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Georgia State Parent Information and Resource Center (PIRC) |
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PIRC aims to address poverty and illiteracy by encouraging families to realize the benefits of parental involvement and to take advantage of services available that lead to the academic success of children. The goals of this five-year federally funded initiative are to enhance the abilities of parents across the state to participate effectively in their children’s education, and to improve student achievement through expanded and effective use of parental involvement programs. SEED’s Six-Month Stretch methodology and the Journey Mapping evaluation tool are being used to design and evaluate the five-year growth process, as the network attempts to scale its impact from five to 150 counties with a budget that is only doubled.
www.nationalpirc.org/directory/GA.html |
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Illinois' Division of Community Health and Prevention (CHP), under the IL Department of Human Services |
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Beginning in May, 2008, SEED is working with staff support from the Youth Network Council in Illinois to provide the SEED Diagnostic to 100 DHS-CHP-selected community-based youth development agencies working in areas of teen leadership, college prep, alcohol and substance abuse prevention, and pregnancy prevention. Each program will pinpoint high leverage opportunity areas that are ripe for improvement, and become better able to report results. The aggregate analysis will give the Division a much clearer sense of what is happening and what is needed to improve organizational performance and impacts across the State. Under the same $200,000 contract, SEED is also engaging ten promising agencies to enrich their creativity, accountability and effectiveness through use of the Six-Month Stretch. The entire project is being carefully documented and assessed as a model for SEED to potentially reach many more community-based agencies via third-party government funding in the future.
www.dhs.state.il.us/chp/ |
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LEAP (Leadership, Education, and Athletics in Partnership, Inc.) |
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LEAP is a youth development and educational enrichment program based in New Haven, CT. LEAP’s mission is to develop the strengths and talents of young leaders (ages 7-23) who create and implement year-round, community-based programming, designed to achieve positive academic and social outcomes for children living in high poverty urban neighborhoods. LEAP is an AmeriCorps Program. Sponsored by the Starfish Foundation, LEAP will begin a Six-Month Stretch with SEED in December, to expand its Leaders-in-Training Program (LIT), with the intention of doubling the number of the middle and early-high school aged participants.
www.leapforkids.org |
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New Orleans, Baptist Community Ministries (BCM) |
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BCM is a conversion foundation created through the sale of a large hospital in New Orleans. SEED is evaluating and supporting a BCM-funded collaboration across five organizations that provide complementary programming and services to the Algiers Charter Schools (currently five elementary and three high schools in the West Bank of New Orleans). BCM is most interested in the synergy that can be created among these organizations in their continued work.
www.bcm.org |
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Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA) |
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PHEA was created in 2000 to further the development of higher education in Africa. Current foundation partners include The Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Ford Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and The Kresge Foundation. The central office, based at New York University, is applying the Six-Month Stretch to maximize the value of collaboration among the partners, with SEED providing additional, specialized meeting design and facilitation. The work is presently focused in three interrelated areas, to: 1) make possible the procurement of affordable “bandwidth” to universities as they attempt to build information and communication infrastructures, 2) raise capacity among African Universities to attract, develop and retain high quality faculty, and 3) establish infrastructure to support widespread use of e-learning technologies as a means of extending the reach and utility of scarce and specialized resources.
www.foundation-partnership.org/index.php |
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Summer Search |
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Summer Search is a national leadership development program that operates out of seven cities, providing long-term counseling, mentoring, and outdoor summer education experiences to low income high school students. Starting sophomore year, more than 700 students annually take part in weekly mentoring and personal growth opportunities aimed at preparing for college and becoming responsible and altruistic leaders. Thanks to generous support of the Starfish Foundation, 20 national senior management and executive staff are engaged in a Six-Month Stretch to “think nationally, act locally” and improve outcome reporting.
www.summersearch.org |
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ASTEP (Artists Striving to End Poverty) |
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ASETP connects performing artists with children growing up in poverty to awaken the intense joy of creative expression. ASTEP currently has programming in South Africa, India, Florida, and New York City. But many more artists would be thrilled to be involved, and there is no shortage of children who would benefit from such richly intimate connections. SEED is guiding ASTEP to build the organizational capacity and infrastructure necessary to dramatically expand and sustain the reach and depth of the organization’s programming.
