The document discusses a national citizen service program in Devon led by Young Devon. The program will provide places for 900 young people in 2011 to help with their transition to adulthood and encourage involvement in their local communities. Participants will engage in a two-week residential program and develop social action projects in their neighborhoods. The program aims to be flexible around school schedules to accommodate seasonal work.
The case study is part of the Cultural Commisioning project at NCVO.
The case study was by Telford and Wrekin Music Education Hub and explores what they have learnt from commission priorities.
Find out more about the Cultural Commissioning project: http://www.ncvo.org.uk/practical-support/public-services/cultural-commissioning-programme
Children young people and the arts_Arts Council England South WestMartin Thomas
The document summarizes the Arts Council England, South West's strategies and priorities for supporting arts and creativity for children and young people in the region. The key priorities are developing relationships with local authorities, strengthening the infrastructure of regularly funded arts organizations, and ensuring opportunities are accessible to all young people in the region. The Arts Council aims to maximize engagement with the arts through partnerships with schools, cultural organizations, and local governments.
This document is a report summarizing the results of a youth needs survey conducted in South Central Manchester. It was a collaboration between the Rusholme and Fallowfield Community Forum, Trinity House Community Resource Centre, and Trinity House Youth Forum. The report provides analysis of questionnaire data collected from youth aged 11-19 on topics like education, activities, concerns, and substance use. It includes 10 recommendations based on the findings, such as providing more accessible counseling and careers guidance, addressing lower educational aspirations among certain groups, and ensuring youth services are culturally sensitive and address gender-specific needs.
Digital Youth Work - (Binod, Chhabi, Kaye, Nnaeto)Early Artis
This document discusses digital youth work in Finland. It provides definitions of youth work and how digital technologies have been incorporated. Digital youth work engages young people using contemporary ideals and the digital environment. It requires practitioners to understand technology and support young people's online development. The document outlines the goals of digital youth work, how it has been implemented in Finland and worldwide, and guidelines for practice. It also describes the organization Verke, the national development center for digital youth work in Finland. Verke aims to promote youth welfare, inclusion and equality through digital training, resources and innovations. Ethical considerations for digital youth work include treating young people with respect while ensuring safety and welfare.
Youth Social Work From A Female Perspective - (Maarit, Hanna, Tilja, Anastasiia)Early Artis
The document discusses gender-sensitive youth work in Finland, specifically focusing on two organizations - Tyttöjen Talo (Girls' House) and Nicehearts. Both organizations aim to empower young girls and promote their well-being through gender-sensitive activities in a safe, female-only space. They offer activities that discuss topics like gender stereotypes, identity development, and for Tyttöjen Talo, sexual violence counseling. The organizations strive to involve the girls in planning and aim to strengthen their identities. However, some criticism notes the spaces could better promote diversity and challenge traditional gender norms.
The lack of funding for the arts in community Apersaud824
The document discusses the lack of funding for arts programs in the community. It presents perspectives from several arts organizations in Toronto that have faced funding cuts. The organizations provide services for children, youth, and vulnerable community members. However, with less funding from the city and other levels of government, they struggle to maintain their programs and services. The document calls for more support of arts and culture funding to continue benefiting the community in many ways.
The document discusses the issue of lack of funding for arts programs in the community. It presents information on who is affected by the issue, including children, youth, parents and various art programs. It discusses advocacy groups working to increase funding like the Beautifulcity.ca Alliance. The document also examines the core issues hindering art funding, such as lack of finance and access, and proposes solutions like collaboration and communication. Overall, the presentation aims to raise awareness of how cuts to art program funding negatively impact communities.
The document discusses a national citizen service program in Devon led by Young Devon. The program will provide places for 900 young people in 2011 to help with their transition to adulthood and encourage involvement in their local communities. Participants will engage in a two-week residential program and develop social action projects in their neighborhoods. The program aims to be flexible around school schedules to accommodate seasonal work.
The case study is part of the Cultural Commisioning project at NCVO.
The case study was by Telford and Wrekin Music Education Hub and explores what they have learnt from commission priorities.
Find out more about the Cultural Commissioning project: http://www.ncvo.org.uk/practical-support/public-services/cultural-commissioning-programme
Children young people and the arts_Arts Council England South WestMartin Thomas
The document summarizes the Arts Council England, South West's strategies and priorities for supporting arts and creativity for children and young people in the region. The key priorities are developing relationships with local authorities, strengthening the infrastructure of regularly funded arts organizations, and ensuring opportunities are accessible to all young people in the region. The Arts Council aims to maximize engagement with the arts through partnerships with schools, cultural organizations, and local governments.
This document is a report summarizing the results of a youth needs survey conducted in South Central Manchester. It was a collaboration between the Rusholme and Fallowfield Community Forum, Trinity House Community Resource Centre, and Trinity House Youth Forum. The report provides analysis of questionnaire data collected from youth aged 11-19 on topics like education, activities, concerns, and substance use. It includes 10 recommendations based on the findings, such as providing more accessible counseling and careers guidance, addressing lower educational aspirations among certain groups, and ensuring youth services are culturally sensitive and address gender-specific needs.
