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Asset-based Community Engagement

  1. UNO
  2. Service Learning Academy
  3. Service Learning Academy Priority Areas
  4. Asset-based Community Engagement

  • Anti-Poverty Initiative
  • Redlining
  • Asset-based Community Engagement
  • Microaggressions
  • VISTA Anti-Poverty Work in a Virtual World

The Service Learning Academy (SLA) applies an asset-based lens to service learning and community engagement work.

This means that faculty, students, and community partners collaborating with the SLA are encouraged to consider the following: ¹

  • Value the assets and strengths in the community
  • Actively engage everyone in the learning
  • Cultivate cultural effectiveness to encourage positive interactions with diverse communities
  • Work cooperatively
  • Build reciprocal relationships
  • Listen and learn from each other, and
  • Embrace all participants as capable of making valuable contributions

The below video explores what it means to have a service learning mindset by defining cultural humility and asset-based community engagement.

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Service Learning Mindset: Cultural Humility and Asset-Based Community Engagement


References

1. Deborah J. Hess, Hilreth Lanig & Winston Vaughan (2007). Educating for Equity and Social Justice: A Conceptual Model for Cultural Engagement, Multicultural Perspectives, 9:1, 32-39, DOI: 10.1080/15210960701334037

Service Learning Academy Priority Areas

  • Anti-Poverty Initiative
  • Redlining
  • Asset-based Community Engagement
  • Microaggressions
  • VISTA Anti-Poverty Work in a Virtual World

In Action

Stephanie Diaz, past AmeriCorps Member, and other participants at the Service Learning Academy's annual Seminar clean garden beds at a community partner site. Each year during the Seminar, participants visit community partner sites, learn about community assets and strengths, and serve alongside community partners with community growth in mind.

Get Involved

If you would like to learn more about asset-based community engagement, please complete this interest area survey online.

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