www.asteponline.org |
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Infinite Family |
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Infinite Family is responding to the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa by focusing on the 50 million orphaned children who have lost their parents to AIDS. Infinite Family connects American adult mentors (“Net Families”) with vulnerable South African children (“Net Buddies”) for long-term, nurturing relationships. Via a secure, interactive Internet platform, American Net Families communicate weekly with their Net Buddies via email and video conference, and provide ongoing financial support for immediate needs and future dreams. Beginning in 2008, Infinite Family will use the Six-Month Stretch to create strategies for scaling up operations to reach orders of magnitude more children then they can presently serve.
www.infinitefamily.org |
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Trinity Boston Foundation |
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Trinity Boston Foundation is a subsidiary of Trinity Church and home for two programs that began working with SEED this year: Trinity Boston Counseling Center (TBCC) offers mental health services for caregivers and clergy, as well as community members without health insurance. Trinity Excellence for Education Program (TEEP) is a model youth leadership program, serving middle school students through an intensive summer school/day camp and after-school programs. TEEP provides high school students with year-round leadership development, preparing them, in turn, to lead middle school programs. Both projects are using the Six-Month Stretch and Journey Mapping to sharpen their focus and capture better results, contributing hope, healing and community to Boston. The overall aim is to partner and extend ownership of these programs within and beyond the walls of the Trinity Boston Foundation.
www.trinityinspires.org |
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ArtStories, Australia |
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The aim of this start-up initiative is to engage Indigenous communities of Northern Australia in community building via music and other art forms. There is not much there at present: Minimum narrative, mainly being used to keep track contacts and meetings. |
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Capacitar for Kids, Cincinnati, OH |
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This is a school-based pilot project in a small set of Catholic elementary schools focused on students who have witnessed or experienced extreme events (e.g., witnessed a shooting). Students and staff have been introduced to healing touch, meditative movement, and other forms of relaxation and stress reduction (an adaptation of the Capacitar model developed for adults and applied around the world) and practice these on a regular basis. They make event entries to share and rate their experiences. This is the third year of the project, although there are no entries this current school year. |
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Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada |
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A first project aims to train nurses and nursing students in culturally competent therapeutic practices. All nurses and nursing students in the project maintain journals where they share new learning and rate their skill mastery progress.
A second project, the New Graduate Initiative at CAMH, aims to facilitate the transition of the new graduate nurses to competent and confident professional nurses and to increase their commitment
and retention. All program participants maintain journals and make bi-weekly entries to share new learning and rate their skill mastery progress. |
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Chicago Area Project, Youth Development Practitioners, Chicago, IL |
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Youth workers and program administrators in the Chicago Metropolitan Area who are interested in career advancement are encouraged to participate in a five-month certification program. As an integral part of this program, they maintain journals where they share program experiences and personal and professional growth and rate their skill mastery progress. Started in 2002, ten basic and four advanced classes have been conducted so far (with around 30 participants per class). Two new ones are scheduled to begin in February. |
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Childreach Family Center, Kenton, OH |
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Staff keeps case notes and tracks the journeys of their interactions with families referred to their agency. Typically there is evidence of child abuse or neglect and the aim is to see if this family can be kept together. In past years, other programs within this agency have used the application (e.g., teen pregnancy prevention, home visitation). |
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Claritas Institute for Interspiritual Inquiry, Boulder, |
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Over sixty individuals from across the country have signed up for a two-year training program. Its aim is to “provide experiential and theoretical training in spiritual mentoring, drawing on the diverse strengths of the world's wisdom traditions, and to provide a community of learning, inquiry and practice that supports the student's own spiritual formation as well as development of the skills necessary to guide others on their journey.” Each participant maintains a journal and is expected to make regular entries. They also rate their progress toward mastery of key skills. The application is also used to obtain feedback following major events that bring all participants together and for on-going dialogue related to weekly phone conversations of “pods” of eight persons each. |
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Colorado State University, Tenure Tracking, Fort Collins, CO |
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This pilot set was recently set up to provide a place for tenure-track faculty to reflect on their journey toward a tenured position at the university. It provides an opportunity for self-assessment and also an opportunity to indicate barriers that the institution might address. To date, there has only been a training of the coordination team for the project. |
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Columbia College, Chicago, IL |
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Two programs of this Chicago-based institute are using Journey Mapping. “Arts in Youth in Community Development” is using the application to allow students working on community-based arts projects to capture and reflect on their experiences. Their mentors log on separately to reflect on student progress. The “Urban Missions Program” is using a similar application to capture service learning experiences of students and to also receive feedback on the program from community leaders who are providing these service learning opportunities. |
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Families Together in New York State, Albany, NY |