Digital Youth Work - (Binod, Chhabi, Kaye, Nnaeto)Early Artis
This document discusses digital youth work in Finland. It provides definitions of youth work and how digital technologies have been incorporated. Digital youth work engages young people using contemporary ideals and the digital environment. It requires practitioners to understand technology and support young people's online development. The document outlines the goals of digital youth work, how it has been implemented in Finland and worldwide, and guidelines for practice. It also describes the organization Verke, the national development center for digital youth work in Finland. Verke aims to promote youth welfare, inclusion and equality through digital training, resources and innovations. Ethical considerations for digital youth work include treating young people with respect while ensuring safety and welfare.
Youth Social Work From A Female Perspective - (Maarit, Hanna, Tilja, Anastasiia)Early Artis
The document discusses gender-sensitive youth work in Finland, specifically focusing on two organizations - Tyttöjen Talo (Girls' House) and Nicehearts. Both organizations aim to empower young girls and promote their well-being through gender-sensitive activities in a safe, female-only space. They offer activities that discuss topics like gender stereotypes, identity development, and for Tyttöjen Talo, sexual violence counseling. The organizations strive to involve the girls in planning and aim to strengthen their identities. However, some criticism notes the spaces could better promote diversity and challenge traditional gender norms.
The lack of funding for the arts in community Apersaud824
The document discusses the lack of funding for arts programs in the community. It presents perspectives from several arts organizations in Toronto that have faced funding cuts. The organizations provide services for children, youth, and vulnerable community members. However, with less funding from the city and other levels of government, they struggle to maintain their programs and services. The document calls for more support of arts and culture funding to continue benefiting the community in many ways.
The document discusses the issue of lack of funding for arts programs in the community. It presents information on who is affected by the issue, including children, youth, parents and various art programs. It discusses advocacy groups working to increase funding like the Beautifulcity.ca Alliance. The document also examines the core issues hindering art funding, such as lack of finance and access, and proposes solutions like collaboration and communication. Overall, the presentation aims to raise awareness of how cuts to art program funding negatively impact communities.
How to empower youth to become engaged & make an impact on policy?Karl Donert
This presentation introduces the YouthMetre Project. A youth-based project funded as a forward-looking project to engage young people in policy making.
YouthMetre is an exciting project that empowers young people to connect with policy makers in order to improve the youth policies in local authorities, regions and countries in Europe.
YouthMetre creates an innovative tool that will give young people access, via a digital data dashboard, to information about how well their policymakers are performing in different youth fields. Examples of best practices are presented in order to help authorities improve their activities.
Beyond “Grey in Sepia”: Empowering the everyday life information literacy of ...CILIP
The document discusses a study on the information literacy practices of Syrian refugees resettled in Scotland. It provides details on focus groups conducted with 38 Syrian refugees to understand their information needs, sources, and barriers. Key findings included English language skills as critical for integration, health information challenges due to cultural and communication differences, the importance of community and digital connections for sharing information, and concerns around family reunification and long-term citizenship.
This job posting is for a librarian to support the Johnson County Library's (JCL) citizen engagement initiative by developing programs and resources on engagement topics. The librarian will work closely with the Information and Readers' Services Manager to integrate engagement into the library's work. Qualifications include an MLS and experience with public services, technology, and community outreach. The library began forums in 2001 using a model to discuss policy issues and find common ground, and hopes to take on local issues, develop online components, and form new partnerships to further community engagement.
"Get the Most for Your Money" Presentation NYLA 2013Monica Kuryla
This document provides suggestions for libraries to offer cost-effective programming and reference services with little to no budget. It recommends utilizing volunteers, partnering with local organizations, and reallocating materials budgets. Specific free programming ideas include games, crafts, career workshops, and musical performances. Ways to enhance reference on a budget include creating a virtual research room of free online resources and offering virtual instruction. Promoting these services on social media is also suggested.
Youth Bank Armenia is a program that empowers youth to become active citizens and leaders in their communities. It does this by [1] training youth to review small grant proposals from their peers, [2] funding the best youth-
This document discusses community partnerships for public libraries. It provides examples of partnerships from the Haywood County Public Library, Conneaut Public Library, and Beaver Public Library. The document outlines best practices for building partnerships, including starting by identifying why the library wants to partner, researching potential partners, and focusing on building relationships. It also notes challenges small and rural libraries may face and provides tips on knowing when to end a partnership. The overall message is that community partnerships are important for libraries to better serve their communities and meet community needs.
The document provides updates on various youth participation activities in Midlothian from July 2011. It summarizes meetings and events of the Midlothian Youth Platform (MYP), local youth forums in Dalkeith, Newbattle, Penicuik and Lasswade, and specific interest groups like the Kids in Care Krew. It also provides information on secondary school representation on MYP and the work of Midlothian's Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament. The bulletin aims to inform young people of participation opportunities in their communities.
SOCIAL WORK WITH ELDERLY PEOPLE - HERTTONIEMI - (Gloria, Miro, Delia, Jarkko,...Early Artis
The document discusses social work with the elderly in Finland. It provides information on legislation, the public and private sectors roles, and challenges social workers may face. It also highlights the multi-disciplinary team approach and importance of advocating for elderly clients. Social workers strive to empower the elderly and reduce loneliness through community involvement. However, issues like health declines, financial stresses, and refusing care present dilemmas social workers must carefully address. The needs of an aging population are expected to grow, but social workers remain dedicated to improving quality of life for the elderly.
