Community Collaborations: How They Can Be Used to Help Alleviate Poverty
This training highlights the formation of, strategies employed, challenges faced, and lessons learned of how community collaborations, borne of hearts hungry to "do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God" (Micah 6:8), were formed to alleviate poverty at micro, mezzo and macro levels in a southwestern TN community. We will share how and why the community collaborations were started and maintained, the methods employed, challenges faced, and examples of current programs shared.
Category(ies):
Human Development, Diversity, and Behavior in the Environment
Direct Practice: Groups and Communities
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
Articulate 2-3 reasons why community collaborations are considered to be more effective for alleviating poverty
Identify 2-3 strategies used to form community collaborations
Describe 2-3 strategies for managing community collaborations
I. Community collaborations - What are they (5 Minutes)
II. Rationale for why community collaborations are considered more effective for helping to alleviate poverty? (10 minutes)
II. Strategies to form community collaborations (10 minutes)
III. Methods used and Examples of Programs (20 minutes)
A. Room in the Inn (RITI)
B. Fresh Start
C. Turning Point
D. HUB Club
E. MentorU (mentoring collaboration)
IV. Maintenance of and Challenges faced with community coalitions (15 minutes)
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Dr. Rhonda Hudson joined Union University in August, 2006, and currently serves as a Professor of Social Work and BSW Director in the School of Social Work. She teaches in the BSW and MSW programs in Jackson and in Germantown. She is a certified Quality Matters Peer Reviewer for online courses at Union University and at other universities, also.
Mary Anne Poe is currently the Associate Dean of the School of Social Work at Union University where she has taught since 1996. She is also the Director of the Center for Just and Caring Communities at Union. She received a bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University, MSSW from the University of Louisville and an MDiv from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. She is a licensed advanced practice social worker (LAPSW). She serves on the board of Area Relief Ministries in Jackson, TN, on the editorial board for the journal Social Work and Christianity. She is married and has two daughters