scholarly journals The Accordion Effect: Is Quality in Afterschool Getting the Squeeze?

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-Apr ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Fusco ◽  
Anne Lawrence ◽  
Susan Matloff-Nieves ◽  
Esteban Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Afterschool Programs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Accordion Effect ◽  
Quality Programming ◽  
The Impact

Community-based afterschool programs remain places that support youth development. However, in most places quality is getting the squeeze, making it more difficult to meet the growing needs of youth and parents. This article describes the impact of increased external and regulatory pressures that have taken hold at a time of reduced financial and social capital. In this article, we name the factors that are creating what we call The Accordion Effect and describe its ‘squeezing’ impact on quality programming. We conclude with recommendations for reclaiming quality youth work, a practice that we believe must remain holistic and emergent.

Literacy, Lifelong Learning and the Basic Skills Agenda

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
Joseph Lo Bianco
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Adult Literacy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Industrial Services ◽  
Economic Thinking ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Impact

Literacy is being given increased attention in most developed countries where economic thinking focuses on the assets that could be unlocked from human capital. Within the OECD the discourse within literacy has concerned itself almost exclusively on labour market issues whereas scholarly research on literacy addresses a much wider array of social as well as educational contexts. Under alternative policies inspired by principles and understandings of social capital there would be emphasis on the community based settings, the networks of relationships and social cohesion in which learning takes place and in which what is learned is practised. A range of contexts for the advocacy of literacy policies is explored from which are identified three broad justifications from three mutually reinforcing broad social changes. These relate to the impact of changing economic patterns in the wake of trade liberalisation and the post-industrial services and economy; the impact of cultural diversity and participatory ideals of society; and the impact of communications technology. The particular position of Scotland is explored in the context of a recent report on Adult Literacy and numeracy in that country.

scholarly journals Food poverty and youth work – A community response

2021 ◽  
pp. 026101832199653
Author(s):  
Jon Ord ◽  
Annie Monks
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Impact

This article discusses the findings of a small-scale study investigating the impact of food poverty on youth work in community based open access settings. It documents the growing impact of food poverty on the role of youth work in deprived communities and explores the role youth workers play in addressing it. Firstly this ‘community response’ addresses the issue of food poverty in localities where it arises. However, it not only meets basic needs, but it also helps build social capital by enacting important social relationships associated with food by ‘eating together’. Such responses also have the potential to combat stigma and abjection through the creation of critical consciousness and political education. The research also highlights the need for greater coordination of this response and for youth centres to be less isolated from other services. Finally, the legacy of food policy within youth work is highlighted, previously dominated by a focus on healthy eating since Every Child Matters (2003). Post austerity, for many communities the concern is simply ‘eating’!

THE RESOURCE MOBILIZATION OF COMMUNITY-BASED SOCIAL ENTERPRISES IN TAIWAN

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHU-TWU WANG ◽  
YU-YUAN KUAN ◽  
KAM-TONG CHAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Resource Mobilization ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Trust Network ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Community organizations are often attached to the government's institutional conditions in Taiwan. However, with the government driving its policies, not only are these community organizations developing rapidly, but they also become more self-aware, striving for resources from different sectors on their own initiative and thereby forming the usual bottom-up exercise from civil society. This paper applies social capital and resource mobilization perspectives to study the present situation and characteristics of community-based social enterprise (CBSE) in Taiwan. According to the findings, the incentives provided by the Taiwanese government are truly an important driving force to promote the development of CBSE. The impact of community organizations is the important mechanism to develop CBSE. By the integration of product and innovation, community organizations are important bases to develop social enterprise. In addition, when developing social enterprises, community organizations must follow local society, humanity or products in order to result in social enterprises with local features. Finally, sales of products of CBSE are based on public trust network of communities. For a community organization to invest in developing businesses, it not only needs the force of a collective action to mobilize resources, but it also needs to form public trust within the community. Finally, the development of CBSE is closely related to the community residents, network relationships and trust as advocated by social capital can become vital strengths to support the development of CBSE, and are also media that must be relied on for CBSE to succeed.

scholarly journals Breaking it Down: Defining the Framework & Evaluating the Impact of a Peer Education Program

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Burke Blackburn ◽  
Imaani Greene ◽  
Shintele Malloy ◽  
Rima Himelstein ◽  
Alexandra Hanlon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Peer Education ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Youth Development Programs ◽  
Youth Development Program ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
The Impact

Evaluation in the field of youth development continues to evolve.  Youth development programs vary significantly in their focus, setting and outcomes.  Community-based programs seeking to create or strengthen their evaluation methods and tools may have difficulty identifying what to measure and how to capture anticipated outcomes.  This article focuses on a youth development program combining service learning and peer education, serving urban adolescents ages 14 to 19.  The purposes of this study are: 1) to illustrate a strategy used to clarify and align core activities, anticipated outcomes and evaluation tools, and 2) to provide an overview of the updated data collection instruments created by the program. 

scholarly journals The attainment of social capital with adoelcsent girls living at the intersection of race and poverty in a community-based pedagogical space known as Auntie's Place

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Adrian Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Community Leader ◽  
African American Female ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Scholastic Success ◽  
The Impact

This study examines how Black adolescent girls living at the intersection of race and poverty access social capital through involvement in a community-based pedagogical space known as "Auntie's Place." Employing a theoretical framework that fuses African American female literacies, social capital theory and spirituality, the researcher reviews existing scholarship and primary documents to present an historical examination of how peoples of African descent have created means of education in venues outside of school. These findings inform the educator, community leader and parent who are stakeholders in the lives of Black girls. Based on the historical and empirical research findings, the author argues that educational actors including teachers, administrators, policy makers, and researchers will recognize the impact spirituality and community learning spaces may have on Black girls' self-worth and scholastic success.

Towards a Humanistic Theology of Youth Development: growing through the work of the Romanian theologian Dumitru Staniloae

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Dana Bates
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Test Cases ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Romanian Orthodox ◽  
Practical Implications

This article will introduce to an international and ecumenical audience the Romanian Orthodox theologian Dumitru Staniloae and the Eastern Orthodox approach to salvation. By then correlating Staniloae's theology with current development theories it will demonstrate Orthodoxy's importance for issues young people's development and participation in society, primarily in developing countries. This will be accomplished by correlating Staniloae's Trinitarian theology with two increasingly important development test cases: increasing social capital and reducing corruption. A critical theme to be explored is Orthodoxy's ability to bridge the conceptual chasm between humanistic concerns of the development world (natural theology), and those of salvation and redemption (revealed theology) with several concomitant practical implications for youth work spelled out.

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