Fundraising Drive for Youth Empowerment Network Summer Camp 2011Michelle Bobala
The document summarizes Red Thread's Youth Empowerment Network and Literacy Program in Guyana, which aims to empower vulnerable youth through literacy classes, workshops, and summer camps. The Literacy Program has operated since 2001 and provides classes in reading, writing, numeracy, and computers. The Youth Network, established in 2010, holds biweekly seminars and a summer camp focusing on skills like conflict resolution and critical thinking. The document requests donations to fund supplies for the literacy classes and the 2011 summer camp, which will focus on community engagement and mobilizing youth for social change.
The document discusses the plans for a new Ferndale Library in Ferndale, Washington. As of April 2010, $2.837 million had been raised from gifts, grants, pledges, Whatcom County Library System, and the City of Ferndale to fund the construction of a new library. The new library aims to serve as an information and education center that combines traditional library services with modern technology resources. It seeks to function as a community gathering space where people can read, learn, work, meet and grow.
THE ROLE OF A CITIZEN IN FINLAND - (Early, Maarit, Sonu, Fabrizio, Delia, Tar...Early Artis
The document discusses citizenship and marginalized citizens in Finland. It defines a citizen as someone who is legally recognized as a member of a state and has both rights and responsibilities. Rights include voting, residing in Finland, and obtaining a passport, while responsibilities include military service and obeying Finnish laws. The document also examines ways to improve opportunities for marginalized citizens, such as increasing educational attainment, employment programs, and ensuring access to welfare services regardless of attributes. Case studies provide examples of how policies aim to acknowledge and intervene in issues like youth unemployment through implementation of training programs.
This document discusses a research project on citizen participation in a decision about replacing the community center/library in the Town of Parma and Village of Hilton, New York. The research found support among residents for pursuing a project to replace the existing structures, with preference for combining the library and community center into one new building. The researcher made recommendations to the town, including identifying specific locations for consideration, providing cost and tax information, and conducting another survey to help focus on preferred sites.
The document discusses plans to rethink and reorganize the Springfield City Library. It summarizes the project goals of ensuring sustainable library funding, increasing community engagement, expanding the library's impact, and building a brighter future for Springfield. It outlines research conducted on Springfield's neighborhoods and libraries. Based on this, the library will realign its structure around five program teams focused on adult literacy, after school programs, community engagement, early literacy, and workforce development, as well as a customer experience team. The document recommends increasing library hours and funding to better meet community needs and partner with the city.
The document discusses plans to rethink and improve the Springfield City Library. It conducted research that found the library receives limited funding and staffing that has decreased, and many neighborhoods have unmet needs. It recommends reorganizing library teams around goals like education, workforce development, and civic engagement. It also proposes a scenario to increase hours at neighborhood locations through increased funding commitments from the city and external funders. The library will implement changes and seek ongoing community input to work towards "A Brighter Future for Springfield Today."
This document summarizes the agenda and process for updating the community comprehensive plan for Lyons, Colorado. It provides an overview of public input received through workshops, surveys, and feedback from youth. It then outlines proposed guiding principles, transportation priorities, future land uses, and economic development strategies to be included in the plan. Key areas of focus include downtown revitalization, expanding tourism, improving multi-modal transportation options, and capitalizing on local assets and partnerships.
Sustaining our common values: the pressures at play and to comeCILIP
This document summarizes a presentation on sustaining common values in librarianship that are under challenge. It discusses two core values - a belief in a universal public library service open to all, and respect for patron privacy. These values are challenged by new voices calling for libraries to transform and prioritize community needs over equity, as well as libraries' own use of technologies like filtering and analytics. The presentation calls for more debate within the profession on these issues to strengthen its mission and values.
The Exeter Cultural Partnership represents the city’s cultural organisations including libraries, museums, sport, arts, health, education, food and retail - organisations which touch the lives of thousands of people each year. ECP now has over 150 members across the city and sub region.
Our mission as a partnership is to contribute to a city where a vibrant cultural life enriches the experience of everyone living in, working in and visiting Exeter.
For the past nine months ECP has been working towards the creation of a Cultural Action Plan for Exeter. With the support of Exeter City Council and the Arts Council of England, ECP has undertaken in depth consultation with the city’s cultural sector producing key findings that have informed this Action Plan.
Importantly this Action Plan is one that is ‘co-owned’ with the City Council, ensuring that culture is embedded in the plans that will shape the city of the future. Named as one of the top five priorities in the City Council’s five year strategic plan, culture is seen as a key contributor to future prosperity and growth in Exeter.
Norfolk's Response to the Cultural Education ChallengeMichael Corley
This document introduces the Cultural Education Challenge in Norfolk and outlines next steps to shape the county's response. It discusses building cross-sector relationships to understand needs, current partnerships, and the importance of cultural education. Key findings from research on participation in arts and culture show benefits to wellbeing, volunteering, and community trust. The document proposes discussing youth voice, access for all, identifying priorities, and starting to map existing cultural education opportunities and partners in Norfolk. The purpose is to make the most of collaboration to enhance children and young people's cultural lives.
How to empower youth to become engaged & make an impact on policy?Karl Donert
This presentation introduces the YouthMetre Project. A youth-based project funded as a forward-looking project to engage young people in policy making.
YouthMetre is an exciting project that empowers young people to connect with policy makers in order to improve the youth policies in local authorities, regions and countries in Europe.
