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Resilience, Community Assets and Asset Mapping

Nicolette Teufel-Shone, PhD Dine College. Resilience, Community Assets and Asset Mapping. Strength or Asset Based Thinking. Focus and identify what is going well Taking stock of what we already have in terms of resources, abilities, and commitment

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Resilience, Community Assets and Asset Mapping

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  1. Nicolette Teufel-Shone, PhD Dine College Resilience, Community Assets and Asset Mapping

  2. Strength or Asset Based Thinking • Focus and identify what is going well • Taking stock of what we already have in terms of resources, abilities, and commitment • Public Health tends to use deficit based statements • Example? • American Indians have the highest rate of diabetes in the US

  3. Asset based statements • American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) adolescent females were 30% more likely to receive an HPV vaccine in 2011, as compared to non-Hispanic whites • The 32 tribally controlled colleges experienced a greater increase in AI/AN student enrollment than all other colleges (Trujillo and Alston 2005) • A tribe-specific social service program documented a decrease in intimate partner violence over the last 5 years

  4. Asset based thinking • Does not ignore the challenges • Identifies successes • Documents processes and lessons to be learned from positive outcomes • Tests application of successful approaches to other challenges • Encourages us to thinking outside of the box

  5. Draw 9 DotsConnect using 4 lines

  6. Solution

  7. Words can be powerful • Health promotion • Protective factors • Heart disease • Opportunities • Learning from mistakes • Disease prevention • Risk factors • Heart health • Problems • Failure Change the way you see and talk about everything

  8. Measuring or Evaluating Resilience • Individual outcomes? • Academic achievement in a adverse/less than supportive environment • Individual process? Protective or contributing factors • Family/peer support • Cultural strength

  9. Measuring or Evaluating Resilience • Community outcomes? • Rate of college graduation in a community with low incomes and low numbers of high school and college • Community process - Protective or contributing factors • Supportive community activities (recognition) • Cultural connection activities

  10. Result • Asset/Strength based thinking • Builds on previous accomplishments • Using existing resources and skills • Recognizes resilience • Builds confidence • Deficit based thinking • Identifies barriers and limitations • Creates a mentality of hopelessness • Supports an environment of low morale and repressed motivation • Assets Success breeds confidence

  11. How do you document and track community assets?

  12. Asset Mapping • Provide information about strengths and resources of a community • Can help uncover untapped resources or connection between resources to build a solution • Relies on existing resources

  13. So what as you Mapping? • Physical resources (physical capital) • School • Clinic • Chapter house • Boys and Girls Club • Businesses • Social capital (connections) • Booster club for school sports • School club – health professions • Cultural capital (knowledge and practice)

  14. When do you use Asset Mapping? • Start a new local program • Need information on resources • Health promotion – safe exercise • Making program decisions, need evaluation information • Pre and post mapping – have the program improved resources • As a community/group activity has the program increased awareness of resources

  15. Exercise • Draw a collective or individual map of local community • Purpose: To assess formal and natural (informal) resources • Color code • Categories • Non-native resources (clinics, counselors) • Safe/neutral places • Healing places • Positive physical resources • Native resources

  16. Reflection on the process • Other applications? Other health areas • Settings? • Parents • Community leaders • Mixed groups or like groups, i.e. just teens or just health care professionals • Can reveal all resources using diverse experiences and perspectives

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