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This parent-run organization of families with children with disabilities will be using Journey Mapping to produce consistent performance data across all the programs in the five regions within the State of New York. Testing is now being conducted of an on-line, reporting scheme. Training has been completed on the use of the system for the programs in the Western Region of the state. |
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Idaho Consortium, Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, Clearwater, Idaho |
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Journey Mapping is being used by staff in three Native American school districts in Idaho to capture key elements of this Federally funded initiative. The focus of the journaling is on behavioral health services provided to children and families (one of the five required components of the grant). |
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Making Connections, San Antonio, TX |
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A multi-year grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation to San Antonio is being used to revitalize a historic, Hispanic-dominant community adjacent to the city center. Journey Mapping is being used by several of the programs within the initiative to track and report on their leadership development efforts. |
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Montpelier to Thailand Project, Montpelier, VT |
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This project takes a group of students from the Montpelier Schools to Thailand each year for two-weeks to experience that culture first-hand. In advance of the trip, the students learn some Thai language and learn about the culture. Journey Mapping will be used for the first time with the current group of students to allow them to keep journals of their experiences leading up to the visit and their post-visit impressions. This application is being viewed by the school district as a pilot for possible use in all its service learning efforts. |
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Noble Purpose, Chicago, IL |
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Talks are underway regarding using Journey Mapping to capture the experiences of Noble Purpose participants as they journey through different aspects of the program. A pilot site has been set up and used to test the concept and explore options. |
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Pathways to Prevention, Queensland, Australia |
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“Pathways to Prevention” is an extensive curriculum developed in Australia for working with high-risk youth who are likely to follow criminal paths or engage in violent behavior without timely intervention. The project leader in Queensland is testing the usefulness of Journey Mapping for tracking work with targeted families. The heroic journey framework is being used in association with narrative accounts of family progress. |
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Project ASK, Safe Schools/Healthy Students, Orange County, CA |
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Journey Mapping is being used by all staff to capture their training activities, service provision, and community building efforts associated with this federally funded initiative. |
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Revitalization Project, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA |
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This project funded the US Department of Housing and Urban Development aims to improve the quality of neighborhoods surrounding Morehouse College. Journey Mapping is being used by Morehouse College students assigned to projects in these neighborhoods to both capture their own experiences and to report on changes underway in the neighborhoods. |
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Salt Lake County Aging Services, Salt Lake City, UT |
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Journey Mapping is being used to capture feedback from clients and staff regarding the nutrition programs (meals provided to seniors) at 16 senior centers in the area. Plans call for extending the application to other aspects of center programming, such as educational and fitness classes for seniors. |
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Shreveport-Bosier Community Development, Shreveport, LA |
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This award-winning, community renewal program aims to bring healthy life back into some of the worse areas of Shreveport (high crime, drug use, deteriorating housing, etc.). They are using a unique, evangelism model that centers on planting themselves within these communities and raising hope and spirit while providing opportunities for the youth of these areas. Journey Mapping has been
used for several years by the community activist who moves into that area with her/his family to capture progress in transforming the neighborhood. |
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Texas Christian University |
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A new set of curricula are being introduced for nursing and nutrition students that builds around service learning projects. All the students in these programs will be making weekly entries of their experiences and progress toward skill mastery. Mentors will also be making monthly entries related to their observations and conversations with the students. |
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The 52nd Street Project, New York, NY |
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This is an after-school homework help and mentoring program. The staff person responsible for the program maintains active journals on all children participating in the program and charts their skill development. |
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Tri-Health, Parish Nursing, Cincinnati, OH |
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This is the original and still running Journey Mapping application. A team of parish nurses keep track of all the events they conduct in the Greater Cincinnati area. They write short descriptions and rate the success of the event using pre-set criteria. |
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Vermont Leadership Institute, Burlington, VT |
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New representatives to the State legislature of Vermont participate in a year-long leadership development program conducted by the Snelling Center. The current class is using Journey Mapping to reflect on the training they are receiving, on their mastery of key skills, and on insights gained. |
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Volunteers of America, Los Angeles, CA |
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This major provider of services in the Los Angeles area has been using Journey Mapping for several years to allow its clients (recovering alcoholics and drug addicts) to reflect on their experiences in the program and to self-assess their progress toward recovery. |
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Women’s Vision Foundation, Pebbles in the Pond, Denver, CO |
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This is a support group of women executives in Colorado exploring the glass ceiling and what to do about it. They receive training in dialogue and other techniques aimed at increasing their abilities to be successful. All participants maintain journals where they reflect on their learning process. |