YouthMetre creates an innovative tool that will give young people access, via a digital data dashboard, to information about how well their policymakers are performing in different youth fields. Examples of best practices are presented in order to help authorities improve their activities.
Beyond “Grey in Sepia”: Empowering the everyday life information literacy of ...CILIP
The document discusses a study on the information literacy practices of Syrian refugees resettled in Scotland. It provides details on focus groups conducted with 38 Syrian refugees to understand their information needs, sources, and barriers. Key findings included English language skills as critical for integration, health information challenges due to cultural and communication differences, the importance of community and digital connections for sharing information, and concerns around family reunification and long-term citizenship.
This job posting is for a librarian to support the Johnson County Library's (JCL) citizen engagement initiative by developing programs and resources on engagement topics. The librarian will work closely with the Information and Readers' Services Manager to integrate engagement into the library's work. Qualifications include an MLS and experience with public services, technology, and community outreach. The library began forums in 2001 using a model to discuss policy issues and find common ground, and hopes to take on local issues, develop online components, and form new partnerships to further community engagement.
"Get the Most for Your Money" Presentation NYLA 2013Monica Kuryla
This document provides suggestions for libraries to offer cost-effective programming and reference services with little to no budget. It recommends utilizing volunteers, partnering with local organizations, and reallocating materials budgets. Specific free programming ideas include games, crafts, career workshops, and musical performances. Ways to enhance reference on a budget include creating a virtual research room of free online resources and offering virtual instruction. Promoting these services on social media is also suggested.
Youth Bank Armenia is a program that empowers youth to become active citizens and leaders in their communities. It does this by [1] training youth to review small grant proposals from their peers, [2] funding the best youth-
This document discusses community partnerships for public libraries. It provides examples of partnerships from the Haywood County Public Library, Conneaut Public Library, and Beaver Public Library. The document outlines best practices for building partnerships, including starting by identifying why the library wants to partner, researching potential partners, and focusing on building relationships. It also notes challenges small and rural libraries may face and provides tips on knowing when to end a partnership. The overall message is that community partnerships are important for libraries to better serve their communities and meet community needs.
The document provides updates on various youth participation activities in Midlothian from July 2011. It summarizes meetings and events of the Midlothian Youth Platform (MYP), local youth forums in Dalkeith, Newbattle, Penicuik and Lasswade, and specific interest groups like the Kids in Care Krew. It also provides information on secondary school representation on MYP and the work of Midlothian's Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament. The bulletin aims to inform young people of participation opportunities in their communities.
SOCIAL WORK WITH ELDERLY PEOPLE - HERTTONIEMI - (Gloria, Miro, Delia, Jarkko,...Early Artis
The document discusses social work with the elderly in Finland. It provides information on legislation, the public and private sectors roles, and challenges social workers may face. It also highlights the multi-disciplinary team approach and importance of advocating for elderly clients. Social workers strive to empower the elderly and reduce loneliness through community involvement. However, issues like health declines, financial stresses, and refusing care present dilemmas social workers must carefully address. The needs of an aging population are expected to grow, but social workers remain dedicated to improving quality of life for the elderly.
Fundraising Drive for Youth Empowerment Network Summer Camp 2011Michelle Bobala
The document summarizes Red Thread's Youth Empowerment Network and Literacy Program in Guyana, which aims to empower vulnerable youth through literacy classes, workshops, and summer camps. The Literacy Program has operated since 2001 and provides classes in reading, writing, numeracy, and computers. The Youth Network, established in 2010, holds biweekly seminars and a summer camp focusing on skills like conflict resolution and critical thinking. The document requests donations to fund supplies for the literacy classes and the 2011 summer camp, which will focus on community engagement and mobilizing youth for social change.
The document discusses the plans for a new Ferndale Library in Ferndale, Washington. As of April 2010, $2.837 million had been raised from gifts, grants, pledges, Whatcom County Library System, and the City of Ferndale to fund the construction of a new library. The new library aims to serve as an information and education center that combines traditional library services with modern technology resources. It seeks to function as a community gathering space where people can read, learn, work, meet and grow.
THE ROLE OF A CITIZEN IN FINLAND - (Early, Maarit, Sonu, Fabrizio, Delia, Tar...Early Artis
The document discusses citizenship and marginalized citizens in Finland. It defines a citizen as someone who is legally recognized as a member of a state and has both rights and responsibilities. Rights include voting, residing in Finland, and obtaining a passport, while responsibilities include military service and obeying Finnish laws. The document also examines ways to improve opportunities for marginalized citizens, such as increasing educational attainment, employment programs, and ensuring access to welfare services regardless of attributes. Case studies provide examples of how policies aim to acknowledge and intervene in issues like youth unemployment through implementation of training programs.
This document discusses a research project on citizen participation in a decision about replacing the community center/library in the Town of Parma and Village of Hilton, New York. The research found support among residents for pursuing a project to replace the existing structures, with preference for combining the library and community center into one new building. The researcher made recommendations to the town, including identifying specific locations for consideration, providing cost and tax information, and conducting another survey to help focus on preferred sites.
The document discusses plans to rethink and reorganize the Springfield City Library. It summarizes the project goals of ensuring sustainable library funding, increasing community engagement, expanding the library's impact, and building a brighter future for Springfield. It outlines research conducted on Springfield's neighborhoods and libraries. Based on this, the library will realign its structure around five program teams focused on adult literacy, after school programs, community engagement, early literacy, and workforce development, as well as a customer experience team. The document recommends increasing library hours and funding to better meet community needs and partner with the city.
