The Nashman Center's Deepening Partnerships events connect students, faculty, and community organizations in dialogue about our shared aims. The aim of Deepening Partnerships meetings is to hear each other's perspectives on the elements of an ideal campus-community partnership and to set goals together for improved collective processes. We will practice active and empathetic listening, build relationships, and honor our collective knowledge, experience and perspectives as we co-create a positive partnership for all involved.
This meeting will focus on campus-community partnerships for Youth Development.
In advance of this event, we ask all participants to familiarize themselves with the existing youth development partnerships, so everyone will have a sense of who is at the table.
Agenda
- Welcome and introductions
- Sharing in pairs: Come prepared to tell a story of a peak moment when you were engaged in a campus-community service partnership. What are the details of that partnership that created such a good experience?
- Collective analysis: What are the important elements of our campus-community partnership moving forward?
- Goal setting: What concrete goals can we work collectively to achieve in the coming year?
Invited Community Organizations
Little Friends For Peace
YWCA National Capital Area
GW Programs
engageDC: Co-curricular Service
This Nashman Center program engages student-led cohorts of students in weekly service with local organizations. Students do both both direct service and capacity-building projects as directed by the community partner staff. Youth development related engageDC partners include: GW ArtReach at THEARC, the Latin American Youth Center, the Latino Student Fund, Little Friends for Peace, and the YWCA National Capital Area
2022-2023 Knapp Fellows
Courses engaging students in youth development related community engaged scholarship
Several GW courses regularly engage students with our community partners in service projects that connect to coursework. Some courses have students serve directly with community members (tutoring for example). Other courses require students to complete capacity building projects as identified by the community partner staff. Some of these have involved grant writing, and creating workshops and toolkits on teen mental health.
The faculty and key students from these courses have been invited to join this Deepening Partnerships meeting:
COMM 1041: Interpersonal Communication
Instructor: Abbie Weiner
HSSJ 2170: Professional Relationships and Human Services
Instructor: Linda-Jeanne Mack
HSSJ 2171: Child & Adolescent Development
Instructor: Sangeeta Prasad
HSSJ 2177: Social Justice and Public Policy
Instructors: Erica Walls and Kimberly Aldridge
HSSJ 3100W: Program Planning and Evaluation
Instructor: Erica Walls
PUBH 2117: Service Learning in Public Health
Instructor: Sara Wilenski
UW 1020: Writing and Social Justice
Instructor: Phyllis Ryder
BADM 4001: Business Leader Launch
Instructor: Wendy Wagner
