Innovation Center Press Releases

Webinar Highlight- Exploring Youth Governance:Strategies for youth-serving organizations and networks

Ana — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:10:42 -0400

Host Organization: Building Partnerships for Youth, National 4-H Council and the University of Arizona

Webinar Title: Exploring Youth Governance:Strategies for youth-serving organizations and networks

Date: August 19, 2010

Presenter: Carla M. Roach, Ph.D., Senior Director Innovation Center for Community & Youth Development

Highlighted Activity- Examining Youth-Adult Partnerships

Ana — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:19:39 -0400

Creating authentic youth-adult partnership require both parties to overcome traditional youth and adult roles. It takes work, commitment, and intentionality. Role-playing is one of the ways IC trainers help young people and adults prepare for youth-adult partnerships. This activity, from the IC’s toolkit Creating Youth-Adult Partnerships, familiarizes participants with the dynamics of typical youth-adult relationships and challenges participants to improve their own relationships in constructive ways.

Highlighted Activity: Evaluation Warm-Up Cookie Exercise

Ana — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:06:06 -0400

Service-learning – and all good community change work – places a strong emphasis on reflection. When reflection is intentional – guided by specific goals and questions – it is a powerful way to learn from our experiences, evaluate our progress, and make improvements to future work. This activity, from the Innovation Center’s Reflect and Improve toolkit, sets the stage for constructive and meaningful reflection by introducing participants to the basic principles of evaluation.

Highlighted Activity: Perceptions of Power

Ana — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:30:27 -0500

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Highlighted Activity: Community Gridding Exercise

Ana — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:44:29 -0500

Sometimes, one of the greatest barriers to using the outdoors as a space for learning is simply knowing what natural resources your community offers. When framed in the context of natural or environmental resources, community gridding engages participants in visualizing their community’s space with a fresh perspective.

Highlighted Activity: Talking the Talk

Ana — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:13:10 -0500

This activity, “Talking the Talk,” was one of the most effective and popular activities from the Learning Group Meeting. It engages participants in actively learning about the principles and process of both collective leadership and service-learning.

Highlighted Activity: Defining "Youth" and "Adult"

Ana — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:09:01 -0500

Working in collaboration requires bringing different groups together. Bridging gaps is a central feature of collective leadership; the gap most often bridged while using this approach is one of age. This work is sometimes difficult and always requires intentionality. Defining “youth” and “adult” – or at least discussing varying definitions of the terms – can ease the process. How do you define “youth”? How do you define “adult”?

Highlighted Activity: Mapping the Sectors of Involvement

Ana — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:24:48 -0400

Community work is strengthened when we involve a rich mix of people and organizations in our efforts. However, in recruiting partners for community work, we too often look only to the usual suspects– companies, corporations, and formal volunteer organizations. These are strong partners to enlist, but we should also consider the many informal sectors and networks that are also a part of our communities – recreational sports leagues, parent networks, high school clubs, even social media networks like those on Facebook. This activity encourages you to include all

Learn & Serve Appeal: Collective Leadership Works!

Ana — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:21:51 -0400

Activity of the Month: Teaching and Learning, appreciating mutual relationships

Ana — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:55:30 -0400

In service-learning, participants teach others as much as they learn themselves. This dynamic – simultaneous teaching and learning – is part of what makes service-learning so effective. However, it is often difficult to break out of the traditional, prescribed student and teacher roles. This simple activity introduces participants to the idea that they can be at once both a teacher and a learner.

Innovation Center Initiative Uses Service-Learning to Address Diabetes, Violence, and Environmental Issues

Ana — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:54:31 -0400

INNOVATION CENTER INITIATIVE USES SERVICE-LEARNING TO ADDRESS DIABETES, VIOLENCE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

– Innovation Center Approved for Corporation for National and Community Service Grant –

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ana Maria Thomas
Phone: (202) 316-0221
Email: athomas@theinnovationcenter.org

KENYA PEACE PARTNERSHIPS: WOMEN AND YOUTH BUILDING NON-VIOLENT COMMUNITIES

Ana — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:04:22 -0400