The document discusses plans to rethink and improve the Springfield City Library. It conducted research that found the library receives limited funding and staffing that has decreased, and many neighborhoods have unmet needs. It recommends reorganizing library teams around goals like education, workforce development, and civic engagement. It also proposes a scenario to increase hours at neighborhood locations through increased funding commitments from the city and external funders. The library will implement changes and seek ongoing community input to work towards "A Brighter Future for Springfield Today."
This document summarizes the agenda and process for updating the community comprehensive plan for Lyons, Colorado. It provides an overview of public input received through workshops, surveys, and feedback from youth. It then outlines proposed guiding principles, transportation priorities, future land uses, and economic development strategies to be included in the plan. Key areas of focus include downtown revitalization, expanding tourism, improving multi-modal transportation options, and capitalizing on local assets and partnerships.
Sustaining our common values: the pressures at play and to comeCILIP
This document summarizes a presentation on sustaining common values in librarianship that are under challenge. It discusses two core values - a belief in a universal public library service open to all, and respect for patron privacy. These values are challenged by new voices calling for libraries to transform and prioritize community needs over equity, as well as libraries' own use of technologies like filtering and analytics. The presentation calls for more debate within the profession on these issues to strengthen its mission and values.
The Exeter Cultural Partnership represents the city’s cultural organisations including libraries, museums, sport, arts, health, education, food and retail - organisations which touch the lives of thousands of people each year. ECP now has over 150 members across the city and sub region.
Our mission as a partnership is to contribute to a city where a vibrant cultural life enriches the experience of everyone living in, working in and visiting Exeter.
For the past nine months ECP has been working towards the creation of a Cultural Action Plan for Exeter. With the support of Exeter City Council and the Arts Council of England, ECP has undertaken in depth consultation with the city’s cultural sector producing key findings that have informed this Action Plan.
Importantly this Action Plan is one that is ‘co-owned’ with the City Council, ensuring that culture is embedded in the plans that will shape the city of the future. Named as one of the top five priorities in the City Council’s five year strategic plan, culture is seen as a key contributor to future prosperity and growth in Exeter.
Norfolk's Response to the Cultural Education ChallengeMichael Corley
This document introduces the Cultural Education Challenge in Norfolk and outlines next steps to shape the county's response. It discusses building cross-sector relationships to understand needs, current partnerships, and the importance of cultural education. Key findings from research on participation in arts and culture show benefits to wellbeing, volunteering, and community trust. The document proposes discussing youth voice, access for all, identifying priorities, and starting to map existing cultural education opportunities and partners in Norfolk. The purpose is to make the most of collaboration to enhance children and young people's cultural lives.
CREATIVE CITIZENSHIP BUILDING CONNECTION, KNOWLEDGE, BELONG.docxwillcoxjanay
CREATIVE CITIZENSHIP: BUILDING CONNECTION, KNOWLEDGE,
BELONGING AND LEADERSHIP IN YOUNG PEOPLE
Lisa Burnett Regional Manager Transit Lounge Caboolture Qld and Anne Spelman Client Services
Coordinator Moreton Bay Region Libraries Qld
For the last three years Moreton Bay Region Libraries has hosted Transit Lounge Caboolture (TLC), a developmental
program for creative young people. Although not an obvious pairing, it has been successful, with the hosting arrangement on
the verge of transforming into a true partnership. Between them, they offer a suite of services and programs that support the
developmental needs of creative young people from pathfinders through to aspiring artists, emerging artists and professional
artists. Programs such as Mash It Up short film festival and Band Camp, services like the enewsletter and project mentoring
provide opportunities for skills development, networking, showcasing and resourcing that would not otherwise exist. Through
this unique partnership, a continuum of support has been offered that connects young people to each other, to community
resources and to professional artists and artsworkers – connection, knowledge, belonging – developing a generation of
young citizens who have a stake in their community and the skills and networks to create and lead arts and cultural activity.
Edited version of a paper presented at ‘12 to 24s @ your public library in Australia and New Zealand conference’ Qld 11-
12 June 2010.
hen we sat down to develop this paper
there was one word that dominated our
conversation – why?
• why does Transit Lounge Caboolture exist?
• why is Moreton Bay Region Libraries doing
community development work?
• why are we partnering?
• why are we interested in working with young
people?
• why arts and culture?
• why do we think other people should be doing
this?
We articulated our personal motivations, which
ultimately lead back to some clear and compelling
reasons.
Declining optimism
In the 10 years between 1995 and 2005 there was a
significant decline in young people’s optimism
regarding their preferred futures
• 49% of young people think the future quality
of life in Australia will be worse (up 25%)
• 65% think the world is headed for a bad time
of crisis and trouble (up 49%)
• although 89% would prefer a ‘green’ future
only 23% expect that is what they will see
• although only 11% prefer a ‘growth’ focused
future, 77% expect that is what will prevail.1
If you are faced with a widening gulf between your
expected and preferred futures, what does that do
to your sense of hope – especially if you do not
feel that you have any control over that situation?
