Nearly 14,000 successful linkages were made for a wide range of resources, with consistent linkage success prior to (85%) and during (87%) the pandemic. In response to COVID-19, linkage type significantly shifted from basic services and health care to food distribution (p < .01). Small but significant improvements occurred in coping through emotional and instrumental support; and sense of community connectedness (p < .05 each). Conclusions Community-based partnerships demonstrated effective capacity-building strategies. Despite the pandemic, community members did not report reduced stress tolerance, instead demonstrating gains in external help-seeking (use of emotional and instrumental supports) and perception of community connectedness. Future work will use qualitative methods to examine the impact of community capacity-building and the sustainability of this approach for addressing the impact of trauma within communities.

scholarly journals The Teaching Didactics of Álvaro Siza

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Luz Pinto ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The State ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Arts Programs ◽  
One Year ◽  
Alvaro Siza

Álvaro Siza Vieira (1933) began his training at the Architecture Department of the School of Fine Arts in Porto (EBAP) in 1949, one year after the 1st Congress of Portuguese Architects (1948), which became known as the congress of modern architects. There were two fine arts schools at the time in Portugal, in Porto and Lisbon (EBAP and EBAL), both with an equivalent curriculum that was coordinated by the state. Siza attended the course based on the “beaux arts” programs of 1932, concluding the curricular part of his course in 1955 and presenting his final graduation design in 1965. But by this time, Portuguese education in the arts had already switched to “modern”curricula (1952-57 Reform). The following year, having already seen some of his important works built, Siza began his career as assistant professor at the school in Porto.

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