OBAMA Mentoring in action: University of Chester’s project BreakDown/BreakOut looked at volunteers and people involved in community projects who were experiencing significant “dead-ends” in their lives and careers.
This 14 minute video, created on location in the Corviale-Roma community, offers you insight into the substantial capacity building activities in this large disadvantaged community outside Roma – including through video interviews with people in the community and project professionals.
This critical paper is a contribution, based on the project experience and documentation, to the methodological debates on innovation in adult education, especially addressing the involvement and engagement of what is called hard-to-reach adults.
This collection includes the entire raw material created along the capacity building training in the project and includes cases, personal stories, the local teams’ elaborating of those cases and stories – and therefore offers in-depths insight into the development of capacity for community change action.
This open document (to be flexibly expanded) does not offer the step-by-step staircase processes leading to accomplishing a mission, but simply lists some useful or useless ideas for what such missions might look like.
The paper addresses the paramount challenge: how are capacity building among long-term unemployed and innovation be put to work in difficult social and economic contexts, such as in Bistrita Romania and similar communities?
European projects addressing capacity building among long-term unemployed people with less educational background and less social resources is quite challenging, and for many reasons.
However, one of the reasons less recognized is the meeting of very different cultures in such projects.
This paper explains the background to and rationale of the Break Down or Break Out project, including how the project’s capacity building approaches go beyond traditional adult education and traditional empowerment.
This simple presentation takes you through the most important progression steps in the capacity building for taking community action.
Thus it offers you a clear and direct idea about what kind of capacity is needed to take real-life action – and why the step-by-step approach is needed.
This cartoon-style poster has been created to in a highly visual way to inspire long-term unemployed and their trainers and coaches to discuss what taking change action means and what pitfalls you might have to deal with along the way…
We invited the long-term unemployed of our community to meet. We organised free training courses. Most of the long-term unemployed we invited are experienced and skilled in the field of knitting and fashion (both are very strong fields in our territory).
Fantom identified a local passion for reviving traditional crafts. It is a focus for sharing skills,building confidence and creating social enterprises in a country where there has previously been no appropriate infrastructure for this.
Pomona is a group of people who use the skills that they exchange to make presses and scratters from scrap materials to crush waste apples into fresh juice and cider.
The UK project identifies the strength of local and other communities in the area surrounding Chester University in the old county of Cheshire, including the Wirral.
Working with conservationists, community growers, parks friends groups and volunteers to protect local trees in our landscapes. We plan, plant, prune, harvest, advise on the right tree in the right place and warn of threats: new pests, diseases, uncontrolled felling.
The skills are being passed on to volunteers and participants in the projects as a focus for meditation or to encourage easy conversations while being creative. The wood was hazel, apple & cedar, from the work in coppicing or pruning.
Through hard work in the local communities, driven by most dedicated project partners, we learned a lot, and the guidance presented is based on hard work, local experience and in-depth discussions and reflections.