Reduced feelings of wellbeing
A survey2 of more than 10,000 Australian students
from prep school to year 12 found that
• 40% of students could be described as
displaying lower levels of social and emotional
wellbeing
• there was, at most, only a weak positive
relationship.
Draft strategy for 2020- 30: Public engagement report summaryArts Council England
The document summarizes public engagement workshops and interviews conducted to inform Arts Council England's draft strategy for 2020-2030. Key findings include:
1. Most participants saw creativity and culture as important to well-being but faced barriers to engagement like lack of time and money.
2. When prioritizing outcomes, most supported "creative people" to enable individual creativity. Ideas focused on children and youth were popular.
3. Participants valued accessible, local opportunities for everyday creativity over high-culture events and wanted Arts Council to better promote local offerings.
B4 Settlement And Public Libraries: Initiatives and Potential_Laura Hellerocasiconference
This document provides an overview of the Library Settlement Partnership (LSP) program in Ontario. LSP is a partnership between settlement service organizations and public libraries that places settlement workers in library branches. The goals are to expand access to settlement services and improve coordination between sectors. The presentation reviews research on immigrant information needs, the role of libraries in supporting newcomers, and details of the LSP pilot program in multiple cities. It encourages settlement workers to connect with LSP and consider new ways to partner with local libraries.
Presentation at the First International Conference of University Community Engagement "Redefining Community Engagement" November 25-28 2014, M-Regency Hotel, Makassar, Indonesia
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This document summarizes a project involving Culture and Wellbeing in York that used arts and culture to promote wellbeing. It involved several arts organizations and a university center. With help from consultants, they developed an understanding of commissioning, built commissioner relationships, and devised a way to communicate how arts can contribute to wellbeing. This resulted in identifying six ways that culture can promote wellbeing. The project found that arts helped increase independence, communication skills, and saved someone's life. It is now developing additional programs involving drama, arts access, singing, and sensory environments. The work faces challenges around budgets, complex health landscapes, and being seen as difficult to understand, but has advantages of collaboration and health/wellbeing priorities.
An Identity-Centred Approach to Closing the Educational GapMATSITI
This document outlines an educational proposal taking an identity-centered approach. It discusses the importance of recognizing identity as fundamental to educational success. It describes several case studies that highlight the benefits of embracing Aboriginal identity and culture in schools, including improved engagement, attendance, and academic performance. These examples show that integrating mainstream and Indigenous learning areas can better support Aboriginal students' identity and educational outcomes. The proposal argues for sustaining identity-based practices and ensuring Aboriginal representation and leadership in schools.
The document discusses the importance of public libraries measuring and communicating their impact and value to stakeholders. It provides examples of studies that have measured the economic impact of libraries in Ontario. It also outlines key learnings and deliverables from the Public Library Success Project, including developing standardized metrics, communications strategies, and influencing skills to advocate for more provincial funding. The overall goal is to work towards a shared vision where the value of public libraries is well understood and supported by the Ontario government.
1) This project brings together the Gypsy Roma and Traveller communities of Kensington and Chelsea to create a living archive through various media like film, audio, exhibitions and books.
2) It involves residential programs to teach media literacy skills and will result in 3 films, 5 audio documentaries, an exhibition and 100 books documenting the community's history.
3) The goals are to strengthen community participation, improve understanding between Travellers and others in the area, and celebrate Traveller culture through an event program during Gypsy Roma and Traveller History Month.
Melanie West, Audience Development Manager at North Ayrshire on offering young people the opportunity to comment in and shape services available to them
INF2143H: Issues in Children & Youth Librarianship, Partnership ProposalDarrell A. Joyce, MI
PLEASE NOTE: This presentation was part of a project for INF2143H at the University of Toronto iSchool. The assignment was to propose a partnership on behalf of a library. Our group chose to propose a partnership between the Flemingdon Public Library (part of the Toronto Public Library system) and the Ontario Science Centre. We are not affiliated with either of these organizations, and the proposal is fictitious but based on real information.
AND Isitallaboutwhoyouknow - future directions reportpesec
This document summarizes a discussion session on developing careers for young people in the creative industries in London. Key points from the discussion included: there is a perception the arts sector is predominantly middle-class; passion and commitment are important but some young people lack exposure; unpaid internships are common but standards need improving; and higher education is often a default rather than assessing skills. Participants agreed on developing early arts exposure, relevant opportunities, entrepreneurship, transparent recruitment, and sharing best practices.
A presentation by Jo Smet, for the IRC seminar, The human factor in WASH change processes: drivers for change among staff of WASH sector organisations. 18 June 2015, 15:00-18:30, Humanity House, Prinsegracht 8, The Hague, the Netherlands.
Read more about this seminar: http://www.ircwash.org/news/drivers-change-human-factor
Presented by Lucie Stephens at the event 'Commissioning for Culture and Sport, 5th December 2014':
http://knowhownonprofit.org/events/commissioning-for-culture-and-sport-5th-december-2014
Part of the Cultural Commissioning Programme
http://www.ncvo.org.uk/cultural-commissioning-programme
Presented by Jessica Harris from NCVO at the event 'Commissioning for Culture and Sport, 5th December 2014':
http://knowhownonprofit.org/events/commissioning-for-culture-and-sport-5th-december-2014
Part of the Cultural Commissioning Programme
http://www.ncvo.org.uk/cultural-commissioning-programme
Scaling up to meet the cultural education challengeEduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Derri Burdon at the international conference “Fostering creativity in children and young people through education and culture” in Durham, United Kingdom on 4-5 September 2017.
