26 research outputs found
Collective Impact Partnership and Backbone Organizations as Enablers of Children’s Well-Being
In this article, the question of partnership is approached from a perspective centred around the creation of a common agenda based on trust and from the children´s point of view. Partnership and collaboration have traditionally been viewed as mechanisms to create bridges between organisations and institutions from the private, public and non-governmental sectors in order to enhance funder collaboratives, public-private partnerships, multi-stakeholder initiatives, social sector networks and collective impact initiatives. It was not however until Kania and Kramer´s (2011) seminal work on collective impact when this subject came to be viewed as a developmental process aiming at the creation of a common agenda and mutually agreed activities and consisting of five integral parts: a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication and backbone support organisations. This article, based on a systematic review of the topic, maintains that partnership – approached from the point of view of children and through the lens of collective impact – constitutes a crucial mechanism in the creation of safe and comprehensive wellbeing for children. Thus, this article – using Kania and Kramer´s (2011) definition of collective impact and focusing on the structure of partnerships and the nature of trust in organisations as the prerequisite for partnership – advocates the importance of the UN SDG17 principle as the bringer of inclusive society built upon principles and values, a shared vision, and shared goals that place people at the centre of human endeavour.© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Partnerships for the Goals. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71067-9_111-1.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed
Youth–adult partnership: exploring contributions to empowerment, agency and community connections in Malaysian youth programs
Youth–adult partnership (Y–AP) has emerged as a key practice for enacting two features of effective developmental settings: supportive adult relationships and support for efficacy and mattering. Previous studies have shown that when youth, supported by adults, actively participate in organizational and community decision-making they are likely to show greater confidence and agency, empowerment and critical consciousness, and community connections. Most of the extant research on Y–AP is limited to qualitative studies and the identification of organizational best practices. Almost all research focuses on Western sociocultural settings. To address these gaps, 299 youth, age 15 to 24, were sampled from established afterschool and community programs in Malaysia to explore the contribution of Y–AP (operationalized as having two components: youth voice in decision-making and supportive adult relationships) to empowerment, agency and community connections. As hypothesized, hierarchical regressions indicated that program quality (Y–AP, safe environment and program engagement) contributed to agency, empowerment and community connections beyond the contribution of family, school and religion. Additionally, the Y–AP measures contributed substantially more variance than the other measures of program quality on each outcome. Interaction effects indicated differences by age for empowerment and agency but not for community connections. The primary findings in this inquiry replicate those found in previous interview and observational-oriented studies. The data suggests fertile ground for future research while demonstrating that Y–AP may be an effective practice for positive youth development outside of Western settings
Addressing issues of vaccination literacy and psychological empowerment in the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination decision-making: a qualitative study
Validation of the Abbreviated Socio-Political Control Scale for Youth (SPCS-Y) Among Urban Girls of Color
The Cognitive Empowerment Scale: Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis Among Youth of Color
Introducing the Stroke Editor Training Program for Underrepresented in Medicine Scholars
Re-localizing ‘legal’ food: a social psychology perspective on community resilience, individual empowerment and citizen adaptations in food consumption in Southern Italy
This paper investigates how Food Security (FS)
is enacted in a southern region of Italy, characterized by high
rates of mafias-related activity, arguing for the inclusion in
the research of socio-cultural features and power relationships
to explain how Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) can
facilitate individual empowerment and community resilience.
In fact, while FS entails legality and social justice,
AFNs are intended as ‘instrumental value’ to reach the
‘terminal value’ of FS within an urban community in Sicily,
as well as the space where citizens can act their individual
and collective political food choices. Building on the social
psychology literature and on ecologic-psychopolitical
models (Christens and Perkins in J Commun Psychol
36(2):214–231, 2008), we discuss the case of Addiopizzo, a
citizen project promoting the legality of their AFNs through
the rejection of the payment of the pizzo (the protection
money asked by racket) in the local food chain. The aim is to
problematize the extent to which FS is able to re-localize
‘legal’ food in the market. This was done by reconnecting
citizens to their space and territory in a socio-cultural context
at risk where agro-food producers, retailers and consumers
are not free to fully enact their citizenship agency because of
a widespread illegal structure. The research findings show
that Addiopizzo project enables citizens to act their social
power: agro-food producers and retailers by subscribing to
formal requirements based on values that reject racket; consumers by purchasing Addiopizzo labelled products;
individuals and groups by participating further open-to-thepublic
activities that promote everyday politically oriented
behaviour. The citizen empowerment and community resilience
can be exerted within AFNs as they are interconnected
paths of reflexivity and social learning within social adaptation.
The paper concludes by advocating the role of urban
communities as a pivotal agent to maintain positive social
adaptations, where AFNs work as a socio-cultural synthesis
of traditional and alternative producer–consumer ways of
interaction, which are embodied in the FS value