Presenter: Lucie Stephens, Head of Co-Production, NEF
Event: How arts and cultural activities are supporting co-production and innovation in public services, London, 19 May 2015, part of our Making Connections events series.
Between May 2015 and March 2016, we are running a series of regional events to bring together commissioners, arts and cultural providers, and others interested in increasing levels of cultural commissioning.
The Cultural Commissioning Programme works to help the arts and cultural sector engage in public sector commissioning and to enable public service commissioners to increase their awareness of the potential for arts and cultural organisations to deliver their outcomes. This three year programme, funded by Arts Council England, is being delivered through a partnership between NCVO (lead partner) , NEF and NPC .
www.ncvo.org/CCProg
How arts and cultural activities are supporting co-production and innovation ...
Bridge Presentation
1. State of Our Region
Bridge Intelligence Gathering
March 2012
2. Workshop structure (EF)
1.Introductions and purpose of today
3.The intelligence gathering process – what we have done to date
5.What we have found out so far
7.Workshop – discussion sessions around five key questions
9.Presentations
11.Summary and next steps
3. Introduction and purpose of today (EF)
Introductions
Karen Birch, TMC
Daniel Poole, TMC
Elly Fletcher, Focus Consultants
Lucy Pike, Focus Consultants
Purpose of today
- To share the findings of the Intelligence Gathering research to date
- To provide the space and opportunity for discussion and debate around some of the key
emerging questions from the research so far
- To reach some conclusions today about possible partnerships and opportunities for the
future.
4. Bridge Intelligence: Introduction (KB)
• 10 bridge organisations undertaking an annual data and intelligence
gathering exercise
• Arts Council England’s Cultural Education Profile Tool
• Regional State of the Region Reports
• A partnership between TMC, Focus Consultants and Dubit Limited
• A baseline, snapshot and routine intelligence gathering.
5. The intelligence gathering process – what we have done so far
(EF)
The very first step in an ongoing audit and review of the cultural sector in the region and its offer
and engagement with children and young people.
Looking at four crucial research questions:
Research question 1 - Who are the region’s children and young people and what challenges do they
face?
Research question 2 - What cultural opportunities are on offer for children and young people in the East
Midlands and where are the gaps?
Research question 3 - What are the main threats and opportunities for children and young people’s
services in the cultural sector?
Research question 4 – What support does the East Midlands cultural sector need to improve and
develop the offer to children and young people?
Why?
To look at gaps in provision / challenges for the sector / what support is required to enhance the offer
and ultimately to inform the development of the Bridge Programme of activities and support
6. The intelligence gathering process – what we have done so far
(EF)
Consultation, consultation, consultation – we have spoken with over 100 individuals and
organisations across the sector – NPOs, museums, libraries and arts organisations – as well as local
authorities
Listening – Young people’s lives and their experiences and opinions of arts and culture
Socio-economic analysis – Data analysis, looking at the key characteristics of the region and asking
ourselves, what are the key challenges faced by children and young people today in the East Midlands
Strategic context – Comprehensive review of the strategic context across each geographic area in the
region
The national funding environment – Exploration of current and potential funding opportunities across
the sector, including changes to the commissioning agenda for young people’s services
Data gathering – Lists, lists and more lists!
7. What we have found out so far (EF)
Who are the region’s children and young people
and what do they need?
Pockets of the East Midlands see children and young people facing significant
challenges of deprivation and unemployment and, in some rural areas, isolation
•By 2017, there will be over 1.38m children and young people in the region
•Nottingham and Leicester are the youngest cities
•Some urban areas of Nottingham, Leicester and Derby have some of the
highest rates of deprivation
•The former coalfields too experience some real disadvantage
•A strong need to tackle low educational attainment and youth
unemployment in these areas
•As the third most rural region, there is a need to reach out to isolated young
people in rural communities.
8. What we have found out so far (EF)
Who are the region’s children and young
people and what do they need?
Young people’s leadership is and will continue to be an essential
component to the success of the region’s cultural sector
•Over to Daniel from TMC
What young people have told us
•Over to Daniel from TMC
9. Bridge Intelligence: Young People Insights (KB)
• Series of case studies that document the reality of young people’s
cultural lives
• 10 young people age 14 – 25 living in the East Midlands
• Recruitment and sample
• Blogs, immersion days, videos and workshop
• Final case studies.
14. Akshay’s blog (KB)
how would you improve the arts and cultural activities in your area?
maybe make them more appealing? i think that maybe if i was involved with them earlier in life for longer i might enjoy them
now, but now that i am my age i don’t really have any desire to get involved.
anything you wish was offered in your area?
not really, like i said, i’m not too big on the whole arts and crafts thing
what would encourage or inspire young people to get involved?
if it was fun, a good mix of people (my friend group don’t get involved in any of it, and nor do i), something you could pop into
your personal statment for a bit of extra credit, i don’t see why people wouldn’t want to go!
what does art and culture mean to you?:
“Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t.”
Lord Raglan
15. Our State of the Arts (DP)
Art’s Fate, Our State, You Rate
Intro
•Launched end of Feb 2012
•10 YP across the East Midlands
•Employed at TMC as Cultural Researchers
•Get a snapshot of YP’s opinion of arts in the area
•3 areas of enquiry
Seeing
Asking
Researching
16. Cultural Bursary (DP)
• Each Cultural Researcher was given a Cultural bursary to complete a
programme of events
• Workshops, shows, concerts, talks etc
• Encouraged to see what they are passionate about and also things
they have never seen or done before
17. What are they saying? (DP)
• At the moment they are a very small group across the east
midlands
• Reviews of arts establishments and shows seen are generally
positive
• Finding that without a bursary attending some of the shows they
wanted would be hard
• Some discussion around how difficult some art forms are to access
in their area
• Many have commented knowledge amongst their peers on what's
on offer is low
18. Development Plans (DP)
• How do we make Our State of the Arts Bigger, Better and more useful for
YP and the sector?
Wider expansion of contributions
Empower the YP involved to take ownership of the space
Create an opportunity for a truly open space to discuss opinions on the arts in
their area
Make OSA a resource for the sector to view what young people think of what's
on offer, and what is missing where they live
A chance for like minded young people to share views and advertise their
events to a captive audience
Provide TMC and open resource for young people to tell us what they think,
without the pressure or commitment of more typical forums and meetings.
19. Last but not least……(DP)
Come see what people are saying;
www.ourstateofthearts.co.uk
@stateofourarts
20. What we have found out so far (EF)
What cultural opportunities are on offer for children and young
people in the East Midlands?
Although there is already a diverse offer across the region’s cultural sector for children and young people, there
are some significant gaps in provision
•A diverse offer
•Significant heritage and cultural assets
•Good examples across the sector of engagement with children and young people
•Some significant gaps and a need for:
More extra-curricular activities directly targeting children and young people from identified deprived
communities
Increased opportunities for kinaesthetic learning
Increased collaborative delivery of activities across museums, arts, libraries and schools
Increased outreach activity in communities and schools
Longer term programmes of delivery, which enable participants to develop relationships with providers and
have certainty and consistency about what is on offer.
21. What we have found out so far (EF)
What are the main threats and opportunities for
children and young people’s services in the
cultural sector?
Cuts to core funding are presenting real threats to the delivery of
children and young people’s services in the cultural sector
Changes to the way local authorities commission arts provision may
present opportunities for new organisations, those that have historically
not been core funded, to step up and present innovative new proposals
for funding
The move from maintained schools to academies is likely to dramatically
change the way externally delivered services to schools are
commissioned
Changes in national strategy and policy present new opportunities for
the East Midlands cultural sector and funding its offer to children and
young people.
22. What we have found out so far (EF)
What support does the sector need to improve and develop the offer
to children and young people?
Partnership working is key to the successful delivery of cultural opportunities to children and young people – the
cultural sector needs support to create effective partnerships
A clear need for support to organisations to:
•Identify potential partnerships and collaborative approaches
•Broker new relationships between education, industry and the voluntary sector, and improve cross sectoral partnership
working
•Improve connectivity between organisations with different skill sets with a view to reaching some of the region’s more hard
to reach groups and deprived communities
•Develop longer term strategic approaches to projects and programmes.
Development of innovative new projects and proposals and support with funding will be crucial to the
improvement of cultural services to children and young people – the cultural sector needs support and
information to achieve this.
23. Workshop – discussion sessions (EF)
Five key research questions
2) Partnerships - How can libraries, museums and arts organisations collaborate more effectively to deliver services for children
and young people? What can we learn from each other? How can we best capitalise on each others’ strengths? How might we use
each other to access some of the more hard to reach communities?
3) Pilot ‘hubs’ - The Henley Review proposes the creation of pilot ‘hubs’ using the music education hub structure as a model to
pilot others across different cultural forms. How could this work in practice in the East Midlands? What types of organisations
would work best as part of a collaborating group? What cultural forms in the East Midlands would best fit the hub model? What’s the
alternative?
4) Schools - Changes are happening rapidly across the education sector, where Government is encouraging schools – now both
Primary and Secondary - towards the academy model. What effect is this already having on the East Midlands in relation to
delivery of cultural experiences for children in schools? What threats or opportunities does this present for the future of cultural
education and cultural experiences for children and young people in schools? How might this change the way in which the cultural and
creative industries partner with schools, including commissioning of services? What opportunities could there be out there for strategic
commissioning of services?
5) Leadership - The State of our Region Review has highlighted some excellent examples of young people’s leadership within
cultural organisations across this region and nearly all organisations consulted to date has agreed that young people’s
leadership is important. What support programmes or initiatives could be put in place to encourage young people’s leadership
in cultural organisations in the region? What examples of best practice are out there and how can we learn from them?
6) Funding - The issue of funding cuts across the sector has consistently raised its head as a major barrier to delivery of children
and young people’s services in the cultural sector. As the funding environment changes, what opportunities are out there for
development of innovative new funding models for children and young people’s services? How can the cultural sector capitalise
on this chance to develop new partnerships and potentially access previously unreachable funding opportunities? How can the cultural
sector, the education sector, the voluntary sector collaborate to access a new mix of public and private funding in the future?
25. Summary and next steps (KB and EF)
This is just the starting point....
• Immediate research is about to happen to explore the key threats and opportunities for the
education sector
• Ongoing research will continue to update and develop the intelligence audit, and inform Bridge
Programme development.